Recent content by mrdead1313

Def not true. The secondary drive has had 7/8 for a few years now running perfectly fine w no work arounds. So back to the topic.. I got it! Had to reset the bios a few times and switched to IDE and I'm good! Now my next step is learning how to get my wifi adapter setup in zorin os 9 and I'm...

You all are great! So check this out.. I burned a new ISO of Zorin 9 before I left for work today. Told my lady 'whatever you do DONT TURN OFF THE PC!' And what does she do?... She apparently turned it back on and wanted to go on the net to look at her tmz stuff. You know the news that...

Awesome I'll def get a new ISO tonight after work and try that out. Thanks for your willingness to help me out. There has to be something that'll fix this and I'm sure I'll beat my head against a wall when I find how simple it is lol Thanks a lot!

Yes it's a copy of Ubuntu. Used it before but can't get it to work this time. Also tried Windows 7 ultimate disk. Still nothing. Think I'm gonna make a new copy of both

This is the screen I get when I only have the optical hooked up

Well here's my update: Successfully installed XP after switching to IDE mode. Running great. So from there I decided to unhook the secondary hdd while in windows (maybe a bad idea but I had to see) and stayed in windows no problem. Installed the drivers from the asus CDROM and rebooted as...

Well I did this just now and it's finally installing windows xp! So I'm going to install this and see what happens from there. I'll keep you guys posted. Hopefully it was the whole issue. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Thank you. I kind of looked into that info last night but didn't have time to really research it very deep. I have a 3 hour window after work so I kinda cram in what I can and try a bit more in the am. This is all fairly new to me since the last machine I had was crap. This is my first mid-high...

Awesome. I'll try but I've reset my bios to default already I believe. Can't hurt to try again. But yeah when u get some info definitely get back to me! Thanks for all your help man. This is such a weird problem

I'm thinking American megatrends

Not too sure off the top of my head. I'll have to check when I get home but it's the asus crosshair v formula (not formula-z). I haven't tried unplugging the sata connectors on both hdds yet but will give it a shot as soon as I'm out of work. What should I look for within the bios if that...

Thanks, but will this solve the booting issue I'm having with booting from cd or USB? That's my main concern because I have old and cluttered installations from a different hard drive in the system right now. Only way I've been able to do anything at all with the machine since this xp disaster.

I actually did try to go in that order. Wipe out the hdd completely and install xp but that's when I discovered I just can't boot from any device other than the hdd. The flash drive and dvdrom work 100%. I'm stumped. Never had this problem before. It has to be something little that I'm...

I don't know what the problem is, but I tried to install a dual boot with Windows 7 and XP (7 as the main OS of course) to play some old games without using emulators. So, I go ahead and begin the XP installation and at the restart it blue screens and can't finish it. Don't remember the exact...

Thanks everyone. I'll have the crosshair in the next day or 2. Don't know what the hell is going on with the other board since I bought from a lame seller on ebay that's refusing to post tracking to be sure he's not 'scammed'. Whatever. Nonetheless I'm more excited to get the crosshair anyway. I...