Motherboard and hard drive vs. XP

Seany1212 · Dec 30, 2007, 05:19 PM

My dads having a difficult time putting XP onto his computer after having his motherboard flashed. He will insert the xp boot disc once he starts the computer and the boot disc begins loading the drivers will begin to install so that he can format the hard disk, but before all of them are complete there will be a flash of BSOD then the computer will restart. I thought this could have been a memory problem but he said the motherboard and memory worked fine with XP before the bios update, then i thought it could have been a bad flash but you get the usual bios beep when it loads. Any ideas, and how do you set up a sata as master and IDE as slave? just set the IDE to slave and put the sata in?

cdawall · Dec 30, 2007, 05:20 PM

you cant install XP to SATA i thought?

zCexVe · Dec 30, 2007, 05:37 PM

You can install XP to SATA or PATA.
Check your mobos condensors.See whether one is blasted/damaged or increased in volume.Usually it will create these failures.

Seany1212 · Dec 30, 2007, 05:51 PM

sorted

ide was being a pain in the bum seeing as it looks older than jesus. took it out put in SATA and installing XP as we speak, cheers

GLeN · Dec 30, 2007, 06:01 PM

Glad to know it worked

Does xp need a floppy to install sata.

cdawall · Dec 30, 2007, 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GLeN

Glad to know it worked

Does xp need a floppy to install sata.

honestly i found the easiest way to do the whole install thing was tp put it on a IDE and copy it over to my SATA after it was installed with all the correct drivers it also left me with a full backup of my system

MadCow · Dec 30, 2007, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GLeN

Glad to know it worked

Does xp need a floppy to install sata.

I didn't need a floppy for my old nforce 4 SLI board, but this ATI chipset board doesn't work unless I force the SATA controller into PATA mode, even with a floppy.

Dec 30, 2007, 05:19 PM	#1
Seany1212 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: England, UK Posts: 443 (0.18/day) Thanks: 18 Thanked 13 Times in 11 Posts System Specs	Motherboard and hard drive vs. XP My dads having a difficult time putting XP onto his computer after having his motherboard flashed. He will insert the xp boot disc once he starts the computer and the boot disc begins loading the drivers will begin to install so that he can format the hard disk, but before all of them are complete there will be a flash of BSOD then the computer will restart. I thought this could have been a memory problem but he said the motherboard and memory worked fine with XP before the bios update, then i thought it could have been a bad flash but you get the usual bios beep when it loads. Any ideas, and how do you set up a sata as master and IDE as slave? just set the IDE to slave and put the sata in? __________________ “The Earth will heat up like a mofo, then cool down to a point where you would be reaching 10GHz overclocks on stock air cooling... at the equator.” -hat Increase the population of TPU City: http://tpu.myminicity.com

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Dec 30, 2007, 05:37 PM	#3
zCexVe Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Los Angeles,CA Posts: 379 (0.17/day) Thanks: 26 Thanked 33 Times in 33 Posts	You can install XP to SATA or PATA. Check your mobos condensors.See whether one is blasted/damaged or increased in volume.Usually it will create these failures. __________________ fEEl tHe DiffERenCe!!! “Microsoft Windows: A sixty four bit graphic cover up to a thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit CPU which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand a one bit of competition .” [img disabled]http://www.hwbot.org/signature.img?t=1&uid=10404&iehack=.jpg[/IMG]

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Dec 30, 2007, 05:51 PM	#4
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