Topic: Like everyone else: Building My First PC

[Flanjeuk]

Well, i finally finished. its all built... BUT

evrythin worked fine, i installed XP fine, and wen all that was done i restarted and it won't boot from the hard disk. i partitioned the drive and made a C: and an E: and installed XP onto the E: drive, i think that might be causing it but i dont know how to fix it because it won't boot from a CD. any help asap please

[Sandra]

Have you reset the boot sequence in the bios  

[Flanjeuk]

not sure wot u mean. i changed it to:
first: hard disk
second: CDROM
Third: Floppy

i didnt reset the CMOS with the jumper cos im not sure how. i just formatted it and made 1 drive, so its on the C: drive now, and evrythin went fine until i had 2 restart and it wouldnt boot from the harddisk

[Flanjeuk]

If anyone can help who has msn messenger, please add me because its easier to speak over msn: hairyogurt@hotmail.com

dont ask why i chose the email.
i am stupid.

[Sandra]

Thats an unusual sequence, usually its floppy, hard drive then cd or floppy, cd then hard drive.
Does it say HDD 0 or HDD 1 or IDE 0 or IDE 1 when you select your hard drive in the bios or just say C  

[Sandra]

As an update, I have been trying to help Flanjeuk out with this problem for the last few days on msn messenger, without any success unfortunately.
However I was talking to a friend tonight who has experienced similar problems with an MSI mobo that has SATA and IDE drives.
He found that if the BIOS was set at dsefault then it wont boot from an IDE drive.
It needs to be set up correctly in BIOS to boot properly.
I cant remember how he had his set but if you play around with disabling the SATA and other settings relating to the drives then you should get it to boot from the IDE drive

[Flanjeuk]

FINALLY!!

I'm on my new PC now.

I bought a 120GB Wester Digital drive and it all works now. Cant wait for the new graphics card now!!

thanks for everybody's help!