DaRuSsIaMaN
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Seriously, WTF!!! How is this possible?? This should be the simplest thing ever....
I set my bios to have CD-ROM for first boot device. Duh. I have my winxp cd in the cd-rom drive. My bios shows the cd-rom, so apparently it recognizes it. And yet it completely refuses to acknowledge my Win XP cd at all! It goes through the first boot screen, where it shows the cpu, memory test and says at the bottom to hit Del to enter bios. You know the one. That screen vanishes, it goes black momentarily, then the next thing that appears is a mostly black screen, except that it says at the top:
"Sil 3112A SATALink Host Controller BIOS Version 4.2.00"
"Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Silicon Image, Inc.
"Primary Channel: SAMSUNG HD103SJ"
And it has the blinking cursor thing (like in DOS) at the far right. And that's it. It just stops there. At no point was there any message like "attempting to boot off cd-rom" or anything like that, like it does on my other comp. By the way, I do not have anything installed on the HD. Hence me trying to boot off the cd, so I can install winxp. It looks like it just bypasses the boot off cdrom attempt and goes straight to booting off HD. Finding nothing on HD, it just stops. That's my theory. Is it correct?
My motherboard is a gigabyte 7N-400 Pro. That "primary channel" message indicates my HD that is plugged in. It is an SATA hd. I did a little search, and apparently someone else had the issue with the same board version 2. But the thread just died; no one gave a solution.
Help would be awesome
I set my bios to have CD-ROM for first boot device. Duh. I have my winxp cd in the cd-rom drive. My bios shows the cd-rom, so apparently it recognizes it. And yet it completely refuses to acknowledge my Win XP cd at all! It goes through the first boot screen, where it shows the cpu, memory test and says at the bottom to hit Del to enter bios. You know the one. That screen vanishes, it goes black momentarily, then the next thing that appears is a mostly black screen, except that it says at the top:
"Sil 3112A SATALink Host Controller BIOS Version 4.2.00"
"Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Silicon Image, Inc.
"Primary Channel: SAMSUNG HD103SJ"
And it has the blinking cursor thing (like in DOS) at the far right. And that's it. It just stops there. At no point was there any message like "attempting to boot off cd-rom" or anything like that, like it does on my other comp. By the way, I do not have anything installed on the HD. Hence me trying to boot off the cd, so I can install winxp. It looks like it just bypasses the boot off cdrom attempt and goes straight to booting off HD. Finding nothing on HD, it just stops. That's my theory. Is it correct?
My motherboard is a gigabyte 7N-400 Pro. That "primary channel" message indicates my HD that is plugged in. It is an SATA hd. I did a little search, and apparently someone else had the issue with the same board version 2. But the thread just died; no one gave a solution.
Help would be awesome