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Jerrin

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Hi All,

Just build a new system and I am unable to get it to install Vista. After posting, the machine goes to a black screen with a white flashing cursor and will not read from the Dvd drive. If I put a new disc in the drive will flash a few times and then stop. Nothing happens.

If I try to use a different boot device, same thing.


The parts I bought were:

VGA VISIONTEK 900244 HD4870 512M
PSU SEASONIC|SS-650HT 650W RT
DVD BURN LG|GH22NS30 22X SATA
CPU COOLER XIGMATEK|HDT-S1283 R
MB FOXCONN A7DA-S AM2+ 790GX
MEM 2Gx2|OCZ OCZ2RPR10664GK
CPU AMD|PH X4 9950 2.6G AM2+
HD 640G|WD 7K 16M WD6400AAKS
MS WIN VISTA HM PREM SP1 64BIT

Any ideas as to what might be wrong and/or how to fix it?
 
Did you try booting with another bootable disc? (XP or a Linux Live disc)
Did you try another cable?
Try different modes for the SATA controller (IDE, mainly).
 
When you say cable, do you mean are you referring to the SATA cable? The only IDE stuff I saw was under the bios and my choices were something like native ide or legacy ide. Is that what you are referring to?
 
Jerrin said:
When you say cable, do you mean are you referring to the SATA cable? The only IDE stuff I saw was under the bios and my choices were something like native ide or legacy ide. Is that what you are referring to?
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Yes he's referencing to the SATA cable. Try different SATA cables if you can. And yes he referring to the BIOs options. Set it to legacy IDE and see if it works then. If it's already legacy IDE, then switch to native IDE.
 
Try setting your SATA controller to AHCI mode in your BIOS... You may have that option.
 
I do have AHCI as an option. Does my drive support that? I didn't see it mentioned, but then again documentation was very sparse.

Again, I can post fine and it sees my HD and dvd writer, but when it tries to boot off either the dvd drive or the HD, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left of the screen. It does this whether or not I have a disc in the drive.
 
Try enabling AHCI for your SATA, it won't hurt. My system wouldn't load the OS unless I put it in AHCI mode.
 
Everything thats been said so far will not harm your system. Without trying anything, you won't get any further.
 
Again, I can post fine and it sees my HD and dvd writer, but when it tries to boot off either the dvd drive or the HD, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left of the screen. It does this whether or not I have a disc in the drive.
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Even if your SATA is in the wrong mode, it will still detect your drives. But, you will never get to your OS load screen.
 
First off, just want to say thank you for everyone's help. I had previously been told to reset the CMOS. I did so, but in the process I had to remove my graphics card, and now I am unable to see the post. I seem to have lost video somehow.... :confused:
 
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