First build problems, JMicron??

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Space_Coyote

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Well I got everything assembled alright, and was nicely surprised when it fired-up first time. Not soon after though I get a JMicron detecting drives message (mentions RAID but that may always be there). It hangs there for about a minute, and then says to insert a system disk.

I have the XP CD in the drive, but it won't run it. I can get into BIOS after the hang, and have tried disabling everything except CD-ROM. I am using my two 80GB drives that I used to have in RAID (IP35-E doesn't have RAID). Could that be the problem? Do I need to somehow destroy the raid before I can use them individually?
 
Well I guess it's not a RAID problem, it's the CD-ROM. I swapped another drive in, and it gets rid of the hang. It still won't run XP, even though the CD-ROM is the only device in the boot order.

"Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press Enter"

HELP!
 
I tried another cable and it's the same. Whatever drive I change it to, it recognizes fine but won't load XP. How can I run memtest when I can't boot?

All I've done with the Ballistix so far is change the voltage to 2.2v, I haven't messed with the timings. Could that be the problem? All I know is it's 4-4-4-15, but the BIOS settings have 9 values to assign. Should I mess with that, or leave it as SPD?
 
Leave the mem timings at AUTO (SPD).

Memtest doesnt need an OS, its a small app that loads into your RAM to test only your RAM. Google for "memtest86 +", download the ISO, burn it to a CD, and see if your system will boot to it. If not, you need a new drive, lol.
 
Thanks, the Memtest CD boots fine and there are no memory issues, so that’s something at least. I can’t figure out why XP won’t boot though. I lost my original some time ago so I’m using a copy, but I have done countless installs before with it. In fact, if I take the optical drive with the CD and plug them into my old Athlon system, it boots right up. I can’t figure it out.

I’m going to ask my bud and see if I can get his original XP CD, use my key, and see if that works. That will be a day or two though, is there something else I can try in the meantime?
 
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