My PC Build - PROBLEMS!

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Tony Williams

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Well I haven't always had these problems but suddenly I formatted due to a large amount of spyware. I went for XP Home SP1, installed my software, FINE.

Now I have two problems.

FIRST ** Sometimes (happens ramdom I think) my computer goes into a blackout stage normally when I idle I have TWO ADSL lights ONE should be flickering (downloading/uploading) but isn't and the other should be solid, however they are BOTH solid and when ever I swich my monitor on I have no signal input.

SECOND ** Everytime I boot I get an error messege "FAILURE BOOT DRIVE, PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK" and my O/system wont boot, only thing to do is insert my XP HOME disk reboot and when it says "Press anykey to continue" leave it and then it boots.

I think the FIRST one is my PSU, might be or drivers!
The SECOND, I don't know why?

MY PC SPECS are ....
AMD Venice 3000+
MSI K8N Neo4
Seasonic 350W PSU (bundled with Arctic T1 case)
Asus 6600GT
80 GB Seagate
160 GB D/Ster
 
1. Sounds like its going into sleep/hibernation mode and it stops monitoring the keyboard/mouse so you can get it out.

2. When you reformated which drive did the boot.ini files end up on.
If it went on your secondary drive and it looks to the primary one to boot from then it cannot find the correct boot info hence the error message.

One way to check this is to swop which hard drive it boots from in the bios.

Luck.......... :D
 
First: In the BIOS enable "USB Keyboard Support", "USB Keyboard Support", and "Wake on USB". You should then be able to wake the PC by clicking the mouse or pressing a key.

Second: I also had this problem. What happened was, when I installed Windows, I had two HDD's connected, one was SATA that I wanted to be used as the primary, and one was IDE which I wanted to use as storage. However, the Windows installer assigned the IDE drive to C: and the SATA to D:. So when I tried to boot from the SATA drive, I got the same problem. You probably just need to set the BIOS to boot from your system drive, but if you have the same problem I have (wrong drive assigned to C:), the only way to fix that is to reinstall Windows with only the primary drive connected.


EDIT-Okay, that smilie was not meant to be there, I actually typed C : ). Stupid HTML tags!
 
Take out the drive you dont want to install your os on, if need be, install windows, enjoy.
 
HOCP4ME

I love you! (well don't love)

That's MY problem the IDE (Media) is C and my O/S one is D!

I'll fix that, I forget how to change the letters now.

As to my first problem I have not had it again.
 
Is it best to maybe install OS with one drive in and then install the second later or will that cause problems as well?
 
Tony Williams said:
HOCP4ME

I love you! (well don't love)

That's MY problem the IDE (Media) is C and my O/S one is D!

I'll fix that, I forget how to change the letters now.

As to my first problem I have not had it again.
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well.. as far as I'm concerned OS won't let you change the letter of the partition it's installed on.. partition magic can theoretically do that, but the OS will most likely not boot after change..
 
Okay, say I was to "format" how would I make sure my boot was under C?

Would I unplug my IDE (Media) drive?

The other problem I have not had again.
 
Tony Williams said:
Okay, say I was to "format" how would I make sure my boot was under C?
Would I unplug my IDE (Media) drive.
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Yes.
With your sata drive as the only hard drive in your system, when you reformat it, it will be switch to C:

The only thing you have to watch out for is when you reformat a C: drive that it does not change it letter.

You IDE drive will probably show up as the E: drive when you reconnect it but with that drive you will be able to change the drive letter.

Luck........... :D
 
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