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Nvidia boot agent

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GreySkyMan

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So I put in my MSI K8N NEO Platinum, and my AMD 64 3400+, and when I boot up, it will say "Boot from CD..." and then a few seconds later it will go to Nvidia boot agent and a bunch of other crap, and at the end something like, "Media test failure insert system disk and hit Enter""

As I understand it the Nvidia boot agent is the network card? Why would it be booting from there?
 
Probably because you have it set to boot from Network (or maybe "Other Device"?) in the BIOS somewhere.
 
Stiletto One said:
Probably because you have it set to boot from Network (or maybe "Other Device"?) in the BIOS somewhere.
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Primary boot device is HDD and then CDROM. Even when I switch them, same problem. :confused:
 
Read your manual for the proper way to set the boot options. It's trying to boot from the NIC because it's not finding any other suitable boot devices.
 
djnes said:
Read your manual for the proper way to set the boot options. It's trying to boot from the NIC because it's not finding any other suitable boot devices.
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Even if it recognizes the IDE devices?
 
Well, you DID install Windows on it, right?

Anyway, is it a Western Digital drive? If so, REMOVE the master/slave/CS jumper if it's by itself on the channel. My computer went trippy when I tried running with just one hard drive on the channel but left the jumper in.
 
Stiletto One said:
Well, you DID install Windows on it, right?

Anyway, is it a Western Digital drive? If so, REMOVE the master/slave/CS jumper if it's by itself on the channel. My computer went trippy when I tried running with just one hard drive on the channel but left the jumper in.
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Yeah it is a WD drive, I'll try that now.

edit: And yes Windows has been installed on it.
 
The jumper was off to begin with. I then put everything on its own IDE channel with jumper in. No good. :(
 
Stiletto One said:
Well, you DID install Windows on it, right?

Anyway, is it a Western Digital drive? If so, REMOVE the master/slave/CS jumper if it's by itself on the channel. My computer went trippy when I tried running with just one hard drive on the channel but left the jumper in.
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I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe with an WD HD (with the jumper on CS) but I haven't have that problem.
 
First thing's first, some basic ground rules on IDE drives especially WD drives. These rules assume that you have the cable plugged in properly to the drive. When you're looking inside the computer with the keyboard, mouse and other ports on your left and the front of the case on your right, the red stripe should be facing towards you. Also, one end is plugged into the motherboard and the other 1 or 2 into drives. I've seen some people plug the middle connecter into the motherboard.

Connector 1 WD drive
In this case, remove the jumper so the drive is set as single

Connector 1 WD Drive Connector 2 CD/DVD drive
The WD drive should have a jumper on the pins for MAster, the CDROM on the pins for Slave. If they both have the jumper on the same setting (both Master or Slave) you'll have problems. If there's no jumper on the WD in this case, the CDROM will not detect properly


First question, where was this hard drive BEFORE it was installed in this system?
Second question, when you installed the drive, did you install WD's software like EZ-BIOS?

The fact that the NIC boot utility is comming up is undeniably because the motherboard isn't finding boot information from the CDROM or the hard drive.
 
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