I recently bought this motherboard along with a new AMD 64 4000+ processor as a bundle to upgrade my PC. I am running Windwos XP Pro, and I had to buy two new sticks of PNY 512 ram to work with the motherbaord.
I followed all my manual instructions for connecting the hardware, and everything went smoothly until it came to connecting the IDE devices. I was confused about how to connect my CDRW and DVD drives considering I was only supllied with a “CDROM” IDE cable, and a “HDD” IDE cable.
My first Problem is that I cannot get the system to boot normally of course. When i do get it to boot in safe mode, I can only access my DVD drive, and when I attempt to launch the driver instalation cd for my motherboard and CPU, a message is displayed that reads: “Can’t Execute Kernel Mode Driver Service.” I have no clue what this is referring to.
When I enter bios, I can see both my drives listed (CDRW and DVD), and the Maxtor 160GB SATA hardrive are connected. I simply do not understand why I cannot boot from my Hardrive and why my CDRW and DVD drives won’t work in a master and slave config.
If anyone has any advice at all, I would appreciate it, I am completely stumped and frustrated so any help would be great.
Thanks a lot guys.
