Hello all! I’m really at a dead end here so please bare with me.
Ok Saturday morning when I turned on my PC everything was running fine. 30 Minutes later my PC flashed a Blue Screen, and then crashed. When I tried to reboot it keep repeating this cycle. It will get to the part where you see Windows and the loading progress bar, and the blue screen flashes again then it reboots.
I figured that my 80GB hd has finally given out on me, so I took a 40 GB from the office to see will it work. Not to my suprise the same cycle continued on the ASUS IDE port. So, I bought a new Maxtor SATA/300 for my ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe Mobo, but I’m difficulty on setting it up. Of course some of us knows that the M2N has only one IDE port, so I have my DVD drives on Siig Ultra/133 controller. But for some reason I cant get Windows to boot up a fresh install on either the Siig Ports nor the main board IDE port.
When the DVD drives are on the Siig, the bios system see them as Lite-Ons (which is correct), however on the main board it only sees them as CD-ROMs. I’ve been back and forth trying to get this SATA drive to install and wondering do I have to have a working HD with XP SP2 for it to run? Or do I need to replace this OEM MoBo with a retail one that comes with the drivers. I have one HD with Windows on it, but the blue screen won’t allow me to get into Windows.
Everything show up in the Bios System just need to know what steps to take to get this thing working again.
Please Help
