I have just put together a pc build and I have a problem.
I am trying to install windows XP and it freezes just after the statement “press F6 to install raid drivers”. The white bar at the bottom goes blank. I have left it for 10 minutes+ to see if it changes. This drive is a sata drive.
I then swapped this blank sata drive for one which had windows installed on it, but this was an IDE drive. As the drive boots up to start windows, the system restarts. The drive was set to master on channel 0, and the CD drive was set to master on channel 1.
The setup:Intel Pentium D 945 (new)
Asrock Dual-vsta mobo (new)
1 gig crucial ram 553
450W PSU (new)
6600GT AGP card
The system seems to be adequatly cool.
It seems that the system crashes whenever the hard drives are attempted to be read/ written to. Both drives were fully detected in the BIOS.
Any ideas why this might happen?
Many thanks
