I have been reading on the forums, and I didn’t see a problem quite like mine. Here are my problems with system config.
Here are my current components
AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939
MSI K8T Neo 2 Socket 939 Motherboard
MSI Nvidia 6800GT 256MB
1Gig of Geil 400mhz PC3200
Zalman CPU cooler
Western Digital SATA Raptor 10k rpm 74 gig
Thermaltake Butterfly 480W PSU w/ Active PFC
NEC DVD Burner
Okay, I am having a tough tough time trying to get this new PC to boot.
First problem:
The motherboard won’t boot if my CMOS jumper is on Pins 1+2. The manual says to have the jumper on pins 1+2 to keep the information. However, I get no power if I have the jumper on the pins. If I move to pins 2+3, the PC will boot, but the first screen says No Bios Detected, next screen, detects the hard drive. Then it brings up the motherboard screen to let me pick if I want to bring up my Setup. If I do so, I can access the the bios and cmos choices, but when I go to save and exit, it tries to reboot and to no luck. Then I have to move the pins back, lose all the information, move them back to 2+3 and then it works. Any ideas on what I can do to stop doing that?
Second problem:
When I can to the motherboard screen, I can pick to continue with default settings, and then I can get to my boot sequences menu. With that, I can put in my windows disk. and let it go through Windows Setup. However, once I get to the screen that asks me with I want to install a fresh copy of windows, it says it cannot pick up any hard drive. Do I need to install RAID drivers for a single SATA drive? I know that sounds ridicilous, but I am honestly out of ideas. I have 4 SATA ports on my motherboard, but I have the SATA cable plugged into SATA 1 input. The motherboard is picking up the hard drive before I reach there. Please please, any help, I am at the end of my knowledge, almost thinking of scraping it all, send it back and start over.
