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by david-kolevski

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I rectenly bought myself a computer from an old friend of mine,
the specs are:
E1200 dual core celeron
P5VD2-VM SE motherboard
1GB Corsir 667 MHz ram
LG GH20NS10 DVDRAM SATE Drive
Seagate 160GB IDE Drive

All hardware is reconised and configured in bios. Set boot priority to LG GH20NS10 sata frive

Having problems installing any operating systems on it. Eg. Windows setup files loads, then for no reason it decides to hangup, stuck at some setup file and sometimes it goes through the setup phase and then decides that some dll is missing from the cd.

It happens on all windows operating systems

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by thechas

Are you pressing F6 and installing the SATA driver for the motherboard?

Even though your setup target is not a SATA drive, since your source drive is a SATA drive, you need to load the proper SATA driver.

Also, is the hard drive also a boot drive?
After the first phase of Windows setup, you need to boot off of the destination drive and not the drive with the CD or DVD in it.

1 other thing, I have seen DLL file issues when the system RAM was either bad or not fully compatible with the motherboard.
You may need to try different RAM to get this to work. Or, at least remove and reseat the RAM you have.

Chas

by oh smeg

Optical Drive then HDD and the rest left blank.

As Chas has already said you most likely need the SATA Driver to allow the Optical Drive to be accessed to install the Windows.

If you are not seeing an option to Format the IDE HDD the install process is not being correctly read by the system.

Also as this is a Dual Chanel CPU you should have 2 sticks of RAM fitted to the Dual Sockets for best performance. If you only have 1 Stick of RAM the system will be slowed than it should be when correctly configured.

Col

by david-kolevski

Very strange, F6 wont allow me to enter to install the drivers needed for the DVD sata drive.
Any other way round this problem?

by oh smeg

Are prompted to insert the SATA Driver. The system doesn't immediately ask for the Driver but continues working till it needs one and then asks you to insert a Driver depending on the version of Windows you are using this message will be different but it should be asking for a SCSI or RAID Driver and you need to insert this into the A Drive copied to the root of a Floppy that is not in a folder.

This may prove better make a Slipstreamed Install Disc with the SATA Driver using nLite. Just remember to read the Destructions on line before logging off.

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

I personally find that if I make a ISO Image of the completed Slipstreamed Disc it's easier to burn to CD but that maybe just me.

Col

by Former member

The posts on here give the correct answers to your problem, so do a full format/wipe of your drive and then follow the other posts answers.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

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