Hello all, need some help, please. Just built a new system and cannot get Windows XP Sp1 to load from the SATA HDD. After I run the initial setup and formatting, windows states “This portion of the installation has finished, PC will reboot in 15 seconds, setup will continue after reboot.” Once the PC reboots it boots from the CD and brings me right back to the inital setup and asks if I want to setup windows on this partition or create a new one, etc….Almost as if the first run never took. If I remove the CD, change the boot sequence to HDD first, the system just hangs after post, requesting “Boot from CD.”
My config is as follows:
AMD 64 3000+ FSB integrated into chip
1GB DDR400 PC3200
GigaByte Mobo Socket 939 w/sata connectors
160GB Seagate SATA HDD
Also, if I remove the SATA drive and insert my old 20GB IDE PATA HDD, which has Windows XP already installed on it, my new system still will not load it. After post it states – “We apologize for the incoinveince but Windows was unable to load, please boot in safe mode or last known good config etc.” And when I select one of these troubleshooting modes the screen quickly fills up with lines and lines of text and then reboots. This has me very confused because I was hoping my problem was just with the SATA drive but it appears the problem could be elsewhere.
Any suggestions??
Thank you in advance for help.