Hard Drive wont boot after installation of new SATA DVD burner
I am pulling my hair out in frustration .I have a Aspire SA 80 Desktop.
It has a SIS 661 GXM main board and a SATA 80 gig hard drive. I am running Xp. I have 750meg of Ram and one iem cd burner, I tried installing a new LG H62n DVD burner with SATA connections. There is a open plug for the seta connection and a power plug.The Burner came with the seta connection as well as the power connections.I installed the writter in a few minuted but when i powered it up .The hard drive stalled and i just recieved the standard ACER screen ,No movement . [I] unplugged th the new hardware and it booted up no problemo. I thought of changing the boot sequence but got unglued and had to reset the default values on BIOs.I have limeted knowledge in this sphere Please help other wise i have to shuffle off and pay some to do it for me.I dont want to. |
Is that Linux XP?:jawa:
This may be the wrong place to seek help for hardware issues or Windows boot problems. |
Unplug the SATA dvd drive. Look over the motherboard carefully. You may have seperate SATA connections for optical drives (cd/dvd) and hard drives.
It sounds like you've plugged the dvd into a hard drive connection. Now, when you try to boot, tne XP bootloader in the MBR is looking for a bootable OS in the dvd. As a test of my suspecion, try putting a livecd or livedvd in the drive, then power up. What happens? |
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