Hello all, nice to join in ratther than sit on the side reading, this time i have a problem thats flummoxed me.
I have a customers Pc, New MoBO (ASrock P4i65g) new CPU (P4 2.8ghz) new psu, XP Home, all bios settings correct.
the problem im having is i'm unable to boot from any ide H/D, (ide2 is fine i can use cdr drive), I have tried 4 H/D's all preinstalled with XP, all spin up, but, i am able to read and write to them as ive replaced the boot files , fixed mbr through various utilities ( just in case) but still wont boot up, after post, the next page a i see is the startup option page, unable to use any choice like safe mode, the pc will then reboot and go back to starup menu.
if i use sata drives, there is no problem at all, everything boots up fine,
Bios is set to boot from HD/cd/fd in that order.
any help would be greatfuly recieved
kev
I have a customers Pc, New MoBO (ASrock P4i65g) new CPU (P4 2.8ghz) new psu, XP Home, all bios settings correct.
the problem im having is i'm unable to boot from any ide H/D, (ide2 is fine i can use cdr drive), I have tried 4 H/D's all preinstalled with XP, all spin up, but, i am able to read and write to them as ive replaced the boot files , fixed mbr through various utilities ( just in case) but still wont boot up, after post, the next page a i see is the startup option page, unable to use any choice like safe mode, the pc will then reboot and go back to starup menu.
if i use sata drives, there is no problem at all, everything boots up fine,
Bios is set to boot from HD/cd/fd in that order.
any help would be greatfuly recieved
kev