Ok I built a computer, I'll post the specs at the end of my post.
What happened was this, I made a computer and first of all I can't get into BIOs. Secondly, the first time I managed to install windows XP, but all it would do is load up to a screen that says, Windows XP is now restarting. It would restart and do this over and over again. So I plugged my hard drive into another computer and wiped it. Now it says bootmgr is missing press alt+ctrl+del to restart. I replaced the motherboard for free because I thought it might be a motherboard issue.
It ended up doing the same thing with a new motherboard. I suspect the reason I might not be able to get into BIOs after getting a new motherboard is that I'm using a USB keyboard. An example of what happens when I attempt to get into BIOs is that I press the key that is needed to get into BIOs and the computer simply goes to a black screen and does not do anything. It did this with both motherboards, so I suspect that it might be the USB keyboard, but this is the first computer I built, so I do not know if this is common.
I also reformatted the hard drive more then once, so I'm not sure why it keeps saying bootmgr is missing. I used a diablotek external hard drive device to reformat the hard drive, I have no idea if that has something to do with it.
SPECS:
ASUS P6X58D-E LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
Western Digital AV-GP WD10EURS 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
XFX HD-685X-ZDFC Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model F3-16000CL9D-4GBRM
What happened was this, I made a computer and first of all I can't get into BIOs. Secondly, the first time I managed to install windows XP, but all it would do is load up to a screen that says, Windows XP is now restarting. It would restart and do this over and over again. So I plugged my hard drive into another computer and wiped it. Now it says bootmgr is missing press alt+ctrl+del to restart. I replaced the motherboard for free because I thought it might be a motherboard issue.
It ended up doing the same thing with a new motherboard. I suspect the reason I might not be able to get into BIOs after getting a new motherboard is that I'm using a USB keyboard. An example of what happens when I attempt to get into BIOs is that I press the key that is needed to get into BIOs and the computer simply goes to a black screen and does not do anything. It did this with both motherboards, so I suspect that it might be the USB keyboard, but this is the first computer I built, so I do not know if this is common.
I also reformatted the hard drive more then once, so I'm not sure why it keeps saying bootmgr is missing. I used a diablotek external hard drive device to reformat the hard drive, I have no idea if that has something to do with it.
SPECS:
ASUS P6X58D-E LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
Western Digital AV-GP WD10EURS 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
XFX HD-685X-ZDFC Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model F3-16000CL9D-4GBRM