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05-04-2008, 05:48 PM
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Mobo rejecting CD Drive
I built my friend a new, cheap computer for gaming under a really tight budget. It booted up and everything, when I hit "any key to boot from CD" it said there was a hardware problem. I tried the drive on my comp and it worx fine. Is the mobo the only other thing that could be damaged? When I get the chance im going to hook up my hardware to his mobo and see if anything worx, but before that happens does anyone know if there might be a problem somewhere else, or is this another DOA mobo. The mobo was very cheap btw.
Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135156 Mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138103 Thx.
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05-04-2008, 06:12 PM
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Are you trying to load XP?
You may have to use a PATA drive. You can also try different SATA ports. Try the hard drive on SATA 1 and the optical drive on SATA 2. You can also flip them around and give it a try. You may want to look around in the BIOS. Some need to be set so the SATA optical drive is bootable. Same goes for the hard drive. Good luck! |
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05-04-2008, 06:56 PM
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the HD is IDE since he is using it from his old comp, the disk drive is SATA. I tried both SATA ports but still nothing, ill take a look in bios like you said.
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05-04-2008, 10:00 PM
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why not buy a new hard drive???
it will be a lot faster and easier to do! go for this one - they are cheap enough now! - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136178 |
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05-06-2008, 03:13 AM
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He doesnt want to spend money on anything yet he wants to have a nice comp, ill never understand his logic but w/e we will let him dream.
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