Boots automatically from CD!

Fury · 09-06-2005, 03:10 PM

Hi Everybody!

I'm having this major problem with my xp.
I've just bought a new computer, and I have a SATA HDD and an IDE ATA HDD. I installed XP on a 25 GB partition on the SATA HDD. It installed fine, but later problems occured. Performance problems and other failures. I recognized these problems from a friend which I once helped installing XP. So, I knew that I had to get XP updated! I also knew it was easiest to format the partition over again, when I didn't have any data to lose. So I did, and it seemed to work fine. Until I installed the latest driver from my DFI Nforce 4 Motherboard. Suddenly Windows godt stuck in the booting process, and wouldn't boot at all. Format once again.
So, I got a new Windows XP CD. This time an SP2 edition. I tried installing this. Everything went fine. Until I installed the Mobo driver again. I knew that it was when I installed the IDE SW driver it went wrong, but anyway I was curious to know if that really was the problem. Stupidity, but I sure found out that it was. So, I'm now stuck with a computer that won't boot because of that damn IDE SW driver. I want to reinstall Windows, but this is when my real problem occurs, that I want you to help me with:

When I put my Windows XP Install CD in the Disk Drive, it boots from the CD automatically. Normally it asks if I want to boot from CD, and then I have to press a button. But, not now. Now it just boots from CD without me getting any choice. Which means that when it reboots as a step in the process of installing Windows XP, it just boots from the cd, and starts all over again...

I just wrote the whole story, cause I thought you might have some suggestions to my earlier problems... =D

Thank you very much
~Simon

charly · 09-06-2005, 04:20 PM

usually you don't need IDE drivers, so i would do it without them.
XP has SATA drivers added, if not so it will ask during inital boot sequence.

make sure your bios is set to boot vom SATA or scsi (like my MB)
during boot up you should get a message that a raid controller is ready

ciao

09-06-2005, 03:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
Fury Bronze Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 39	Boots automatically from CD! Hi Everybody! I'm having this major problem with my xp. I've just bought a new computer, and I have a SATA HDD and an IDE ATA HDD. I installed XP on a 25 GB partition on the SATA HDD. It installed fine, but later problems occured. Performance problems and other failures. I recognized these problems from a friend which I once helped installing XP. So, I knew that I had to get XP updated! I also knew it was easiest to format the partition over again, when I didn't have any data to lose. So I did, and it seemed to work fine. Until I installed the latest driver from my DFI Nforce 4 Motherboard. Suddenly Windows godt stuck in the booting process, and wouldn't boot at all. Format once again. So, I got a new Windows XP CD. This time an SP2 edition. I tried installing this. Everything went fine. Until I installed the Mobo driver again. I knew that it was when I installed the IDE SW driver it went wrong, but anyway I was curious to know if that really was the problem. Stupidity, but I sure found out that it was. So, I'm now stuck with a computer that won't boot because of that damn IDE SW driver. I want to reinstall Windows, but this is when my real problem occurs, that I want you to help me with: When I put my Windows XP Install CD in the Disk Drive, it boots from the CD automatically. Normally it asks if I want to boot from CD, and then I have to press a button. But, not now. Now it just boots from CD without me getting any choice. Which means that when it reboots as a step in the process of installing Windows XP, it just boots from the cd, and starts all over again... I just wrote the whole story, cause I thought you might have some suggestions to my earlier problems... =D Thank you very much ~Simon

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09-06-2005, 04:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
charly Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: austria Age: 47 Posts: 158	usually you don't need IDE drivers, so i would do it without them. XP has SATA drivers added, if not so it will ask during inital boot sequence. make sure your bios is set to boot vom SATA or scsi (like my MB) during boot up you should get a message that a raid controller is ready ciao