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bavaria-n

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Hallo. My computer was not working at all, nothing! I replaced motherboard and hard drive-operating system was Vista, and now I am getting messages:


Media test failure, check cable
Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.

So I insert widows Vista CD and after about minute of funny growling noises from CD drive all happens again-the same messages comeback.
What to do?
 
bavaria-n said:
Media test failure, check cable
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That says Hard Drive checking failed, please check the cable (not try installing Vista)

Start by checking all Hard Drive connections internally
If its a IDE (flat data cable) connected Hard Drive, check that the jumper is in CS (Cable Select)
If its a Sata Drive, try plugging it into another Sata port
If its a laptop, refit the Hard Drive
 
bavaria-n said:
Its SATA, I just connected to different plug and used different SATA cable, and the problem is same
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Go into the BIOS and under disk drives look to see if the BIOS has properly detected the drive. If it hasn't then either there is something wrong with the cables or the drive itself..
 
bavaria-n said:
Yes they are new.
Computer was not working at all, I replaced the motherboard, after that PC started to work to the point where the windows started to boot, then restarted over and over... Here on forum I read that because of windows Vista I need to replace the HD so I did.
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And you needed to replace it why? Was it failing or...? The operating system wouldn't make a difference to the drive if the drive is viable.. you would need to re-install the operating system (in this case Vista) to get it to set up for the new MB.

bavaria-n said:
Here is the MB
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150333772915&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
And here is the HD
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190330963514&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
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Okay. So let's assume something here.. You have the drive set properly as CS or Master and plugged into the proper port for primary drive. As far as you know being a new drive it would have no operating system on it. So of course if you just try to boot it you are going to get media failure/no operating system error messages.

What you need to do is:

Make sure it is set correctly in the BIOS
Change the boot order to look at the CD first (assuming of course that the BIOS sees the CD-ROM)
Put your operating system disk in the CD
Re-boot the system.

If everything is set correctly then it should come up and say "press any key to boot from CD.." (you can also force a CD boot by pressing F-12 right after POST to get a boot menu. Pick boot from CD)
Once you press the key it should start loading the set up program for the operating system and follow the instructions from there.
 
I did all that, and got message:
Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter
I removed CD drive from different computer and installed to this one and the same problem, so the CD drive is ok…
What next?
I just wan to ad that CD drive responds, light flickers and I can here that drive is working.
 
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Is this an original Windows Setup CD ?
When you say you moved the drive and got the same problem, that really means the CD drive is faulty? I may have mis-understood what you did?

CD/DVD Drives are very inexpensive now, if you feel the drive may be faulty, purchase a new one
I have had faulty DVD Drives that read discs but will not boot them, so they can have lots of different faults

Try a new DVD Drive
 
OK new story here,
I installed very old CD drive, put in Win XP and finely booting is working, but I don’t wan to use this very old CD drive…
So the original DVD drive is defect or do not work with this new Motherboard. How to check if this
New MB supports the DVD drive?
 
FYI, media test failure is referring to a network boot. Motherboards tend to have this set as the last boot option by default.

Now for the most recent question; it's possible the drive could be defective. I'd suggest installing windows with this old drive then seeing how the drive functions within Windows. Chances are it could be a problem with the disk and the older drive has a little better error correction or something.

I can't think of any real tests for DVD drives right off, besides simply using them. Take some commercial disks (nothing burnt or homemade) and confirm they work. Maybe try burning a few things and make sure you don't have any errors and the disks are readable afterwards.

Oh...and one final thing. Is the old drive IDE or SATA (sorry if I missed it in a previous post) I was just going to suggest confirming the jumper is set correctly if it's IDE. Master/Slave/CS...
 
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