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
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