I need Urgent Help!!!

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babak_inter

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my system is :
CPU: intel core 2 duo e6400
main: asus p5ld2-vm se
hdd: maxtor 6f250f0 - sata 2 interface
ram : apacer dual channel 1 gb


i can't install any operating system on my computer. windows xp 64-bit restarts computer when it wants to start main setup.(when it says starting windows...)
windows xp starts setup but after accepting the agreement when it says please wait it hangs.
linux (mandrake 10.1 and redhat 9.0) dont detect my hard disk.
and win me doesn't boot when i fully installed it.(hangs at start)

what sholud i do?
i'm paying more than 900$ for this computer and it's not working at all.

HELP ME!!!!
PLEASE!!!
 
did you build it yourself, it sounds like you might have a configuration problem in your bios. Enter the bios and make sure your cd drives and hard drives are correctly detected. Also if that doesn't work use the process of elimination, try a different hard drive. What type of hard drive are you useing?
Sata or IDE.
 
I would look in the bios and see if your hdd is detected. I had the same problem too, don't worry.
 
AdmnPower said:
did you build it yourself, it sounds like you might have a configuration problem in your bios. Enter the bios and make sure your cd drives and hard drives are correctly detected. Also if that doesn't work use the process of elimination, try a different hard drive. What type of hard drive are you useing?
Sata or IDE.
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the bios detects my hard drive and cd rom. besides dos works on this system. and nothing except dos. what i gonna do? (i dont really have money for another hard drive!)
 
Just because DOS works doesn't necessarily mean anything. Don't they power flashlights with DOS now???? :evil grin:

Anyways, the symptoms you are describing are symptomatic of a bad HDD. That's the first place I would be checking.
 
winxp pro(and home) have about the worst installer I have ever encountered. Are you hitting F6 to install thrid party SATA controller support when you try to install the OS? Then loading the drive off a crappy floppy (thats right the OS installer only reads drivers from a floppy- ghetto!)? That is probably why it is not seeing your HD.
 
tlarkin said:
winxp pro(and home) have about the worst installer I have ever encountered. Are you hitting F6 to install thrid party SATA controller support when you try to install the OS? Then loading the drive off a crappy floppy (thats right the OS installer only reads drivers from a floppy- ghetto!)? That is probably why it is not seeing your HD.
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that would only work if his is a SATA hard drive or he is using a Raid card, i did forget about that though, and it is an exteme pain, i had a bad encounter with that once before. (dell gives no drivers for their onboard raid support, and windows doesn't know how to use it so it's pretty much useless.) anyway if you do have a sata hard drive or a raid that might be your problem
 
AdmnPower said:
that would only work if his is a SATA hard drive or he is using a Raid card, i did forget about that though, and it is an exteme pain, i had a bad encounter with that once before. (dell gives no drivers for their onboard raid support, and windows doesn't know how to use it so it's pretty much useless.) anyway if you do have a sata hard drive or a raid that might be your problem
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That is SATA controller card in general (whether in RAID or in IDE mode). We have a ton of new laptops at my work with sata drives and we have to use PE disks to run our imaging software because the non windows driver support (DOS, Linux, etc) blows.

Dos is still good for boot disks because it runs super fast, now I have to wait like 7 minutes for them to boot off a xp PE disk which has the 32bit windows driver on it.

I am guessing this is why its recognized in the bios and not by the OS installer, because the windows installer blows.
 
It's great for older controllers. Obviously it's not going to have drivers for the latest ones. Let's keep in mind how old Windows is now. There's nothing wrong with the installer. Hardware just moves too fast.
 
SirKenin said:
It's great for older controllers. Obviously it's not going to have drivers for the latest ones. Let's keep in mind how old Windows is now. There's nothing wrong with the installer. Hardware just moves too fast.
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I have to disagree, compared to SUSE 10.1, OS X 10.4.6, Fedora Core, etc, windows has the worst installer. This of course is just my opinion from my personal experience.
 
I dunno. The beginning of setup is pretty rudimentary, but after that it is completely automatic. Nothing wrong with that. :)
 
I hate hitting F6 to load third party support. OS X, SUSE 10.1, and the newest version of Fedora Core has like a billion times better controller support.

I also hate how you can only load a driver from a floppy disk, who the hell uses floppies these days?

At least other OSes have the ability to install a package or a driver from a CD.
 
Those distros are much newer. It makes sense that they would have better controller support. Vista does too. If XP was released today it would have equal support to Linux I would hasten to suggest.

I don't like the floppy thing either though. That's rather stupid.
 
Hi guys,
I googled a lot for my mother board's sata controler driver. i found nothing.
my board is: "asus p5ld2-vm se" and it's controller is "intel ich7"/"intel 945g"

my motherboard's site doesn't have this driver. where should i find it?

i payed more than 900$ for this computer and it's really ... me up. please help.
 
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