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Since: Jun 14, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:08 am
Post subject: cannot boot to OS
Archived from groups: alt>comp>periphs>mainboard>epox (more info?)

I would appreciate some advice please. After reading alot of material I
decided to build a computer. Using an EPox 9NDA3J Board, an AMD Athlon
3500+,
2 GB's of ram. 1x W/Digital IDE 320 gig HDD, 2 x W/Digital 320 gig SATA 2
HDD's, sound card, graphics card etc. Partitioned the Drive and Installed
windows Xp Home,( I made the IDE HDD Master and no Slave device) rebooted
the computer but I can't seem to get it to boot from the HDD with Xp on it,
which I assume is the IDE HDD.
During the initial POST Boot checks The Hdd's are detected as follows:
IDE Chan 0 Master WDC3200JB-OOKPA0
IDE Chan 0 Slave: None
detects both SATA drives as Sata 1 and Sata 2.
Then it gets to verifying DMI pool data, but will not go pas Boot From CD

I have set the BIOS Boot sequence as Follows:
HDD Boot priority is IDE HDD, Sata1, Sata2
CD Rom Priority is CH M DVD Ram Drive, CH S ATAPI CD-R/RW
Boot Sequence is:
1st Boot CDROM
2nd Boot HDD
3rd Boot HDD

I have installed window on the IDE Drive, everything went ok, until
I restarted windows, then it could not find the HDD and OS. I have set the
BIOS to boot from the HDD's before the CD Roms. I can access window by
booting from the CDRom with the Win Xp disc in it, and go to the repair
sequence at the end I am in C: Drive in windows. Under disc management I
can see the other two Sata drive but have not formatted them yet. I have
tried everything the Bios to no avail.hardware profile.
I have tried to contact epox through their website, but their published
email addy support RemoveThis @epox.com.tw does not work, seems to be the same for the
boards


Would really appreciate you help on this guys

Thanks and Regards
Bob

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