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Hello. First, I would like to thank all the great people here who really help out us new guys :) Ok, here is my problem. I have just received and built my very first PC :) I have the Chaintech AIA5E motherboard combo with the AMD DURON 900mhz CPU. I read and basically memorized every would in the manual, which doesn't explain anything really. Here is on of my weirdest problems with this thing.
1. Ok, you know how you conect the IDE cable from the motherboard, to the Hard Drive, then the end of the wire is to the slave? Well, turns out that if I try to install the Harddrive, then the CD RW drive at the last connector, my Harddrive is considered the Slave and my CD player is the Primary! I tried switching the jumpers and everything, but it stays the same. I cant even change it in BIOS. The only way for the HD to become primary is if I connect it to the end of the IDE Cable?!? Weird.
However, after messing with it for a while, I decided to continue on. I then tried to install Windows 2000. For some reason, everytime the setup is about to start, it freezes at "Please wait while setup examines hardware" It always freezes on that screen in DOS mode. I tried booting off the CD and the floppies, and it is always stuck there! The thing is I am not really sure if it is stuck, but I let it set like that for about 15 minutes and there is no change at all. Even the CD ROM stops spinning
Then, I tried using Windows 98 SE, and it works perfectly! But I have been using windows 2000 for a long time and I miss it. Why can't I install it? I really hope someone could help me. BTW, I do not believe my PC is overheating, because I can run online games running at 100+ frames per second with no problem. It just freezes on the Windows 2000 Setup :(
At the 2 connector end of the ide(eide) cable, the END connector is always MASTER, the middle is always SLAVE.
Mobo PRIMARY eide channel should be used for hard disks.
mobo SECONDARY eide channel is used for cdrom/r/rw, and DVD-ROM/R/RAM.
Nothing weird about this, you are a bit too new to understand this. When I first started in PC compatibles, I did not know this.
Put your HDD on mobo primary and your CDRW on mobo secondary, BOTH configured as MASTER, and install again.
Charles
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Haha, I had it like that the first time, but the saleman I bought it from told me to do it that way lol. Because I had a problem booting Windows 2000 first, so then he suggested to use that one wire. But in the manual, it says that blue plug = to mainboard, grey plug (in middle to master) and black (end plug to slave) What do you think about this? So I should use two different IDE cables, one secondary master, and one hard drive master? That is the way I had it the first time :)
Also, Windows 98 is running fine with the screwy config, do you think switching the wires will get Windows 2000 to boot and setup? Thanks a lot.
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Ok, I now hooked up the Primary Harddrive to the Master Socket, and used another wire from my other PC for a Secondary Master for my CD-RW. Now for some reason, the light on my Floppy will not go off and it will not read any floppies :/ Plus I still can't load Windows 2000. :( Come on pros, show me how much you know! :) Thanks
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Ok, I figured out that the Floppy wires were upside down, aparently the cable doesn't have grooves that have to line up like the IDE cables. Anyway, I still can't get it to work. Could anyone help me out please?
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Try flipping the floppy cable end on the mobo, or simply make sure the cables did not come adrift (very common problem).
Charles
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First off, are you installing 2000 in addition to 98se, or updating, or doing a clean install,
I recommend a clean install, that means you need to repartition and format your hard drive, you can either use a program like partion magic, "personally I never had alot of luck with that", or use fdisk off a boot disk, if you have the boot disk from 95 or 98, I don't know about 2000, never worked with it, and don't consider myself one of the pro's,, just done it a few times is all. it's pretty self explanitory, well kinda,, took me a few times to understand,, that's the best way,, if you need to keep 98 and all of your files intact,, set up another partion on the hdd, and load 2000 onto that one,, http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101984 here is a link go to G's post it is lengthy and informative,, should be all you need Good luck,,,
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Make sure all your ide cables have the red strip closest to the power connector. That is a really common problem!
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