[Skin1301]

Hi Guys,
I have just changed the case on my Grandad's computer and now it wont boot up!
It was a straight change over as his old case was looking a bit worse for wear, the only think I changed was that I installed another slave hard drive (that was lying around) as we now have more space.

Setup:
OS : Windows Vista Beta 2 (32 Bit) - Build 5384

SATA 200 Gb (Master)
30 Gb (Slave)
80 Gb (NEW Slave)

Graphics : Radeon 256 Mb X800GT PciExpress
Motherboard : Asus SLI - A8N32
Ram : 1.5 Gb
Processor : Amd Athlon 64 Processor 3800+

I have tried booting in Safemode and booting from an XP cd with no joy, has anyone got any ideas as to why the computer should'nt boot?

I know the obvious answer is to take out the 'new' Slave HD i installed but there is no reason why that should affect it.

I also want to change back over to XP and didnt back it up, so if anyone knows of a way to force a clean install that would help to.

Thanks.

 

[jmwills]

Both put drives on Cable Select and make sure they are set to Auto Detect in the BIOS.

 

[Skin1301]

Thanks for the advice but do you have any idea were I might find the cable select option in the bios? I know the bios will be different depending on the motherboard but i cant seem to find that option anywhere.

 

[FrankSinatra]

5384 is a pretty old build...that might be the problem

try unplugging one drive and is vista boots, plug it back in. are all drives sata? plug the 30 and 80 gigs once vista boots, and then set the 200 as the sstem boot, and active partition. It is a good idea to completally wipe the disk vista will go on (not the data disks) solves a lot of possible future problems/bugs

 

[crjdriver]

Is the system getting past post or is it not posting?

 

[FrankSinatra]

what? stop talking jibberish

 

[jmwills]

Cable Select is a jumper setting on the drive.

 

[Skin1301]

thanks alot i'll try those ideas and let you know.

 

[crjdriver]

You have changed cases. There is a very real possibility that the board is not installed correctly; ie shorted to the case. You have not answered; does the system post or not?