SATA drives

[Crafty]

Hey every body.
Last time i worked with computer hardware was when Pentium II still had a wow factor So I really hope some one can help me with this issue:

Yesterday I bough some hardware to build a new machine, but now im running into some trouble.

The configuration is as follows:

ASUS P5Q motherboard
45nm Core2 Duo 3.0 Ghz 1333 FSB (E8400)
2 x 1GB Kingston 800
Nvidia 8500 GT vga
2 x 1TB Seagate.
1x Asus Sata LiteScribe DVD Writer
500Watt PSU

one of the terabyte drives actually comes from my old pc, as well as the dvd writer. The hdu is installed with windows home server.

So at first boot it comes up telling me it could not find a valid boot drive. So I switched off everything and swopped the ports.
Then Just after it finished the POST test, it rebooted. I let it boot up again, but still. Seems like it is in a continous reboot cycle.

I recall seeing this before, and it had something to do with the sata drives.
Any help will be much apreciated!

 

[The_Techie]

Welcome to MyBroadband, Crafty

I've had such an issue with my motherboard as well, that it would sometimes just reboot instead of displaying the invalid boot device error.

What you can try is to put it back into the configuration it was previously, and change the listing of the hard drives in the BIOS (as mine is now). Currently I have the hard drive in slot 5 listed as the first "priority" hard drive, if you will. Hopefully it'll now find a valid boot device without rebooting.

 

[sn3rd]

You could also keep a look out for some message telling you what function key to press to bring up a boot menu. From that menu, you can select which device to boot from.

Is the hard drive being detected?

 

[Crafty]

Eish, I tried that.
The fact that I have 2 different 1TB models will not make a difference, will it?
ST310000333 has the OS on it, and ST310000340 is the blank drive
perhaps the dvd writer does something funny.
Will play with it over the weekend though

 

[Chevron]

Eish, I tried that.
The fact that I have 2 different 1TB models will not make a difference, will it?
ST310000333 has the OS on it, and ST310000340 is the blank drive
perhaps the dvd writer does something funny.
Will play with it over the weekend though

Unplug everything besides your boot drive, then see if you still have the problem.

 

[Crafty]

Thanks Quick Silver, will give that a shot when I'm @ home. I unplugged the emty drive with no luck. Should actually unplug the dvd writer as well. or just revert back to a PATA dvd writer?

One would think that with brand new hardware, everything being ASUS it will be easy as pie?

 

[sn3rd]

Thanks Quick Silver, will give that a shot when I'm @ home. I unplugged the emty drive with no luck. Should actually unplug the dvd writer as well. or just revert back to a PATA dvd writer?

One would think that with brand new hardware, everything being ASUS it will be easy as pie?

Likely there's something that's just amiss...

So the HDD shows up in the BIOS ?

 

[Crafty]

Problem was solved. Seems like it was windows.
I booted from my Windows Home Server CD, reinstalled the OS Partition, rebuild all the data partitions/drives, and perfect.
Now I have the perfect system stuck with fable 1 seeing as fable 2 is only for xbox.
Any ways. everything is working now
Thanks for those who helped! Much appreciated!