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- Sep 2, 2002
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- Haiku, Maui
Hi all,
I'm working on a p4p800 deluxe and I'm involved in the strangest loop... i am trying to install winxp and i have set in the bios the boot order cd-rom, hd, floppy... something I've done thousands of times. It does boot from the cd-rom and begins to load windows... but it does not ask my permission to boot from the cd-rom drive, as it usually does with other motherboards.
The reason I mention this is that after the first stage of install is over and it is ready to begin the second phase which begins with 39 minutes, it doesn't get to that screen because it doesn't really reboot. It reboots once again to the beginning of the cd-rom install process and it starts over again... Remember there is no message that says, "press any key to boot from cd-rom drive"; it just goes ahead and loads the cd-rom drive.
So after it did this once, I went back to the bios and changed the boot order to normal: A, C, cd-rom. but the same behaviour continues... endless install process.
Any one have any ideas?
I have swapped out cd-roms, changed BIOS from 1006 to 1014 to 1009, all to no avail. I have changed cd-rom cables as well.
I'm working on a p4p800 deluxe and I'm involved in the strangest loop... i am trying to install winxp and i have set in the bios the boot order cd-rom, hd, floppy... something I've done thousands of times. It does boot from the cd-rom and begins to load windows... but it does not ask my permission to boot from the cd-rom drive, as it usually does with other motherboards.
The reason I mention this is that after the first stage of install is over and it is ready to begin the second phase which begins with 39 minutes, it doesn't get to that screen because it doesn't really reboot. It reboots once again to the beginning of the cd-rom install process and it starts over again... Remember there is no message that says, "press any key to boot from cd-rom drive"; it just goes ahead and loads the cd-rom drive.
So after it did this once, I went back to the bios and changed the boot order to normal: A, C, cd-rom. but the same behaviour continues... endless install process.
Any one have any ideas?
I have swapped out cd-roms, changed BIOS from 1006 to 1014 to 1009, all to no avail. I have changed cd-rom cables as well.