[Murray S.]

Set 1st boot device to harddrive.. after the first required boot during install

Murray

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MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

And it still tries to boot from cd when i set it to hard drive.

[DymlosTalos]

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

And it still tries to boot from cd when i set it to hard drive.

[gerryf]

out of curiousity, when the memory counts up, hit f11, then select harddrive (ideo 0)

does windows setup continue?

[gerryf]

Under standard CMOS features, select IDE PRIMARY MASTER, hit enter.

Hit AUTO...does the drive detect?

Under ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES, after setting BOOT SEQUENCE to the harddrive as first device, select HARDDRIVE BOOT PRIORITY to set the correct drive.

[DymlosTalos]

i may have done something...

I started it up and it said something about cmos and changing my overclock settings, i bypassed it with f1 and it installed windows!

but it said it was going to run in safe mode

[DymlosTalos]

ok it starts up now but it takes forever and its not recognizing one of my cd drives for some odd reason

[gerryf]

it won't recognize your cd-rom in safe mode....reboot again, this time pat attention to messages.

That was a fast install

[The Skeptic]

I repeat my suggestion that you clear up the cmos by unplugging the computer from power source and taking out the battery for 10 minutes. This will reset bios values to default. If you got a message about cmos and overclocking there is no point in bypassing the message. Go to basics and try to run the computer on default.