New System Setup


  1. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
       #1

    New System Setup


    Okay, so i've assembled a new system. (not the one in my specs, but moving some components over.) anyways its a Asus P5N-D,Memory, Two video cards to sli, and some cheapo hard drives to hold the OS's for now (storage disk(s) to come later), and a 48x IDE cd rom drive

    my problem is that i cant get it to boot into a install CD. i've tried other drives which work in other towers.
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  2. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #2

    Does your CD player work with anything? Did you set your CD drive as 1st boot device or select the one time boot option (the key will be on your startup screen) and select to boot from the CD drive? Make sure the IDE is enabled in bios. Does your CD Drive show up in bios? I know it is a lot of questions but necessary I think.
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  3. Posts : 9,606
    Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
       #3

    You need a DVD optical drive to boot the win7 install DVD, NOT a CD drive
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  4. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
    Thread Starter
       #4

    .....okay, I'm gonna go try a DVD drive.... be back soon >.<

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  5. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Okay, so a DVD drive and one hard drive and video card at a time (a friend pointed out a 400w psu probably can't handle two drives and SLI setup) worked fine for installing seven. Now to get a bigger psu to dual boot ubuntu 11.04

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  6. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #6

    Do I understand correctly that you got 7 installed?
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  7. Posts : 740
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #7

    essenbe said:
    Do I understand correctly that you got 7 installed?
    Sure sounds like it!

    Although your PSU wouldnt run 2 GFX cards it would probably run the second hard disk without any trouble. So you can try and get your linux build running before you buy a psu.
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  8. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #8

    Sub Styler said:
    essenbe said:
    Do I understand correctly that you got 7 installed?
    Sure sounds like it!

    Although your PSU wouldnt run 2 GFX cards it would probably run the second hard disk without any trouble. So you can try and get your linux build running before you buy a psu.
    I agree 100%. A hard drive will pull very little from the PSU.
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  9. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Yeah, but I'll need a bigger psu for the second card anywaysq

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