Hello, recently I have purchased a new HDD - Maxtor SATA 160GB and a new motherboard - MSI K8N Neo Platinum Nforce3
From when I installed the parts have been having troubles. Here how it goes: I fristly installed the new HDD no probs at all it will get to the boot up screen and the bios settings but when I plug my CD/DVD drives in to IDE slot 1 or 2 (I have tryed both) and set the CD as master and DVD as slave, it will only get to the display logo of the motherboard which says "Platinum" and wont move when i press "DEL" that will get into bios settings it just wont move, when I press "TAB" to get into POST it sometimes goes into POST and sometimes does not,
but when it gets into POST it says, "AMD Processer ... etc etc" so it is reconizing the CPU also it displays the correct RAM but it highlights the RAM with white writing and displays the timing on the ram its as thought it is displaying an error maybe, maybe not but the RAM is PC2100 512 and PC2700 512 both Samsung, it seems as though the CD/DVD Drives arn't reciving any power or commands from the mobo, but I have tested the PSU connecters and tryed them to see if any power is running through them also tryed resetting the CMOS - all I need is for the CD drives to open and I can install the OS it also seems to work when I only have CD drives in and not the HDD, I have tryed alot of things and just can't find the problem, at all.
As I said it gets to the boot up screen but i can't put the OS in to install due to the CD drives arn't working/opening.
Any idea's?, Thanks.
From when I installed the parts have been having troubles. Here how it goes: I fristly installed the new HDD no probs at all it will get to the boot up screen and the bios settings but when I plug my CD/DVD drives in to IDE slot 1 or 2 (I have tryed both) and set the CD as master and DVD as slave, it will only get to the display logo of the motherboard which says "Platinum" and wont move when i press "DEL" that will get into bios settings it just wont move, when I press "TAB" to get into POST it sometimes goes into POST and sometimes does not,
but when it gets into POST it says, "AMD Processer ... etc etc" so it is reconizing the CPU also it displays the correct RAM but it highlights the RAM with white writing and displays the timing on the ram its as thought it is displaying an error maybe, maybe not but the RAM is PC2100 512 and PC2700 512 both Samsung, it seems as though the CD/DVD Drives arn't reciving any power or commands from the mobo, but I have tested the PSU connecters and tryed them to see if any power is running through them also tryed resetting the CMOS - all I need is for the CD drives to open and I can install the OS it also seems to work when I only have CD drives in and not the HDD, I have tryed alot of things and just can't find the problem, at all.
As I said it gets to the boot up screen but i can't put the OS in to install due to the CD drives arn't working/opening.
Any idea's?, Thanks.