I hope this is the right place to post this. Today I bought a new computer that has a Mini ATX with SATA hard drive. I don't want the SATA as I already have an established hard drive that I want to use. So I unplug the SATA and disable it in the Bios.
I plug in the IDE hard drive, boot up... get no failures during POST. I get the annoying "Windows did not shut down properly" message and choose Start Normally. The Bar along the bottom goes halfway then the system reboots.
So I try again, this time I choose to start up in safe mode. Again it restarts halfway.
I tried a different hard drive (as mine came out of an HP machine) but it wouldn't start either all the way either.
Any suggestions? I've played around with the bios so much I can't remember all of the settings that I've tried but none keep the PC from rebooting.
I plug in the IDE hard drive, boot up... get no failures during POST. I get the annoying "Windows did not shut down properly" message and choose Start Normally. The Bar along the bottom goes halfway then the system reboots.
So I try again, this time I choose to start up in safe mode. Again it restarts halfway.
I tried a different hard drive (as mine came out of an HP machine) but it wouldn't start either all the way either.
Any suggestions? I've played around with the bios so much I can't remember all of the settings that I've tried but none keep the PC from rebooting.