computer hangs after setup

I decided to make a disk partition so I decided for a fresh setup.

"Press any key to boot from CD....." Enter
Partition OK
Format OK
Copying files OK
After Setup copied w2k files
Initialize Windows OK
Setup reboots
then again "Press any key to boot from CD....." Didn't press any key.
Computer hangs.

Motherboard is ASRock 775i65G. BIOS 3.20. Pentium IV 3GHZ, 1GB RAM.
Bios setup seems to be OK. Two SATA disks (Seagate 80 GB & Samsung
200GB) are recognized and formatted okay.

Run out of ideas. Any help?
Thanks

John
Tue Mar 18 07:32:21 PDT 2008

Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the
begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when
asked to do so.

John

bill wrote:

> I decided to make a disk partition so I decided for a fresh setup.
>
> "Press any key to boot from CD....." Enter
> Partition OK
> Format OK
> Copying files OK
> After Setup copied w2k files
> Initialize Windows OK
> Setup reboots
> then again "Press any key to boot from CD....." Didn't press any key.
> Computer hangs.
>
> Motherboard is ASRock 775i65G. BIOS 3.20. Pentium IV 3GHZ, 1GB RAM.
> Bios setup seems to be OK. Two SATA disks (Seagate 80 GB & Samsung
> 200GB) are recognized and formatted okay.
>
> Run out of ideas. Any help?
> Thanks

bill
Tue Mar 18 07:52:16 PDT 2008

John John wrote:
> Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the
> begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when
> asked to do so.
John
I did before (june 2007) and worked without supplying additional drives.

John
Tue Mar 18 08:00:10 PDT 2008

bill wrote:

> John John wrote:
>
>> Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the
>> begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when
>> asked to do so.
>
> John
> I did before (june 2007) and worked without supplying additional drives.

Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the 200
GB drive attached?

John

bill
Tue Mar 18 12:18:41 PDT 2008

John John wrote:

> Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the 200
> GB drive attached?

Solved!
Yes the 200GB HDD was attached. What happened is that for some reason
disk 1 (C:) was changed to E: and and disk 1 (D:) to F:. That's why
Setup didn't find the disk. I deleted both partitions, recreated C: and
D:, formatted C: only and worked fine.

AFAIK the ASRock mobo is fully SATA (INTEL) compatible. No floppy is
supplied along the motherboard.


Thanks a lot.

John
Tue Mar 18 13:21:17 PDT 2008

bill wrote:

> John John wrote:
>
>> Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the
>> 200 GB drive attached?
>
>
> Solved!
> Yes the 200GB HDD was attached. What happened is that for some reason
> disk 1 (C:) was changed to E: and and disk 1 (D:) to F:. That's why
> Setup didn't find the disk. I deleted both partitions, recreated C: and
> D:, formatted C: only and worked fine.
>
> AFAIK the ASRock mobo is fully SATA (INTEL) compatible. No floppy is
> supplied along the motherboard.
>
>
> Thanks a lot.

You're welcome. Keep in mind that even if the mobo can run SATA in IDE
mode the Windows 2000 setup will still choke on disks/partitions larger
than 137GB. Thanks for letting us know how you resolved the problem.

John