Built Computer, Having Issues

[Theobacchus]

I have built my own computer for the first time and am having a bit of trouble booting up.

AMD 64
Asus KVDeluxe
Nvidia 128 Asylum
Soundblaster Audigy 2
512MB Corsair XMS
Antec True 480Watt

I am using two hard drives right now, a maxtor 40 gig that has my old OS and a western digital 80gig that is brand new. Everything else is brand new. I am unable to update my bios or install an os because while the drives work and are recognized in the bios, they do not read anything in their drives. When booting with the maxtor as the master drive I enevitably recieve a msg stating that no bios has been installed. When booting with the WD it tells me that there is no bootable disk in drive and i have tried using both a boot disk and cdrom that accompanied the motherboard. The connections to the drives seem all to be correct as well as the power and other electrical components connected to the motherboard. I am getting pretty frustrated and would like to start using this computer as soon as i can because im excited to see how this new processor stands up.

 

[rockerfellerz]

What os is on the old drive? If there no os on the new drive then of course it won't boot from there until one is installed. If you have an XP cd then set the boot order in the bios to boot from the cd first and restart with the cd in the drive and it should boot from there. it will give options for partitioning and formating the drive and then installing XP.
Win 98se and win2000 cd's are also bootable.
The motherboard cd has chipset drivers etc. but can't be used before the OS is installed.

If you're going through Hell...keep going... (Winston Churchill)
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[Theobacchus]

The operating system on the old drive is 2000. I thought i needed to update the bios before installing the OS though but i will try installing XP on the new hard drive.

 

[franklin97355]

If it's a new mobo then it should run just fine with whatever version bios it has. Use a boot disk to get to a prompt and see if it runs there. How is the old disk formatted, fat32 or ntfs?

 

[zpetersen]

When booting with the maxtor as the master drive I enevitably recieve a msg stating that no bios has been installed.

it says theres no bios installed? if that is the case then you have a bum motherboard. but.. when i think about it. if theres no bios how is it able to display anything on the screen?

 

[mma1123]

Have tried booting with the maxter alone without the other connected at all?try it, if it works alone you might have your jumpers wrong on the WD drive for it to work with the maxter.

 

[TekTippy4U]

Did anyone notice the AMD "64"...could using that have something to do with it? Especially in the BIOS?

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[zpetersen]

i would take mma1123's advice and check your jumpers. i can see now that you didnt really see an error that said "no bios installed" probbaly more like "no operating system installed" or something to that effect.

If you are trying to use cable select .. dont. use the good ol' master and slave setup. when starting use only the hard drive you wish to use as your system drive. on the primaryIDE channel put the HD and set it to master/single drive. on teh secondaryIDE channel put the cdrom as master. also set up the boot sequence in the bios to boot: cdrom, a:, hard disk.

as for the amd64 issue.. the asus board.. which im assuming is a K8V Deluxe is a 64 bit board specifically for the amd64.

Although you shouldnt need to flash the bios on this new of a board here is the downloads page for this mobo

http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=K8V Deluxe.

 

[rickjb]

I also have an ASUS K8V Delux w/ an Athlon64 3200+. I recommend you follow what ZPETERSON says (above) but also check out the following. First, when it initially boots up, hit the DEL key to get into the BIOS setup. work your way into the chipset screen and disable all on board components that you are not using, especially the VIA and Promise RAID components. With these still enabled, you get a message that states (something like) "BIOS not loaded". ALso, set up your boot sequence (as mentioned above in another message) to 1 - CD, then 2 - HD. Be sure your W2K (or whatever OS you will be using) CD is in the CD drive and load Windows. This should work just fine. Once this is working OK - you may (if you believe you need it) upgrade the BIOS to the latest version (1005). If you do this, be sure to get the file K8V1005.exe from ASUS.com and execute it from a floppy. You will need a DOS boot floppy to do this, as this will NOT run from within Windows. And, please DO NOT use the built in BIOS update software that's in your BIOS chip - as it will not load the update properly. You NEED to execute the exe file I mention above.

Good luck.

 

[satrow]

The 'no Bios message' is for the Raid, SATA or network boot. Disable them in the Bios.

Andy.