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Boot Failure on HD

Dec 26, 2010 5:37AM PST

Hi,
I just completed my first computer build as a major upgrade to my old Dell Dimension 8200. With help from my buddy the parts were put together without any problem. Our dilemma lies in the booting of the installed O/S. We tried booting with XP Professional or Linux Ubuntu 10.10 but the hard drive is not able to fully start up either O/S. XP gives us the Blue Screen, while Linux only gives the blinking cursor after the bios runs. My friend believes there is something wrong with the hard drive. After getting the Blue Screen he used a software to do a clean wipe of the drive which found many dirty/corrupted sectors. If so I can get the drive replaced by NewEgg. However, I wanted to know if any of you had other suggestions. Please see my build specs below.

Thank you,
Vikram

Specs: AMD Phenom II X2 555 BE
AsRock 870Exreme3 Motherboard
XFX ATI HD4650 1gb 128bit DDR2 Graphics card
Rosewill RG530-S12 530W PSU
Mushkin Silverline Enhanced 4GB Memory
Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500gb HD SATA 3gbs
Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD/CD Burner
Rosewill Challenger Case

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(NT) Are you loading the SATA driver during the OS install ?
Dec 26, 2010 6:39AM PST
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SATA driver
Dec 26, 2010 7:15AM PST

Actually, I'm not. I thought the drivers could only be installed after the O/S starts up all the way. I can download the drivers for the HD but I'm not sure if the PC will read them since they will be on a separate disk. I can try it since its worth shot.

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(NT) Try putting the SATA driver on a separate CD or floppy disk
Dec 26, 2010 7:20AM PST
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My question too.
Dec 26, 2010 7:16AM PST

How are you adding SATA support to this old OS?

And another suggestion. Let's not duplicate the old XP and SATA discussion ever again.
Bob

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When all else fails, read the manual.
Dec 26, 2010 7:43AM PST