Can't make my new computer working help!

[leonidas]

I've bought part of the computer separatly, I've got a motherboard Asus a7n8x-x, AMD Barton 2500, nvidia geforce 64 mo, 256 DDR ram, 160 go seagate HDD, and I can't make everything working.
I've tried to install Win XP Pro Corp with the 6 boot disks, then Win98, then a bootable version of Xp Pro Corp, nothing worked. Sometimes The computer doesn't even Make the sound "beep"when turning it on, sometimes it does, sometimes it's looking for DMI pool data or something. Right now it just displays "08-19-2003 Nvidia-nf".

I don't know what 's wrong. It may come from the bios setting as I once exit the bios saving changes, thinking it was going to work.

Does someone knows what I would have to check in the bios?

Do I have to flash the bios maybe ?

Any help would be much apreciated
Thanks in advance.

Leonidas

[Virtualbody1234]

Je pense qui faut faire un "Clear CMOS". Ça doit être expliqué dans le manuel.

Télécharge le manuel français: Clicker à drote sur --> http://www.asus.com.cn/pub/ASUS/mb/s...61_a7n8x-x.pdf et sauver le fichier sur ton disque dur.

Ou tu peut te servir de celui qui vien avec la carte maitresse, si tu la.

[Spicker]

bonjour?

[leonidas]

I've been doing both clear Cmos and bios flashing, corectly I hope, and know the computer starts all the time, but ever stops at the fucking step of : "verifying DMI pool data"

Does someone knows how to fix that?

[Sasage]

That happened to my PC as well. Try the disks one last time, if not, then format your drive. After I formatted my drive I was able to install windows.

[leonidas]

for the clear Cmos I had to quit the little batery on the mother board and shift the Cmos jumper to thge right, right ? like with all motherboards. No?

[tesco]

for the clear Cmos I had to quit the little batery on the mother board and shift the Cmos jumper to thge right, right ? like with all motherboards. No?

you don't have to do both.
it's one or the other.


edit: What is the boot order set to? (in bios)

it should go something like:
floppy
optical (cdrom)
hard drive

it will then boot from the cd.
also make sure that the bios is detecting the cd drive(s) and hard drive(s) correctly.

[leonidas]

you don't have to do both.
it's one or the other.


edit: What is the boot order set to? (in bios)

it should go something like:
floppy
optical (cdrom)
hard drive

it will then boot from the cd.
also make sure that the bios is detecting the cd drive(s) and hard drive(s) correctly.

I've set the priorities in that order, no changes...
The computer detects also the hdd and the cdrom in the list when the computer starts up, you know.. primary master hdd...etc...

[Samurai]

set them all to CD only then change back after boot

[leonidas]

I've just tried with two version of xp pro corp, one bootable (So no bootdiskquette needed I guess), and one more old, not bootable, so I put the 3/2 floppy boot disquette in the computer, with the cdrom of xp.

none of the two worked

-With the bootable cd, It stops after
"verifying DMI pool data"
and
"boot from cd"

With the non bootable cd, I got this:

"verifying DMI pool data"
and
"Setup is inspecting your computer's ......" (can't finished to read the sentence cause the computer restarts at this time)

And it will restarts for ever if I don't stop it.