OK. At a computer swap meet today I bought an ASUS board. I booted with
no drives. It stated that there were no boot devices attached. I never
get that from the Intel boards.
I hooked up the SATA DVD drive and it booted the windows 7 disk. (Known
good drive and disk. I was not ignoring you but had not mentioned it.)
I still want one of the D914GAV motherboards to work but the other one
is being sent back tomorrow. I suspect that the bios has been flashed
and it went wrong on that one. I loaded the bios defaults and everything
got worst. It is already packed up.
If anyone has any ideas I am willing to try them. I want the other
machine for file downloads. You get a lot of viruses when downloading
and I would rather have it on another machine.
DragonFly
On 11/27/2011 4:59 PM, C. Michael Stone wrote:
> I suggested he try installing a known working drive a couple of days
> ago. He replied he was going to do that but I guess he never did....give
> up time.
>
> Mike Stone
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RogerX19 <helpmeroger@earthlink.net
> <mailto:helpmeroger%40earthlink.net>>
> To: simplycomputers2 <simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:simplycomputers2%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 11:54 am
> Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] Intel D915GAV Won't Boot
>
> Hello,
>
> You keep mentioning a DVD drive, so I assume you're trying to install an
> operating system that comes on DVD, like Windows 7.
>
> Have you tried a different DVD drive? (I've lost track).
>
> Here's a quote from one of your earlier messages:
>
> "Although it sees the DVD and I can make it the first boot device, it
> will not work.
>
> The computer checks memory, It will display attached drives, then stop.
> The screen goes blank."
>
> That would be the point where it tries to start the installation routine
> from the DVD.
>
> You said the DVD drive shows up in BIOS, but that doesn't mean that it
> works correctly.
>
> If the drive was totally bad, I would expect to see an error about
> "Operating System not found".
>
> But if the drive is working, but not able to read the disk enough to
> start the install, you might see the symptoms you are describing.
>
> If you have a regular CD drive, you might try booting with an XP install
> disk, or a Linux one.
>
> 2) Another thing I've done in situations like this is to remove
> everything from the case. Set the motherboard on a non-conductive
> surface. Plug in the power supply, monitor and keyboard, and CD or DVD
> drive (whichever is required) and see if the install will start (you
> don't need a hard drive at this point)
>
> You said you just built the computer, so it's possible you have a
> motherboard standoff in the wrong place, or a pinched wire, or something
> similar.
>
> I would also remove as much memory as possible.
>
> rogerX
>
> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:simplycomputers2%40yahoogroups.com>, FastdragonFly
> <fastdragonfly@...> wrote:
> >
> > OK. I have tried each type of drive by itself. SATA DVD, CD, IDE drive
> > and DVD. I have even tried going into the bios and telling it to use
> > legacy, IDE only, when they are the boot device. I've also tried
> enhanced.
> >
> > I am using the motherboards video connection. The board also has PCIe
> > which I don't have. I did try an old PCI card that I have but it didn't
> > register at all.
> >
> > The funny thing is I went to a computer swap meet today. I was looking
> > through some motherboards. I know they all tend to look alike but a
> > couple looked very familiar. I looked at the model and it was a D915DAG!
> >
> > I dropped it so fast and got out of there!
> >
> >
> > DragonFly
> >
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