#rootworm Posted June 9, 2007 Posted June 9, 2007 the strange part is that you just get a blinking cursor.most modern BIOS will at least give you a tiny bit of information along the lines of OS NOT FOUND PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT or something similar. you don't get anything like that?double-check your BIOS settings, especially the RAID and IDE parts. just because a BIOS setting is labelled as RAID or IDE doesn't mean it won't have an option that relates to SATA.
morocco31477 Posted June 9, 2007 Author Posted June 9, 2007 OK this was the problem. Two days ago, after I first built it, I had taken the Crucial memory out and put in some junky PC533 memory. It did not work and I immediately left the house. I didn't monkey around with the computer again until last night. So last night I was messing with the BIOS, not realizing that the old memory was in, and I set it to 800MHz, thus explaining the instability.....Everyone has the right to knock on me LOL
puntoMX Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 Where do you want me to slap you? Happy that your home-build PC is working well, congrads .
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