Hi,
My son and I have build a new PC. We've put the HD on the motherboard at the 1ste IDE port. The CD-reader (master) and the CD-writer (slave) on the 2de IDE port. In the bios we've seaded that booting should be done by the CD-reader.
There's a problem when we want to install winXP from the CD-rom. Everything seems to be good when we turn on the PC. But when we put the CD (winXP) in the CD-rom, the PC seems te boot from the CD-rom and we get the message "system is looking for hardware-devices". But afterwards, nothings happens and the screen stays black.

Is there something we don't do good ??

Some computers don't like you booting from the second IDE.
It's probably a better idea to have the CD READER (CD ROM) as a slave to the Hard disk - just swap the cable over to allow this.
Make sure the jumpers are set to 'cable select' on all devices, that way the system can sort itself out.

It may be getting caught up in all the new hardware. Try installing with the bare minimum of hardware (no CD-writer or sound card) and adding parts afterwards one at a time. Then install your drivers in this order: chipset drivers, video drivers, sound card drivers, CD-writer programs, etc.

Also, you've probably already checked this, but is your hard drive set-up as the master of the 1st IDE port?

Hi,

Also, you've probably already checked this, but is your hard drive set-up as the master of the 1st IDE port?

The HDD sits on the 1st IDE port and the jumper sits on MASTER.
I received the faillure: "no harddisks found", so I replaced the jumper on "CS".
After restarting everything works !!

Thanks a lott

Hans from Belgium ;)

Good to know that everything works now. And thanks for telling us how you fixed it! ;) The more info we get on what works and what doesn't, the more help we can be in the future!