unable to boot XP after installation

My newly built PC:
Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
Parallel ATA cable connecting:
1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
Floppy diskette drive.

I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.

I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.

Your advise is much appreciated.

In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "AM Robertson"
<> wrote:

>My newly built PC:
>Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
>BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
>CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
>Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
>Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
>Parallel ATA cable connecting:
>1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
>2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
>Floppy diskette drive.
>
>I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
>I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
>I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>
>I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
>However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>
You need to load a device-driver.
The commonest is OAKCDROM.SYS.
Look for it on your installation disk.
Copy it over to your DOS drive and then add a line like:
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS
To your CONFIG.SYS file.

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"AM Robertson" <> wrote in message
news:469afde6$0$7314$.. .
> My newly built PC:
> Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
> BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
> CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
> Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0
> slot.
> Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
> Parallel ATA cable connecting:
> 1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
> 2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
> Floppy diskette drive.
>
> I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
> I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
> I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>
> I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
> However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>
> Your advise is much appreciated.
>
>
>

is the Maxtor on the last connector on the cable....if not make it such.

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:39 -0700, "AM Robertson"
<> wrote:

>My newly built PC:
>Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
>BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
>CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
>Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
>Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
>Parallel ATA cable connecting:
>1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
>2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
>Floppy diskette drive.
>
>I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
>I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
>I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>
>I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
>However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>
>Your advise is much appreciated.
>
>
You went thru the whole XP install without a problem?
Is this you're problem: when trying to start, it gets to where XP
splash screen should show up with the little bar moving across, but
you get a black screen instead? If so, I had a new buld with a used,
bad video card doing that. Pulled it, used the motherboard's video,
all ok now.

Suddenly, without warning, AM Robertson exclaimed (7/16/2007 4:30 PM):
> My newly built PC:
> Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
> BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
> CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
> Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
> Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
> Parallel ATA cable connecting:
> 1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
> 2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
> Floppy diskette drive.
>
> I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
> I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
> I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>
> I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
> However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>
> Your advise is much appreciated.
>
>
>

First, if you have any USB devices such as USB keys, card readers or
drives attached, unplug them before booting.

Second, have a look in BIOS and make sure that if there's a boot device
order option, that your boot drive is #1 on the list.

Also, make sure your hard drive and CDRom are on the correct connectors
on your IDE cable. You could set 'em both to "cable select" and see if
that helps.

You're booting DOS from the HD? Does that mean you have a dual-boot
system installed, XP and DOS? Maybe your bootloader needs to be edited
(sorry, been too long so I don't remember how).

Have you tried booting into Safe Mode? If so, it's probably a driver issue.

Last: Might have a bad install. Could try reinstalling XP again, but
try these things first.

Good luck!

jmc

AM Robertson wrote:
> My newly built PC:
> Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
> BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
> CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
> Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
> Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
> Parallel ATA cable connecting:
> 1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
> 2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
> Floppy diskette drive.
>
> I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
> I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
> I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>
> I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
> However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>
> Your advise is much appreciated.
>
>
>

Does your video card have multiple outputs? If so, the system may be
switching to some other output at some point in the boot sequence,
leaving you with a black screen. DAMHIKT!

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:39 -0700, "AM Robertson"
<> wrote:

>My newly built PC:
>Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
>BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
>CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
>Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
>Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
>Parallel ATA cable connecting:
>1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
>2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
>Floppy diskette drive.
>
>I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
>I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
>I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>
>I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
>However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>
>Your advise is much appreciated.

Are you certain you don't need to install any platform-specific device drivers
when you get the "Press F6..." message at the beginning of the XP installation
sequence?

/daytripper

In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt daytripper
<> wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:39 -0700, "AM Robertson"
><> wrote:
>
>>My newly built PC:
>>Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
>>BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
>>CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
>>Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
>>Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
>>Parallel ATA cable connecting:
>>1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
>>2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
>>Floppy diskette drive.
>>
>>I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
>>I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
>>I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>>
>>I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
>>However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>>
>>Your advise is much appreciated.
>
>Are you certain you don't need to install any platform-specific device drivers
>when you get the "Press F6..." message at the beginning of the XP installation
>sequence?
>
He says he's got DOS on a separate disk.
THAT disk needs to have a CD-ROM device-driver on it (usually
OAKCDROM.SYS); and a DEVICE= line pointing to the device-driver in his
CONFIG.SYS file on the DOS drive.

Windows, from Win-95 on, doesn't need (or even *want*) an extra
device-driver loaded at the startup. DOS does.

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> My newly built PC:
> Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
> BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
> CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
> Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
> Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
> Parallel ATA cable connecting:
> 1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
> 2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
> Floppy diskette drive.
>
> I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
> I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
> I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>
> I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
> However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>
> Your advise is much appreciated.

If it is new construction, make sure when you boot to the windows
install screen, delete any existing partition and replace it/them with
the partitioning you desire. Next perform a format then continue with
the installation.

I know this sounds rather dumb but I had the same problem as you have
with a new drive I installed on an HP machine. Seems as though there
was something screwy with the way the drive had been set up by the mfg
or else something ran amuck between the time it left the mfg and got
installed in my machine. The process described is the only way I could
get it to work. Windows seemed to install but it would not boot on
startup.

Hope this helps.

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:20:13 -0500, Frank McCoy <> wrote:

>In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt daytripper
><> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:39 -0700, "AM Robertson"
>><> wrote:
>>
>>>My newly built PC:
>>>Motherboard: Intel DP965LT motherboard.
>>>BIOS Version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513.
>>>CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.06MHz
>>>Memory: Crucial DDR2 1GB PC5300 667MHz, installed at Channel A, DIMM 0 slot.
>>>Single channel. 1024MB memory shown in BIOS.
>>>Parallel ATA cable connecting:
>>>1. Harddrive: Maxtor 6L040J2, 40GB, IDE ATA, set to master.
>>>2. CD-ROM: NEC 52X CD-ROM drive, IDE ATA, set to slave
>>>Floppy diskette drive.
>>>
>>>I am able to boot Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD disc.
>>>I am able to install XP into the hard drive.
>>>I am NOT able to boot XP from hard drive, only black screen.
>>>
>>>I am able to boot DOS from floppy and Harddrive.
>>>However, when I boot DOS, I am NOT able to detect the CR-ROM device.
>>>
>>>Your advise is much appreciated.
>>
>>Are you certain you don't need to install any platform-specific device drivers
>>when you get the "Press F6..." message at the beginning of the XP installation
>>sequence?
>>
>He says he's got DOS on a separate disk.
>THAT disk needs to have a CD-ROM device-driver on it (usually
>OAKCDROM.SYS); and a DEVICE= line pointing to the device-driver in his
>CONFIG.SYS file on the DOS drive.
>
>Windows, from Win-95 on, doesn't need (or even *want*) an extra
>device-driver loaded at the startup. DOS does.

As anyone that installs unique boot path hardware not covered by drivers on
the OS disk understands, hardware released after a major OS release point is
unlikely to find proper drivers on the OS installation disk.

One can go through the XP installation process to the point that the user is
requested to remove the installation media and reboot the system, and end up
with a black screen. Been there, did that, went through the installation the
second time, pressed F6, loaded the drivers for the raid card from a separate
CD, completed the installation and booted the new OS from the raid set
successfully.

Which is why I was asking....

/daytripper