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[Nezat101]

i've tried to reinstall windows [on my dell dimension 9200] but i got the blu screen while the CD was booting so i read online to get rid of it you must turn the SATA raid config (or whatnot) for my HD to autodetect . Windows installed properly but some of the drivers did not; now ...

-loading windows requires the boot cd in the cdrom drive otherwise i get the blu screen
[its required to Boot from CD>quit the windows setup>reboot the computer> windows begins loading]
-if i take the HD config back to "RAID on" i get the blu screen
-some drivers cannot detect corresponding hardware even though its there

does anybody have any advice? is my motherboard or something messed up? the drivers i cant get to work are :

-video drivers (because i the card is aftermarket and driver is not on resourceCD)
-Wireless network card (this is also a 3rd party PCI card; drivers not on CD)

edit: its not actualy necessary to boot from the CD, but a bootable CD must be in the CDrom drive

This post has been edited by Nezat101 on Jun 19 2010, 06:07 AM

[khat17]

This sounds very weird.

Will look up the model later on to see if we can help but - - - - -

Do you actually have RAID setup on your machine? If not then RAID does not need to be turned on.

The issue you're having may be with the RAM or the HDD on a quick guess - but the fact that a disc needs to be in the drive in order to boot is fishy. Have you changed the primary boot device in the BIOS to be the HDD and not the ODD? Check on this and post back please.

*EDIT*
Let's go through your BIOS options.

So if you have RAID then turn it on. If not then ensure it is off.

If you have a floppy drive make sure that is on - if not then turn it off.

Your onboard NIC and audio should be set to on or enabled - unless you have another card that you use for audio or NIC.

If you're using XP then I'd suggest you turn off Virtualization - Speed Step - and Hyper Threading. There have been some issues with these turned on before certain drivers are loaded on XP - and in some cases some of these features end up slowing down the PC instead of help with performance - seen it happen.

If you're using Vista or above then you could leave those settings on - but you could also turn them off for troubleshooting.

And turn FASTBOOT off - it will do a full memory check (basic test, not as advanced as MEMTEST and such) and will give you an idea of whether or not the RAM is ok.

For testing your drive I'd suggest doing a full checkdisk scan and see what happens. Post the log of that if you find any errors.

Waiting on your reply.

This post has been edited by khat17 on Jul 22 2010, 06:13 AM