Jongo
03-11-2009, 10:50 PM
hi
just got a novatech barebone today, fitted the gfx card, sata hd, motherboard and everything in place. however i hadn't ordered a cd drive so i took one out of my exising PC and as its IDE i used a ribbon cable to connect it to the motherboard from the CD drive. ok everything fits however when i place in the XP disk it says FAILED TO BOOT after about 10 secs of checking the disk contents. however i don't think or can hear the cd drive spinning, has anyone else encountered this or know what to do as i'm pretty buggered if i can't do anything as it's a brand new system that's had nothing on it before.
thanks in advance!
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just got a novatech barebone today, fitted the gfx card, sata hd, motherboard and everything in place. however i hadn't ordered a cd drive so i took one out of my exising PC and as its IDE i used a ribbon cable to connect it to the motherboard from the CD drive. ok everything fits however when i place in the XP disk it says FAILED TO BOOT after about 10 secs of checking the disk contents. however i don't think or can hear the cd drive spinning, has anyone else encountered this or know what to do as i'm pretty buggered if i can't do anything as it's a brand new system that's had nothing on it before.
thanks in advance!
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