First Boot Problem

[Ancientpaint]

Hello all,

This is my first build. I am having some problems installing windows. I put the computer together and powered it up with the windows XP64 disk. I receive two error messages. Can't detect mass storage device. Process1 Initialization Failure. If I turned on the computer without the windows disk the computer freezes at "verifying DMI pool". I loaded puppy linux form my cd-rom and everything went fine. I also installed my brothers hard drive (already has puppy linux on the drive) and that worked fine. I just can't figure out how to install windows. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

I built a computer with the following parts -

Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.1GHz 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor

ORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3P AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard

APEVIA ATX-CW500WP4 500W ATX Power Supply

G Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 22X DVD±R DVD Burner

[The Wise Monkey]

Download and run the WD diagnostic tools from their website to check that your HD is ok:

www.wdc.com/

[Ancientpaint]

hello thanks for the response.

I ran the tool. It found zero errors. So the hard drive works.

[The Wise Monkey]

OK, what try putting the XP CD in and boot from the CD - what happens?

[Ancientpaint]

I created a new XP cd and I had a little more success. I made it partially through the setup. Now, when i boot from an XP Cd the XP setup beings. I format the drive. I choose to install XP on the drive. Setup copies the files to 100%. The computer then restarts . It displays DMI Pool data... for a moment then says "a disk read error occurred" Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

hmm is the XP setup loading the files onto my computer then unable to read them ? This version of XP is 32. I am not sure if I must have a 64 version. thanks again for your help.

[The Wise Monkey]

Hold on, you said originally that you were using XP64 - which version are you using? :/

Try doing a full format rather than a quick format, and use the WD tool to write zeroes to your HD before running the XP install.