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(solved)Why booting on stops at intel sign?
Shane:
OK so when the hard drive is hooked up the motherboard pretty much hangs up while trying to detect it. Normally this would point to be a bad drive. BUT you said you where able to put the drive into another system with no problems?
Shane
jraju:
Hi, yes. I do not know why this behaves.
If i use my hdd drive with the same ram and bios, it works. But when I connect that already installed OS hdd, it does not go past POST .
I will send the details regarding my bios menu as it shows and selected in my next post. would it be because of BIOs. Should one has to remove the cmos to default bios settings and then try that. Why it is not moving past BIOS. I checked the same Hdd with the first computer where the OS was installed and also in my computer, after it is installed correctly. I could also see the contents of other drives when c: was formatted and reinstalled.
Yesterday, i again went to the Bios made in my computer and changed the dvd as first priority and then inserted the dvd to try install again. But it would not go past POST. When i connect the installed hdd, i got the error " Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" It repeats itself after some wait. What it denotes? I will post my bios details.
update: Should i position the hdd in the slots and not outside the computer while checking the hdd drive, as the bios shows the slotwise information in slots in boot configuration menu in bios. Should i not connect the same outside the computer by connecting the same with the other computers power and data card.
Shoud SATA and PaTa have to be checked? is it not auto detect. I tried to boot with the hdd as priority. But it hangs at POST, not moving an inch further, set up starting..... screen
Shane:
Make sure you hook the drive up like it would normally be in the computer, try not to use any externals if you can just so we can try to trace down why the bios is locking up when looking for the drive.
Shane
jraju:
Hi, Shane,
Strange. I asked the same question to Leo and surprised to receive a reply to the effect, it may not success in booting when OS is installed thro other computer. His exact words "The OS install needs to happen on the computer in which the drive is to remain installed".
Does that mean Ram has some memory remained static, so it blocks. Out of 1024 mb ram, 1016 is the read memory, when silent boot is disabled. So, if i remove the ram and reseat it and then also remove cmos battery and try would it work?
Shane, one more thing, i have a clip attached to cmos coin battery?. Is there any easy idea how to eject the same, so that bios could be reset. There is a slight grip on the battery to hold. Please.
Leo words mean that OS could not be installed to the hard drive, in another computer. Is that correct.
I will try your suggestion also to place the hard drive in the slot and try
Update: Could the difference in mother board drivers for the computer that installed OS and the computer of my friend be the reason for not allowing this.
Normally, when we attempt to install windows thro our computer, the mother boards are one and same.
Boggin:
I've already told you the reason why installing an OS onto a HDD on a different computer to the target one will not work when you insert the HDD into the target computer and that is because when you activated it, it registers the motherboard and there will be different drivers.
I think you will need to reformat the disk, reinstall the OS but don't use the product key until you've put the HDD back into the target computer.
This will give you 30 days in which you have activate it, but if the key doesn't now work, then you will need to contact MS for activation.
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