Building up a new system. It's about my 5th build, and I've never had a problem before. Puzzled by this one.
Overview:
- Installing W7 on a fresh hard drive
- Building around a Gigbyte GA-EP43-UD3L MB and Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 processor.
- Have single clean SATA HDD installed, and two IDE DVD-RW drives. The DVD drives worked just fine yesterday.
- I've initially set BIOS to boot from "CDROM" first, HDD second.
- BIOS appears to recognize that a DVD drive is attached. Right now, with only a single one connected, it shows up on IDE 4 Master.
- The Win7 64 bit DVD boots fine in other computers. It's not that.
What happens on power up:
- Normal looking BIOS startup
- Message: "Boot from CD/DVD:"
I hear CD spinning
Then "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD..." (so I press a key)
- Slight delay, then get message "BootMGR is missing, press CTL+ALt+del to restart"
- I then changed settings, disabled boot from anything but CDROM, in case of a delay in booting from the CD that the MB interprets as a need to go to the second boot device. Same result.
Am I missing something really basic?
Overview:
- Installing W7 on a fresh hard drive
- Building around a Gigbyte GA-EP43-UD3L MB and Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 processor.
- Have single clean SATA HDD installed, and two IDE DVD-RW drives. The DVD drives worked just fine yesterday.
- I've initially set BIOS to boot from "CDROM" first, HDD second.
- BIOS appears to recognize that a DVD drive is attached. Right now, with only a single one connected, it shows up on IDE 4 Master.
- The Win7 64 bit DVD boots fine in other computers. It's not that.
What happens on power up:
- Normal looking BIOS startup
- Message: "Boot from CD/DVD:"
I hear CD spinning
Then "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD..." (so I press a key)
- Slight delay, then get message "BootMGR is missing, press CTL+ALt+del to restart"
- I then changed settings, disabled boot from anything but CDROM, in case of a delay in booting from the CD that the MB interprets as a need to go to the second boot device. Same result.
Am I missing something really basic?