I ordered this computer from envisioncs.net:
AMD T-Bird 1400MHz 266MHz FSB
512MB PC2400 DDR SDRAM CAS 2 (two 256MB sticks)
IBM Deskstar 40GB ATA100 7200RPM
Pioneer DVD-106S
Gainward Cardex GeForce 3
SoundBlaster Live! X-Gamer 5.1
Windows 2000 Pro
case, floppy, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc.
Well, I get it home, plug everything in, turn it on...
Boots to desktop.
Well everything is okay except that I'm a MORON and I had the keyboard and mouse in the wrong !@#$ing PS/2 ports (they were each in the other's port)! I feel so stupid! I was just used to plugging them into this old thing, where they are opposite. Anyway, I thought it was just frozen because the keyboard and mouse "weren't working." So I hit the power button but a message saying something about nVidia popped up (proving that it wasn't frozen). I held the power button as I tried to read it but the system shut down before I could gather what the message said. So I just switched the mouse and keyboard and thought, "No big deal, right?"
WRONG! I hit the powerbutton again and am greeted with a lovely "NTLDR is missing. Hit ctrl+alt+del to restart." What in the hell? Restart and recieve the same error.
So I got on the 'net on this old thing and looked up "NTLDR is missing." I gathered that is happens for a couple of reasons. 1. You have a floppy or CD in one of the drives. Nope. 2. You are dual-booting Win9x and Win2k. Nope, neither of those are me. I found something about booting from the Win2k Pro CD and hitting "R" for repair so I went into the BIOS and set it to boot from CD-ROM. I restarted and when it said "hit a key to boot from CD-ROM," or whatever, so I did and the Win2k setup stuff came up. I hit "R" for repair but it said it couldn't find a harddrisk and then rebooted. I then tried the same thing but hit ENTER to "Setup Win2k now," or whatever, and it gave me the same error.
I thought maybe the harddrive wasn't connected right so I opened the case. The DVD drive is connected to IDE 1 and the harddrive is connected to IDE 3. I checked all the IDE cables and they seemed to be connected correctly. Still didn't work.
In the BIOS the boot sequence is set to Floppy, IDE0, CDR0M.
This computer is a crappy little AMD K6 200MHz, 64MB RAM running Windows 98, incase it could be used to help.
EnvisionCS isn't open 'till Tuesday and I really need some help with this.
Thanks a lot in advance!
AMD T-Bird 1400MHz 266MHz FSB
512MB PC2400 DDR SDRAM CAS 2 (two 256MB sticks)
IBM Deskstar 40GB ATA100 7200RPM
Pioneer DVD-106S
Gainward Cardex GeForce 3
SoundBlaster Live! X-Gamer 5.1
Windows 2000 Pro
case, floppy, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc.
Well, I get it home, plug everything in, turn it on...
Boots to desktop.
Well everything is okay except that I'm a MORON and I had the keyboard and mouse in the wrong !@#$ing PS/2 ports (they were each in the other's port)! I feel so stupid! I was just used to plugging them into this old thing, where they are opposite. Anyway, I thought it was just frozen because the keyboard and mouse "weren't working." So I hit the power button but a message saying something about nVidia popped up (proving that it wasn't frozen). I held the power button as I tried to read it but the system shut down before I could gather what the message said. So I just switched the mouse and keyboard and thought, "No big deal, right?"
WRONG! I hit the powerbutton again and am greeted with a lovely "NTLDR is missing. Hit ctrl+alt+del to restart." What in the hell? Restart and recieve the same error.
So I got on the 'net on this old thing and looked up "NTLDR is missing." I gathered that is happens for a couple of reasons. 1. You have a floppy or CD in one of the drives. Nope. 2. You are dual-booting Win9x and Win2k. Nope, neither of those are me. I found something about booting from the Win2k Pro CD and hitting "R" for repair so I went into the BIOS and set it to boot from CD-ROM. I restarted and when it said "hit a key to boot from CD-ROM," or whatever, so I did and the Win2k setup stuff came up. I hit "R" for repair but it said it couldn't find a harddrisk and then rebooted. I then tried the same thing but hit ENTER to "Setup Win2k now," or whatever, and it gave me the same error.
I thought maybe the harddrive wasn't connected right so I opened the case. The DVD drive is connected to IDE 1 and the harddrive is connected to IDE 3. I checked all the IDE cables and they seemed to be connected correctly. Still didn't work.
In the BIOS the boot sequence is set to Floppy, IDE0, CDR0M.
This computer is a crappy little AMD K6 200MHz, 64MB RAM running Windows 98, incase it could be used to help.
EnvisionCS isn't open 'till Tuesday and I really need some help with this.
Thanks a lot in advance!
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