Just built pc and having problems! plz help


Ok im going to attempt to explain hehe I know the problem I have is
something minor? :P



My specs-

Dfi lanparty nf4 ultra ?D on board raid controllers

Amd64 3200+ Venice

1 gig(2x512) corsair twinxms1024 (2.2.2.5)

EVGA 6800gt pci-ex16

Atx 500psu

2 seagate barracuda 80gig s-ata150

windows xp pro



The first thing after assembling my comp:



Booted up was trying to run off cd then would say disk error, I then
popped in winxp it booted up went through setup asks me if I wnt to
install windows did that then rqstd me to format specific hd like
normal ? I did one of the hds went through that xp wntd me to reboot ,
rebooted . Goes right into setup again so I formatted other drive . To
my knowledge when it reboots after formatting and installing window
drivers it goes right into installation of windows but it just keeps
repeating the process. So I restarted comp after formatting both drives
it goes back into windows setup and now showing its partitioned on both
drives in setup, one of them shows drive C: in windows setup when its
asking u to format the drive?.. So I rebooted and hit f10 to set hd
array. Added both drives to the right and setting it to stripping then
exited . I then entered bios now before I added those hd?s it showed in
bios in standard cmos my hds showed up under sata 1 and sata 2 after I
setup array and added them in f10 when I go back to standard cmos they
are not there just sata 3 and sata 4 , sata 1 and 2 are missing?. ? (im
sure that?s normal)?.

In cd rom priority it shows:



Both my dvd drive and dvd burner



In hard disk priority its showing



1. Scsi-0 nvidia stripe 149.00 ( is the 11 gigs that?s already used
up from the windows drivers that were installed, damn that?s big)
2. Bootable add ins



In removable priority?s showing :



1. floppy disk( it doesn?t show and specific name not sure if it
should, is my floppy even working??? , it?s a sony)



Network priority?s showing :



1. Lagacy lan card





I rebooted again it shows up on booted up nvidia stripe 149.00 I hit
f10 again and it shows same thing healthy hds both master so I exited.
Now I just let it boot and right after it shows irq numbers and such
then Dmi pool data it says disk read error occurred ctrl alt del to
reboot.



So I rebooted from cd went into setup I then noticed I had a disk labed
sata drivers I guess I do that before win setup by hitting f6 to install
I hit f6 and nothing happens it then problems me unknown mass storage
device scsi or cd rom yadda yadda hit (s)specify specific device or hit
enter to continue , when I hit s it asks me for disk I enter disk in and
it says please wait for like 10 seconds the nit prompts me for disk
again??? Im like wtf??? So I just continued and it goes through same
process as I explained earlier and when I attempt to pick a drive to
install windows on it says Os already on not good to install windows on
it again? but I havn?t fully installed windowsxp on one of them yet?



So my question is that disk I have for those sata drivers is that the
reason why its not letting me install windows? Do I need a start up
disk? Is my floppy not working? If I have a disk in floppy and booted
and it prompt me to take out disk does that mean its working???



Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause , I just built this machine
finally and I cant figure how to install windows on my hd hehe I guess
im just a windows xp noob?.. I know u might get confused but its pretty
straight forward I haven?t done much and I know I have everything hooked
up right :P let me know if your confused L I don?t really have anyone to
talk to or to help me out , I just know this comp will scream when I get
it working right J


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