MA770T-UD3P - Not booting on Freshhhhh

[kaon]

Hi everyone,

Hopefully i don't make my self look like an idiot, but this is a brand new build and I am trying to do a fresh windows 7 64 install.

I have a IDE DVD-Rom from the stone age and a sata hard drive.  The jumper pin is in master setting for the ROM and im using the end to end piece on the IDE.  No jumper for the sata obv, but using the end sata connector on the rail.

In the bios it is set up as

Master 0 - DVD-ROM
Slave 0
Master 1
Slave 1
Master 2 - HDD
Slave 2
and so on

I have it set up to boot from the cd-rom first, then hdd.

Put the boot disk in, but the drive doesn't boot. "disk boot failure" although i know the disk works.  its brand new genuine and when tried in my xp laptop it knew it wasn't a compatible version.

The HD is plugged in the SATA 0 slot on the mobo.

I also tried switching the jumper from master to cable select on the rom and that did nothing.  I don't even hear the rom speed up when i put the disk in.  so maybe its broke?  maybe i should stop being cheap and get modern with a sata rom?

thanks for your help and time!

[r9ball]

This doesn't help with your question but I like to use a 4gb or 8gb bootable USB thumb drive with the Win 7 DVD contents copied over to it. For me it installs much faster than off DVD... not much help but maybe handy for future

[kaon]

figured it out.

solved.

[Dark Mantis]

No power to the drive? Please post your solution to the problem just so anyone else with the same problem might be helped.