Trouble with GA-970-UD3

[firstBuild92]

Hello,

I am attempting to build my first PC and and after I assembled everything i turned the power on and it prompted me to insert an OS. After doing so The screen then turned black and the "Loading Operating System ..." message popped up on a black screen.  Since this was my first build I thought everything was running smoothly but the message had not changed after approx. 30 min. I assumed I had done something wrong (being new and all) so I powered down the computer after taking out the OS disc. Now when I power on the system  it jumps straight to the "Loading Operating System ..." message again even though there is no disc in the drive.  After reading other posts I thought I needed to possibly change the BIOS settings but from this screen I am not sure how to access them.  Any suggestions would be appreciated. I hope someone can help.

Thanks

[rscott521]

Is the cd/dvd drive selected in bios as the 1st boot device? Can you list all parts of your build please.

[firstBuild92]

Parts for my build:
 Processor: AMD FX-6200 Zambezi 3.8GHz Socket AM3+ 125 W Six-Core Desktop
 MoBo: GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD
 RAM: G.Skill Ares Series 8Gb 240 pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866
 Graphics Card: XFX FX-775A-ZNP4 Radeon HD 7750 Core Edition 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 X 16 HDCP ready video card
 Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Bare Drive
 PSU: Antec NEO ECO 620C 620W Continuous Power ATX12v 80 plus certified Active PFC power supply

I just changed it under "Advanced BIOS Features" First Boot Device.  There are many choices but i assume the cd/dvd drive is the "CDROM" choice, I also made my Hard Drive the Second boot option (i hope this is ok). After changing the settings I am getting the message

   Loading Operating System ...
   Boot from CD/DVD :

The screen has been unchanged for approx 15 min or so.

Please excuse my ignorance if i ask or say something seemingly obvious.Ha

 

[rscott521]

That sounds correct. Give it a try, you aint gonna hurt anything.

[firstBuild92]

it began giving me messages like "USB support successfully initialized" and copyright information. Now it is prompting me to input something it says

[DR-DOS] A:\>_

do you know what i'm supposed to input here?

[rscott521]

Are you attempting to install Windows XP with a copied install disc? Are you using a usb cd drive?

[firstBuild92]

I guess so my roommate gave me A disc he said was Windows XP with a product key. I'm going to get windows 7 tomorrow I was just anxious to see if everything was running correctly so i thought i would try this and just uninstall it later. I've since learned that DR-DOS is run by Caldera which is not XP at all. Not exactly what I was hoping for. It's not a USB disc drive.  I suppose i will just wait until i have an OS im more familiar with (or one that is possible to install lol) before tinkering any longer.

I have some quick questions:
1. After I install the OS should i immediately stick in the disc that came with my with my MoBo or should i put in the graphics card installation cd?
2. how do i go about installing drivers? is that something that is done through one of the installation discs i have or is it a separate process in and of itself?

*again i'm sorry if these questions are ignorant

thank you for your help

[rscott521]

Put in the motherboard driver disc and install the drivers. I would install the graphics driver last. After you think you have all drivers installed go to device manager and see if there are any unknown devices. If there are try to do a Windows update to see if it can find any drivers .

[Vezina]

Because the board does not have a floppy controller ,to install XP ,you can either switch in BIOS to IDE Mode all the SATA ports ,either use a slipstreamed XP CD .In this last case you can choose between nLite or Xp Iso Builder so you can add the AMD AHCI driver(the one that requires a Floppy ,device non existent on the board).
Even if you choose the IDE Mode you can switch to AHCI later on.For this scenario :install the HDD to one of the 0-3 ports and the CD Rom to  one of the 4-5 ports,  set the SATA CD Drive port to AHCI mode and let the others on IDE Mode ,install the AMD AHCI driver for the CD Drive via  Device Manager ,restart so the driver gets installed  and then switch in BIOS all ports to AHCI ,it should work.