hey im working on building a new computer... not new but you'll come to understand very soon...
i bought an old dual processor board [ s2895a2nrf ]
im using dual AMD Opteron 2200mhz processors
[ 8 x 1 gb ] kingston hyper RAM and a 160 seagate Barracuda IDE harddrive.
[ ive got the same hdd thats SATA as well, but ive got a problem ]
i cant figure out how to load the os. i set the cd drive to boot up, windows starts loading, i get the blue screen, sometimes i make it as far as "press enter to install xp", and other times it freezes at "installing windows"and than thats as far as it will run...and than i must restart my computer.
now if i get to "push enter", i try pushing enter and my computer just restarts.
this is rather annoying and it has been as far as i have been able to go without help. someone wanna get on board with this one ?
i have tried both ide and sata, and im getting the same problems. im wondering if i need to install a third party driver ? can someone look into that?
is there anything i need to change on the motherboard to run only one processor? i was suspecting i would need to set a jumper or change something in the bios or something... anything sound necessary to you ?
