JasJay

Changed the IDE jumpers to Masters/Slaves and its all working great now, case closed.

Hello, I took my Advent T9102 apart as it was really old and was slowly going down hill. I took the decent parts out and put them in my Advent T9308. Everything starts up and works fine but the DVDRW drive I put in a spare bay isn't appearing under device manager, but I can see it in the Bios? If I just plug in the original Dual layer DVD±RW drive its registered in the bios and shows up under device manager and my computer, but as soon as I plug in the Advent T9102 Pioneer DVR-108DB DVDRW drive as well, it appears in the bios and nothing comes up under device manager or my computer, not only does it not come up but the original Dual layer DVD±RW drive completely disappears from both the bios and my computer/device manager like its been replaced :confused: I just want both DVDRW drives to show up in bios and show up in device manager/my computer? Can anyone tell me how to do this? I am running Windows 7 Ultimate. Thanks.

Case closed, failed hard drive and RAM stick causing desktop not to post. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the welcome and quick reply. I have Windows 7 Professional full edition. Windows Vista was also the full version not the upgrade version. The CDROM is first in the boot order but I believe I disabled the hard drives to make sure the only thing that can boot is the CDROM drive. Unfortunately when Windows 7 crashed the furthest I can get to is the blow screens and my keyboard commands don't seem to be going to the desktop. Is there any way to get into the bios setup without a keyboard command? Its 80% of the time stuck on this screen: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/607/mypost2.jpg/[/url] 20% of the time it gets to the post screen then stops: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/507/mypost.jpg/

Hello, Can you help me with the following problem please? I have an Advent T9102 and Advent T9308, due to the Advent T9102 being really old and having a few problems and consistently crashing, I decided to take the Hard Drive out of it and make use of it in my Advent T9308 and reformat the whole machine and install Windows 7. Due to my Advent T9308 being Windows XP I first upgraded it to Windows Vista to get all the necessary Windows 7 drivers. Everything worked great once upgraded to Windows Vista. I then used my USB stick to install Windows 7. When I restarted the Advent T9308 I booted the USB stick and it started loading the Windows files, I deleted all the partitions on the hard drives and reformated the drives. The installation screen came up and I followed the screen prompts. When it got to the installing Windows part it shot the percentage straight up for the "Copying Windows files" which was odd, but then the "Expanding Windows files" it froze at 1%, I knew it froze because I left it for 30mins and it didn't go up a percentage. I decided to hold the power button for 5 seconds and restart the machine. On restart the machine got stuck on the very first Advent screen, it currently has "Press DEL to run Setup, Press TAB to display BIOS POST Message", but it doesn't matter what button I press on the keyboard nothing loads up?? Obviously no Windows will load up as I deleted the Windows partitions. I am just trying to get the machine to boot up the USB, or, CD so I can install Windows 7, but the machine wont get past the first screen, just before the post bios screen. The machine fans are spinning, the motherboard light is on, no beeps at start up, if you just listened to it it sounds like everything is ok, but its not getting past the Advent first screen?? :confused: Any help would be great. Thanks.