First post, by th1r5bvn23
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Got a MSI 850 Pro2 mobo and tried to install Windows XP but failed. It always hanged at boot screen or 2nd stage installation with hdd led always on but in fact no activity. Tried both a STEC 8GB CF card and a WD 80GB IDE hdd which were detected by BIOS correctly. (primary master)
Also I found a weird behavior when using that WD hdd. Fdisk from 98SE boot disk reported ~11GB and after reboot it reports ~10GB.
I couldn't boot into preinstall environment either. I used a Samsung TS-H652H IDE DVD writer to boot from a all-in-one preinstall environment CD. With 2003 PE I failed at loading ramdisk and it reported cannot read file, and with XP PE I hanged up at loading shell (explorer, a customed PE).
Since there was no bluescreen I doubt there was problem with IDE controller (ICH2 southbridge), but PE failed too and it made me confused. What should be the problem?
Edit: My PSU don't have 6pin AUX connector. It's a Delta NX350.
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