MSI P965 Platinum and DVD-R Drive

[Alaster]

Well, to start...I'm a 2nd quarter student at a local college.  I was assigned to install XP on a machine, but there's a few problems.

1)  The media the teacher gave us is not bootable.
2)  I'm using a crappy motherboard that doesn't recognize my IDE DVD drive.
It's an MSI P965 Platinum.
3)  I got the drivers for the drive, but it still isn't working.
4)  My teacher said to go to the MSI website and download their boot disk for DOS/98, but I couldn't find the boot disk.

I guess the question is, where's the Windows' boot disk for my motherboard?

[Alaster]

Bump.  Any help within the next 8 hours would be greatly appreciated.

[Shynnie]

Lets wait for more experties on this matter.
All i know is that you can boot from a cd since yours is not being recognised.

Good luck

[patio]

Is there a floppy drive on this machine ? ?
If so DLoad the WinME boot disk from bootdisk.com and create a bootable floppy to start the machine.
Grab the one with CDRom support and you should then have access to your DVD drive.

[Alaster]

Sorry, guess I should have mentioned the floppy bit too.

I'm using a Win98 boot disk to load the machine.  The floppy has the drivers I found on the manufacturer's website, but it still isn't allowing me to view my CD contents.  Once I'm able to pull files from the CD, I'm good to go.

My problem is simple:  my DVD-ROM drive is IDE, and my motherboard only recognizes SATA.

[WillyW]

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My problem is simple:  my DVD-ROM drive is IDE, and my motherboard only recognizes SATA.

If that were true, then you've answered your question -  you've said that your  components are incompatible.  Therefore what you want to do would be impossible with just those components.   You'd have to add an interface card.

Fortunately for you,  I think that is incorrect.
Is this:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130055
and
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=P965_Platinum&class=mb
your motherboard?

If so,   on the newegg page,  see where it says:
"Storage Devices
PATA    1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max"
That is saying that board supports two IDE drives on one cable.

Also see:
On-Board IDE
          
"One Ultra DMA 66/100/133 IDE controller integrated in JMicron JMB361
•    Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes
•    Can connect up to 2 Ultra ATA 133 drives  "

on the MSI page.   It says the same, with more detail.

So, if that is your mb,  then it will handle IDE drives. 

The floppy has the drivers I found on the manufacturer's website, but it still isn't allowing me to view my CD contents.

Instead, do what patio suggested.

[patio]

There are a ton of contradictions in your posts...
If the machine boots with a Win98 CD then the MBoard recognises the drive so that's not the issue:
Then you say the floppy took a dump yet you were able to boot from it:

I personally don't think this is a school project at all with all the conflicting info given...rather it sounds like you're trying to get a botched copy of an OS to install...

If i'm incorrect here have your teacher e-mail me with what the assignment actually is.

[Alaster]

There are a ton of contradictions in your posts...
If the machine boots with a Win98 CD then the MBoard recognises the drive so that's not the issue:
Then you say the floppy took a dump yet you were able to boot from it:

I personally don't think this is a school project at all with all the conflicting info given...rather it sounds like you're trying to get a botched copy of an OS to install...

If i'm incorrect here have your teacher e-mail me with what the assignment actually is.

Where did I ever say I used a Win98 CD?

Anyways, I figured out the issue.  I had to disable ACPI in BIOS.