I just replaced my Graphics card w/ a GeForce4 TI4280

and replaced my Athlon XP 1600 with a Athlon XP 2200.


My motherboard is a Abit KR7A.

So i installed the new hardware and turned on the computer and an error pops up after it checks the devices and boot saying

"Secondary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed" - My secondary IDE is for my CD Drives.

under this theirs the message

"CMOS checksum error- Default loaded."


After i hit F1 to bypass this instead of loading windows i get the message

"NTLDR is missing"
and it asks me to Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

Does anyone know what is going ??

8/1/2006 6:49:04 PM

actually i solved the IDE cable problem and the check sum error but i'm still getting the error


NTLDR is missing

[Edited on August 1, 2006 at 6:52 PM. Reason : l]

8/1/2006 6:50:04 PM

i narrowed the problem to my backup hard-drive, which is the one my system boots off of. Their was a reason for this but forgot why. oh well i'll fix this latr

8/1/2006 7:06:19 PM

why did you post this? this isn't your blog

8/1/2006 7:13:44 PM

i was having a lot of problems but now i just want to know what NTLDR is missing means

8/1/2006 7:41:13 PM

it means you haven't figured out how to use google i guess

8/1/2006 7:47:10 PM

you need to change the boot order of your hard drives, NTLDR is missing means there's no boot sector (no OS) on the drive it's trying to boot from...

[Edited on August 1, 2006 at 10:03 PM. Reason : .]

8/1/2006 10:02:46 PM