# help with vista install

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**Created:** [January 6, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-vista-install/41366 "2008-01-06T19:07:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-vista-install/41366/7 "2008-01-07T05:02:01Z")

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> [@Djs87](#):
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> What interface are your cd drives? I had this problem with my 680i. I then got a couple sata dvd drives (after the ide drives didnt work) and everything loaded just fine.

IT is ide. I just put this computer together over the weekend. The DVD drive is out of my old computer. It is a HP dvd 840b burner. It read my windows xp disc but it dosent even recognize the vista dvd. What can be the problem? Does it sound like a drive problem or a motherboard problem?

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