P4P800 SATA, WINXP Pro and the rest.

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My machine:
P4 2.4 533MHZ CPU
P4P800
1Gig DDR 333MHZ
2x 80 Gig (Maxtor 6Y080L0)
1x 40 Gig (IBM-DTLA-305040)
1x 160 Gig Maxtor SATA (MA6Y160M0)
Diamond Data 52x24x52 (DD523252) Burner
350W PSU

Ok, I am running Win2k Server on my Primary Master (1x 80 Gig drive)
and just bought a 160 gig SATA drive to install WinXP w/SP1 onto (on a
160G partition).

I am experiencing some sort of problem with my SATA drive where it
just restarts after XP is setup and running at a completely random
time - I may be able to handle a random restart (although this is a
major problem and unacceptable), but my problem is when this occurs I
have not been able to recover XP without reinstalling it all again
(with a full format) as if the file system spits the dummy.... I don't
think I have gotten past maybe 5-6 reboots until this happens.

The last time that it has restarted it was after I successfully
installed WinXP, Falcon 4 & BF1942, then went for a defrag - when I
came back it was restarting into blue screens. This happens even with
my non-boot 40G & 80Gig drives, with the 160Gig drive on its own power
plug, no fans or CD drives etc

Someone please help, I cannot handle going for another XP rebuild
(this will be the 7th or 8th time) only for this to happen again.

Thanks for any help in advance.
 
Possible info. Some of the things you are describing sound like what a
salesman in a retail store told me would happen if I used a cheap power
supply. Now I am not implying yours is cheap, but with that load in may be
inadequate.

I haven't gotten into the Serial ATA thing yet, but have you made sure your
bios is set up to handle that configuration, and does it handle a large hard
drive like that? You might check around and see if that partition size is
OK, because I don't know for sure.

Purely a guess,
Clark
 
Clark said:
Possible info. Some of the things you are describing sound like what a
salesman in a retail store told me would happen if I used a cheap power
supply. Now I am not implying yours is cheap, but with that load in may be
inadequate.

I haven't gotten into the Serial ATA thing yet, but have you made sure your
bios is set up to handle that configuration, and does it handle a large hard
drive like that? You might check around and see if that partition size is
OK, because I don't know for sure.

Purely a guess,
Clark
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Hi Clark,

Thanks for the suggestion, while I was skeptical of the PSU as it came
with the box, but it turned out to be a faulty unit ( it finally
failed ). I now have a 160 SATA Seagate (they were out of Maxtor stock
for the day) which works quite well with no problems on a 160Gig
partition using XP Pro w/SP-1.

Only one install was needed this time :) Thanks.
 
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