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jonah
Sorry this is a bit involved, its not half as confusing as the real
thing though![Cool 8-) 8-)](/styles/default/custom/smilies/cool.gif)
Gigabyte KN8SC-939 MOBO
Athalon 3800 X2 Processor
2 GB RAM
PNY Nvidia 6800GT Graphics
2 x 80Gb Hitachi Deskstar SATA HDDs
Seasonic 500 Watt PSU
Bespoke Case with more than enough cooling (IMO) CPU is nowhere near
temp cutout but then has not actually done any real work yet.
Having severe difficulty with this set up, Installed latest BIOS, All
latest MOBO & VC Drivers I can find and I have been through the BIOS
Settings many times but I am confused, it looks right, but I cannot
tell if it is OK or not because the info I have is very basic and
relates to RAID setup mainly, I don't want a RAID array just a couple
of fast HDDs.
POST is OK, SATA Drives are recognised, XP Installs just fine but for
some reason at some point during the set up I get chkdsk errors on
startup which clear OK but that is later followed by a re-start hang
at the Windows Splash Screen. The hang can only be cleared by a "hard
power reset and a "use last good config". A full power off, power on
reboot works fine so I am a bit puzzled by this.
I am not sure if the chkdsk / reboot problems are related but the one
follows the other after a couple of re-starts, also I am not seeing
the "saving settings" during the re-start power down which I reckon is
significant.
Tried to backtrack out of the problem by undoing my recent steps but
no good. Cannot re-install an image as it is corrupt however a
reformat / re-install followed by installing the same image works no
problem so obviously the image is not corrupt.
Eventually I got fed up and used 2 x IDE Drives instead, the setup
went fine without any problems, which tells me its the MOBO / Drives /
BIOS or all of the above but does not help much to solve the issue.
PC is working very well but I want to use my SATA drives. I have tried
the manufactorers websites for the MOBO and the HDDs FAQs but can find
nothing useful.
Any help - SATA / BIOS related how tos etc whatever would be
appreciated. I have saved up and got the parts for this PC for a long
time now and it is very frustrating not being able to use it.
TIA
Jonah
thing though
![Cool 8-) 8-)](/styles/default/custom/smilies/cool.gif)
Gigabyte KN8SC-939 MOBO
Athalon 3800 X2 Processor
2 GB RAM
PNY Nvidia 6800GT Graphics
2 x 80Gb Hitachi Deskstar SATA HDDs
Seasonic 500 Watt PSU
Bespoke Case with more than enough cooling (IMO) CPU is nowhere near
temp cutout but then has not actually done any real work yet.
Having severe difficulty with this set up, Installed latest BIOS, All
latest MOBO & VC Drivers I can find and I have been through the BIOS
Settings many times but I am confused, it looks right, but I cannot
tell if it is OK or not because the info I have is very basic and
relates to RAID setup mainly, I don't want a RAID array just a couple
of fast HDDs.
POST is OK, SATA Drives are recognised, XP Installs just fine but for
some reason at some point during the set up I get chkdsk errors on
startup which clear OK but that is later followed by a re-start hang
at the Windows Splash Screen. The hang can only be cleared by a "hard
power reset and a "use last good config". A full power off, power on
reboot works fine so I am a bit puzzled by this.
I am not sure if the chkdsk / reboot problems are related but the one
follows the other after a couple of re-starts, also I am not seeing
the "saving settings" during the re-start power down which I reckon is
significant.
Tried to backtrack out of the problem by undoing my recent steps but
no good. Cannot re-install an image as it is corrupt however a
reformat / re-install followed by installing the same image works no
problem so obviously the image is not corrupt.
Eventually I got fed up and used 2 x IDE Drives instead, the setup
went fine without any problems, which tells me its the MOBO / Drives /
BIOS or all of the above but does not help much to solve the issue.
PC is working very well but I want to use my SATA drives. I have tried
the manufactorers websites for the MOBO and the HDDs FAQs but can find
nothing useful.
Any help - SATA / BIOS related how tos etc whatever would be
appreciated. I have saved up and got the parts for this PC for a long
time now and it is very frustrating not being able to use it.
TIA
Jonah