Web's AMD Dualcore gift, Take II

[orange]

It works too!

I'm not sure the board likes Cable Select though...no drives registered

 

[Web Police]

You have to enable the sta or ide chipsets in bios. There is an Nvidia cip and a silicon chipset for the drives. "If you are using jumpers then you must be using IDE which will need to be enabled in bios also.

 

[orange]

Now I need to locate another power cord so I don't have to keep unplugging this monitor to power the 'Cornea'.

 

[Web Police]

What is the cornea? is that your name for your computer?

 

[orange]

It's the brand of the little 15" flatscreen monitor you sent me some time back.

 

[Web Police]

Is it a standard computer power cord?

 

[orange]

I've got plenty of 'em, Navo sent one in my SS package even. I just have to locate the box of them, which will happen soon enough as I'm cleaning the place up for a housing inspection this month.

 

[Whoreo]

Are you selling the house? Whats the inspection for?

 

[orange]

Yearly recertification of rental assistance.

Even if I weren't on a fixed monthly income I would not BUY a house.

 

[orange]

And Asus A8N-SLI has no such switching in the BIOS. I'm going to have to set them up Slave and Master.

 

[Web Police]

Nope you can enable and disable the ports in bios, slave and master need to be set on the devices.

 

[orange]

What happened once I got the drives right:

 

[Web Police]

Looks good till that last screen. Try booting in safe mode and see what happens?

 

[orange]

CPU FAN FAIL speed is set at 1200 rpm, the fan seems fast enough to me.

 

[Web Police]

Set it too 600. It is really just there to tell you if the fan totally stops.

 

[orange]

Turned it off as it gave the same warning at 800 as well and those were the only two speed options. Proceeded straight through to the BSOD and removing the slave didn't help. Only thing left to remove is the audio card and use the onboard audio, if the drivers are disabled though it would matter would it? NO.

Other drives are WD800BB, WD400 and Maxtor 6L100PO (DiamondMax 10) Slave is a 320 GB Maxtor.

 

[Web Police]

Yes, the board might blue screen because of the hardware installed if the drivers are disabled. Best off to remove any add on devices not part of the motherboard. Get it to boot cleanly and then you can start adding external devices one a a time. Probably do the same thing with all the drives. That way you will know which devices is the offending one,

 

[orange]

Did that, no dice. At least I got a good CR2032 cell in the CMOS now,

Can't even get to the no boot disk warning yet on the other two that respond and register. Just sits there after listing the IRQs. The floppy registers okay and the hard drives too, SMART monitoring is seemingly a drinking buddy with them.

 

[Web Police]

What OS are you trying to boot into and was it originally installed on that computer? If not that is your problem. You can seldom swap a win xp or above drive from one computer to another without the blue screens. If they both use the same chipset you might be able to get away with it, but if not the drivers will not match up to the hardware installed.

 

[orange]

You can use it as a slave and sometimes in a dual boot. I'm wondering if I ought to get the CD drive hooked in as maybe it's looking there as well as the floppy...really I don't know but I'll get at it this week.