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- December 19 2008 : 1:59a
| Quote: Well, this became a huge PITA!. I tried loading my very old windows XP with ni Service packs & did the F6 to load the SATA drivers...NOT!
I got the blue screen of death so I 1st started changing bios settings, no go, disconnected 1 hard drive & reinstalled the jumper on #1 hd for 150 instead of 300, no go, took out the sound card, nope, went back to 1 vid card, nope.... I was getting the feeling all along that my version of XP had no clue so I went down & spent $269 with tax for Vista home 32 bit. It took right off, I've loaded windows & the MB drivers & am downloading updates right now, then I guess my HD software needs to be next to see the other SATA HD. Whats amazing is that Windows see's all 4 gigs of ram???? |
Huckster- I had this problem as well. Since XP is no longer "officially" supported by MS (and Vista doesn't experience this issue during install), XP has trouble recognizing the newer SATA generation controllers. To work around it, you have to "slipstream" (or modify the XP installer) with the proper drivers for your motherboard. Check out a tool called nedit- Its very easy to use and allows you to do this. There is a catch though- You need to find a driver for your motherboard's SATA controller that is supported by XP. Since MS was kind enough to cut off support for XP to boost Vista sales (which is why you're having this problem- No updated XP installer has been released since), finding that specific driver could be a daunting task. Search google, look into the XFX forums (and support section) and see if you can't track down this driver.
I personally went through the same crap to install XP on a brand new laptop. It was pure luck that somebody had already figured out the problem and was nice enough to post a link to the driver. But to be honest, I now dualboot both XP and Vista. I'm very happy with Vista though- It actually runs quite well.
Your setup should have NO issues with Vista either. Just keep your system virus and spyware free and it should be a beast!
Best of luck!
-Kevin Wolf | |
RHuckster
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- January 5 : 2:04p
| Thanks!
I should recieve my 3rd HD today for a little upgrade & I'm going to order(upgrade) my video to start with a single BFG GeForce GTX 280 Video Card - OCX Edition, 1GB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0 x16, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, HDMI Support, VGA Support & when I get another $360 I'll go back to SLI mode. Pretty sad I guess to start upgrading as soon as finish building one but I guess I didn't do my homework on whats best. I have read that the new single card will blow the doors off my dual cards setup that I have right now but thats what I get for low balling it.
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- January 5 : 2:27p
| | By the time you do all your research, order your products and wait for them to be shipped, something new and better will come along. It's just the nature of the beast. | |
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- January 10 : 1:01a
| Change of plans. Dropped in the 3rd HD so I'm now running with 3 500Gig internal HD's & 1 Ext. 500Gig HD. The change is the video cards. For what I use my PC for & what I've read all I need is 2 9800GTX+ running in SLI mode so thats what I've ordered plus a Ultra X3 ULT40064 1000-Watt Power Supply - ATX, SATA-Ready, PCI-E Ready, Energy Efficient, Modular. Maybe the video & PSU is a bit extreme for what I need but hey....who knows..
Rick | |
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- January 13 : 10:22p
| just bought a new monitor, the 22inch HP that you can turn sideways.. wish the wires were longer tho..
now I need to upgrade graphics cards again, waiting till I can afford to spend atleast 200 bux on a good one..
running xp pro, my computer sees the 4gigs of gaming ram, only question is how much of that is it using.. I hear different things about that.. but that it wont see any more then 4gigs worth.. my motherboard will take a lot more ram then that tho.. if Im only utilizing 3 of those gigs then thats fine.. its still pretty fast..
especially with my quad-core black edition processor, which is not overclocked currently..
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- January 20 : 1:01p
| Holy crap, I just recieved the 2 Vid cards & power supply...these things are huge, double wide cards x2 & the power suppy I'm wondering if it can even support the weight. We will see tomorrow but theres going to be no spare room in this ATX case, all the drive bays are full, all the slots are either used or covered by the vid cards. This thing better scream when I'm done. I've also got the CPU overclocked running @ 6300+.
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- January 20 : 1:06p
| | Man, that's a lot of horsepower! Betcha Solitare really flies on that thing! | |
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- January 21 : 1:43a
|  I guess I'll have to try it to see how fast the cards flip across the screen. I'm a Links golf & Sim City 4 user usually.
You see I'm done with modding cars so I have to have something to mod.
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- January 21 : 7:38a
| I'm really trying to get this thing ready for some major high end graphics for our building/base automation @ work.
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- January 23 : 11:05a
| OK, that was a huge pain. The Power supply was no problem but the vid cards where something else. I had to remove the clip system the case comes with to hold down the cards instead of screws. It wouldn't except dual wide cards, also I had to use the 1 SATA cable I special ordered for the 3rd HD for #1 SATA drive with the 90 deg. to clear 1 card, moved #3 SATA to # 4 until I can get some more SATA cables with 90 deg. on both ends. Also had to remove the HD cage until the cards where in & couldn't put the side support screws in but theres still 4 screws holding the cage in from the bottom. Now my Sound card barely puts any volume out, not sure if its the SB card or the cheap speakers...thats another day. "sigh"
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- January 23 : 12:16p
| | I sure hope DrSpeed doesn't come along and try to decifer what you just said. I can see the headlines now, "Asian man found with head imploded" | |
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- January 23 : 2:52p
| | Your System would be perfect for running COD 5 at max performace. | |
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- January 23 : 5:50p
| Not sure what your trying to say here Tom?
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- January 31 : 1:53p
| Heres my update, I ended up buying a external Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB for the sound card & a Logitech Z-2300 THX Certified 2.1 200-watt RMS Speaker System.
Had problems getting the X-Fi going but its running now, the Logitech speakers are totally friggin awesome. Maybe not as clear of highs that I would have liked but the Bass is huge. Shakes my house @ 25%!!
My next upgrade is going to a XFX nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard CPU Bundle - OEM, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 Processor 2.66GHz OEM & overclocking to 3400 with a good cooling system which I think comes out to 6800MHZ, then 4 gigs of ram with heat sinks & last but not least 2 SATA DVD burners. Going totally away from IDE.
This thing will cook when I'm done. Then I guess I'll need to buy a case & HD & install all my fairly new extra parts in it so my wife will have an upgraded computer as well.
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- January 31 : 9:34p
| When I put mine together first thing I did was throw that clip system out, as for everything else it sounds like you built a kick ass system  | |
RHuckster
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- February 1 : 7:12a
| Thanks, I'm looking forward to upgrading to a Intel processor. I've found in the past the Intels are more stable than the AMDs but I thought I ewould give them 1 more chance. It tends to lock up under pretty heavy processing ocassionally.
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- February 4 : 10:04a
| I am running an AMD 6400 with 1 8800 GTX G-Force on an Asus Crosshair MB with all together 1.25 TB of hard drive with 4 GB of Ram.
With what I do with it I haven't had any issues, but I have not gone wild with overclocking either.
One day I might get the other Video card, but at the time I built it I was sort of on a tight budget.
The beauty of it is I can upgrade anything I want now | |
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- February 14 : 11:17a
| OK, I'm in need of some serious therapy!!
I gave my wife my computer I just built minus my (2)9800GTX+,my 1000W Power supply & 2 of the HD's.
Heres what my wife ends with:
Ultra X-Blaster ATX Black Mid-Tower Case with Clear Side, Front USB, FireWire and Audio Ports
Ultra LSP750 750-Watt Power Supply - ATX, SATA-Ready, SLI-Ready, 135mm Fan
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard - NVIDIA 750a SLI, Socket AM2/AM2+, ATX, Audio, Video, HDMI, DVI, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN. S/PDIF, USB 2.0, eSATA, RAID
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition Processor ADO5400DSWOF - 2.80GHz, Socket AM2, 1MB Cache, 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) FSB, Dual Core, Brisbane, Processor, No fan
Ultra X-Wind Aluminum Socket K8/AM2 CPU Cooling Fan
2-Ultra Performance 120mm Case Fan - Dual Ball Bearing
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy
2-Sony DRUV200A/BR DVD/CD Rewritable IDE Retail Drive
Sabrent CRW-FLP2 Floppy Drive w/USB 2.0 Internal Card Reader & Writer (SDHC & Vista ready)
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 2048MB)
2-XFX GeForce 9600 GSO Video Card - 768MB DDR2, PCI Express 2.0, Dual Link DVI, SLI Ready
1-Seagate 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
Heres what I just finished building for myself:
XFX nForce 680i LT SLI Socket 775 Motherboard OEM
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Ghz Socket 775 CPU
Masscool 8WA741 CPU FAN w/Heat Pipes 775
Ultra X3 1000w PSU
2-EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX + 512MB PCIe w/Dual Link DVI
2-Sony 20X DVDRW SATA Retail
2-Seagate 1TB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
2-Seagate 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
OCZ Reaper 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz (2x2048MB)
NZXT Tempest Blk ATX Mid Tower Case
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB
Logitech Z2300 Spk/2.1 200W RMS 400W 8in Subwoofer
Yes...I've lost it!
Rick
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- February 14 : 12:01p
| | And who are you going to give this one to? | |
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- May 22 : 12:39p
| A little update, replaced the 2 500 Gig HD's with 2 more 1 TB HD's & purchased a iStarUSA xAGE902DU-SAU Hard Drive Dock - 2-Bay for the 2 500 Gig HD's I pulled out of the computer.
So heres where it stands right now:
XFX nForce 680i LT SLI Socket 775 Motherboard OEM
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Ghz Socket 775 CPU overclocked to 3.3Ghz
Masscool 8WA741 CPU FAN w/Heat Pipes 775
Ultra X3 1000w PSU
2-EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX + 512MB PCIe w/Dual Link DVI
2-Sony 20X DVDRW SATA Retail
4-Seagate 1TB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
iStarUSA xAGE902DU-SAU Hard Drive Dock - 2-Bay
2-Seagate 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G for back-up
OCZ Reaper 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz (2x2048MB)
NZXT Tempest Blk ATX Mid Tower Case
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB
Logitech Z2300 Spk/2.1 200W RMS 400W 8in Subwoofer
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- May 22 : 3:37p
| | I just put 4GB of RAM in my year-old MacBook Pro. | |
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- May 22 : 5:32p
| | I recently changed the batteries in my wireless keyboard and mouse. | |
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- May 22 : 5:35p
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- May 22 : 5:59p
| | I can't afford crap! All I've done is empty my bit-bucket lately. | |
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