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djblamire
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 Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:01 pm Post subject: PCChips M848ALU M/Board with AMD Athlon XP 3200+ |
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I have purchased two PCChips M848ALU motherboards, and are having a problem.
It seems to work OK with an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ processor, but not with an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ processor.
If I use the 3200+ it will only power on if the jumper (JP1) has been cleared, and then reset. - It then auto detects as a 1100. I then go into the BIOS (without making changes), and save settings. - When it tries to reboot I just get a blank screen.
I have updated the one of the motherboards with the latest firmware, but still have the same problem. (Although it detects my 2100+ at the correct speed).
I have tried another 3200+ processor, and I am having the same problem.
Anyone got any ideas ??
Thanks in advance,
Daniel |
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DaveW
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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NOW you know why they always tell you to regularly BACK UP YOUR DATA. You
are in a position currently where you basically have no choice but to
reformat and start fresh.
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DaveW
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"nick101181" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:qVvrg.1175$B62.618@fe07.news.easynews.com...
| Quote: | Hello,
what happened was my main harddrive my 250 gig sata that I have
windows xp installed on is not being detected now. I'm trying to
fiddle around with my windows cd and repair console,fixboot.fixmbr.
chkdsk etc etc. to no effect. I've also loaded my sata drivers from a
floppy prior to this. I used to have this ntldr is missing press ctrl
+ alt + del error a lot and somehow I fixed it. I was using my pc and
someone is the house was messing with the breakers and it shut down my
pc in the middle of usage. I noticed ever since i installed that sata
drive that if i crash and don't shut down properly that my pc acts
like the sata drive was never there. anyway the windows recovery
console doesn't even detect my sata drive at all after loading my
drivers from the floppy. I can't afford to just format this drive
because I got it almost full of data that I need. What can I do to
get it going again? thanks
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Ben Dover
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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no@spam.invalid (nick101181) blabbered in news:qVvrg.1175$B62.618
@fe07.news.easynews.com:
| Quote: | Hello,
what happened was my main harddrive my 250 gig sata that I have
windows xp installed on is not being detected now. I'm trying to
fiddle around with my windows cd and repair console,fixboot.fixmbr.
chkdsk etc etc. to no effect. I've also loaded my sata drivers from a
floppy prior to this. I used to have this ntldr is missing press ctrl
+ alt + del error a lot and somehow I fixed it. I was using my pc and
someone is the house was messing with the breakers and it shut down my
pc in the middle of usage. I noticed ever since i installed that sata
drive that if i crash and don't shut down properly that my pc acts
like the sata drive was never there. anyway the windows recovery
console doesn't even detect my sata drive at all after loading my
drivers from the floppy. I can't afford to just format this drive
because I got it almost full of data that I need. What can I do to
get it going again? thanks
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If you haven't installed it yet, get SP2. You should not have to load
SATA drivers with WinXP unless using RAID. A SATA drive as an ordinary
drive does not need extra drivers.
Check Device manager and be sure drive hasn't changed to Virtual. If so
reset it to Basic and reboot - it should come back.
Can we assume the drive shows in BIOS, and that it's set as the primary
boot drive? |
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Rod Speed
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:20 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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Ben Dover <bendme@shakeme.net> wrote:
| Quote: | no@spam.invalid (nick101181) blabbered in news:qVvrg.1175$B62.618
@fe07.news.easynews.com:
Hello,
what happened was my main harddrive my 250 gig sata that I have
windows xp installed on is not being detected now. I'm trying to
fiddle around with my windows cd and repair console,fixboot.fixmbr.
chkdsk etc etc. to no effect. I've also loaded my sata drivers from a
floppy prior to this. I used to have this ntldr is missing press ctrl
+ alt + del error a lot and somehow I fixed it. I was using my pc and
someone is the house was messing with the breakers and it shut down
my pc in the middle of usage. I noticed ever since i installed that
sata drive that if i crash and don't shut down properly that my pc
acts like the sata drive was never there. anyway the windows recovery
console doesn't even detect my sata drive at all after loading my
drivers from the floppy. I can't afford to just format this drive
because I got it almost full of data that I need. What can I do to
get it going again? thanks
If you haven't installed it yet, get SP2. You should not have to load
SATA drivers with WinXP unless using RAID. A SATA drive as an ordinary
drive does not need extra drivers.
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Thats just plain wrong with some motherboards.
| Quote: | Check Device manager and be sure drive hasn't changed to Virtual. If
so reset it to Basic and reboot - it should come back.
Can we assume the drive shows in BIOS, and that it's set as the
primary boot drive? |
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John Weiss
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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"Ben Dover" <bendme@shakeme.net> wrote...
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If you haven't installed it yet, get SP2. You should not have to load
SATA drivers with WinXP unless using RAID. A SATA drive as an ordinary
drive does not need extra drivers.
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Not necessarily true.
Some SATA controllers (e.g., Promise 378) require the RAID drivers even for a
single drive, because a single physical drive is mounted as a "striped array
with 1 drive." |
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JAD
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:56 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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"John Weiss" <jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet> wrote in
message news:K6ydnTQugpcwYjPZnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@comcast.com...
| Quote: | "Ben Dover" <bendme@shakeme.net> wrote...
If you haven't installed it yet, get SP2. You should not have to load
SATA drivers with WinXP unless using RAID. A SATA drive as an ordinary
drive does not need extra drivers.
Not necessarily true.
Some SATA controllers (e.g., Promise 378) require the RAID drivers even
for a
single drive, because a single physical drive is mounted as a "striped
array
with 1 drive."
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Keyword SP2...... |
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John Weiss
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:11 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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"JAD" <kapasitor@earthcharter.net> wrote...
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If you haven't installed it yet, get SP2. You should not have to load
SATA drivers with WinXP unless using RAID. A SATA drive as an ordinary
drive does not need extra drivers.
Not necessarily true.
Some SATA controllers (e.g., Promise 378) require the RAID drivers even for a
single drive, because a single physical drive is mounted as a "striped array
with 1 drive."
Keyword SP2......
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SP2 does not obviate he need for drivers if the controller demands them.
If the OP already had the drive working once, he had the minimum requirements. |
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Larry Roberts
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:29 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:56:11 GMT, Ben Dover <bendme@shakeme.net>
wrote:
| Quote: | no@spam.invalid (nick101181) blabbered in news:qVvrg.1175$B62.618
@fe07.news.easynews.com:
Hello,
what happened was my main harddrive my 250 gig sata that I have
windows xp installed on is not being detected now. I'm trying to
fiddle around with my windows cd and repair console,fixboot.fixmbr.
chkdsk etc etc. to no effect. I've also loaded my sata drivers from a
floppy prior to this. I used to have this ntldr is missing press ctrl
+ alt + del error a lot and somehow I fixed it. I was using my pc and
someone is the house was messing with the breakers and it shut down my
pc in the middle of usage. I noticed ever since i installed that sata
drive that if i crash and don't shut down properly that my pc acts
like the sata drive was never there. anyway the windows recovery
console doesn't even detect my sata drive at all after loading my
drivers from the floppy. I can't afford to just format this drive
because I got it almost full of data that I need. What can I do to
get it going again? thanks
If you haven't installed it yet, get SP2. You should not have to load
SATA drivers with WinXP unless using RAID. A SATA drive as an ordinary
drive does not need extra drivers.
Check Device manager and be sure drive hasn't changed to Virtual. If so
reset it to Basic and reboot - it should come back.
Can we assume the drive shows in BIOS, and that it's set as the primary
boot drive?
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That depends on the mainboard's BIOS I think. My mainboard
supports SATA II, and my WinXP Pro installation without any service
packs detected my SATA HDD without any need for drivers. Some
mainboards require drivers for SATA drives at installation. |
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JAD
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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"John Weiss" <jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet> wrote in
message news:WtCdneXXdYv1iDLZnZ2dnUVZ_oydnZ2d@comcast.com...
| Quote: | "JAD" <kapasitor@earthcharter.net> wrote...
If you haven't installed it yet, get SP2. You should not have to load
SATA drivers with WinXP unless using RAID. A SATA drive as an
ordinary
drive does not need extra drivers.
Not necessarily true.
Some SATA controllers (e.g., Promise 378) require the RAID drivers even
for a
single drive, because a single physical drive is mounted as a "striped
array
with 1 drive."
Keyword SP2......
SP2 does not obviate he need for drivers if the controller demands them.
If the OP already had the drive working once, he had the minimum
requirements.
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cause he loaded the drivers....so far I have yet to have to use any third
party drivers for raid or sata since SP2 |
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Guest
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:01 am Post subject: Re: huge sata problems |
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ntldr cannot be fixed with one exception restore from backup or
mirrored partition copy of your back up partition (depending upon what
you did to backup)
Next time you get everything installed & programs installed & windows
updates all ran, then create a second partition or get another drive
(only need about 8 to 15 GB) and get a partition copying program from
your hard disk manufacture's web site) This will create a mirror that
can be restored if anything happens to your existing partition. This
is also a great way to back up your data and this does not require a
backup program or tools.
Good luck!
nick101181 wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
what happened was my main harddrive my 250 gig sata that I have
windows xp installed on is not being detected now. I'm trying to
fiddle around with my windows cd and repair console,fixboot.fixmbr.
chkdsk etc etc. to no effect. I've also loaded my sata drivers from a
floppy prior to this. I used to have this ntldr is missing press ctrl
+ alt + del error a lot and somehow I fixed it. I was using my pc and
someone is the house was messing with the breakers and it shut down my
pc in the middle of usage. I noticed ever since i installed that sata
drive that if i crash and don't shut down properly that my pc acts
like the sata drive was never there. anyway the windows recovery
console doesn't even detect my sata drive at all after loading my
drivers from the floppy. I can't afford to just format this drive
because I got it almost full of data that I need. What can I do to
get it going again? thanks |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:50 am Post subject: Re: A good Toshiba A105-S2001 review? |
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:34:23 GMT, no@spam.invalid (vladl) wrote:
| Quote: | Hello.. my first post!
I would like to know if someone knows where to read something
IMPARTIAL about this notebook (a magazine revies, users review,..).
In this forum, many people complains about the Toshiba notebooks
(specially its HDD and motherboard) and now I have the possibility to
buy one, but obviously, I dont want to buy a machine with the problems
described above.
Any comment or sugestion will be appreciated!
Thanks.
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Buy something else. |
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DaveW
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: Re: SATA HDD |
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Most likely that is the reason.
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DaveW
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"bryanjoe" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi all,
Just bought a SATA HDD 250 GB with USB /Casing/Power.
My Computer is pretty old , P4 1.5MHZ. Running on WInXP
When i plug in the HDD USB into the computer.
There isnt any response.
Is it becos of unavailable of USB 2.0 in the computer?
:crybaby:
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`AMD tower
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:03 am Post subject: Re: SATA HDD |
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will a sata drive work on a box that
has eide drives in it?
"bryanjoe" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:12fj61ah1u7j7d5@news.supernews.com...
| Quote: | Hi all,
Just bought a SATA HDD 250 GB with USB /Casing/Power.
My Computer is pretty old , P4 1.5MHZ. Running on WInXP
When i plug in the HDD USB into the computer.
There isnt any response.
Is it becos of unavailable of USB 2.0 in the computer?
:crybaby:
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: Re: power supply running hot |
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geeker wrote:
| Quote: | I have a achme powersupply that runs pretty hot in my shuttle sk43.
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"Pretty hot"? That's an overly detailed, omplex scientific description
that laymen like me can't understand, Dr. Science.
| Quote: | i need a step by step way of finding out if my computer's needing more
power from it.
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Step 1: Measure the voltages with a digital voltage meter. Set meter
to measure DC volts, have its leads connected to ground (COMmon)
and volts, then connect their tips to black & red to measure +5V,
black & yellow for +12V, black & orange for +3.3V.
Step 2: If any of those voltages is more than 5% lower than their
official values, then the power supply may be insufficient for the job,
but if you haven't made any hardware changes to the computer,
then suspect either a fan that's slowed (dirt, gummed up lube)
or capacitors that have dried out (high ESR). |
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Rod Speed
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: Re: SATA HDD |
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`AMD tower <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote:
| Quote: | will a sata drive work on a box that
has eide drives in it?
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Yep.
| Quote: | "bryanjoe" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:12fj61ah1u7j7d5@news.supernews.com...
Hi all,
Just bought a SATA HDD 250 GB with USB /Casing/Power.
My Computer is pretty old , P4 1.5MHZ. Running on WInXP
When i plug in the HDD USB into the computer.
There isnt any response.
Is it becos of unavailable of USB 2.0 in the computer?
crybaby: |
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