Re: Total Confusion--Please help!
From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 02/24/04
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:05:59 -0600
Is your hard drive IDE or ATA?
Why are you using cable select? Cable select is for
factories that install lots of hard drives, the drive on the
end is seen as master and the drive in the middle is seen as
slave. Which connector is your drive plugged into?
Did you get a mobo CD with drivers with the mobo? Do you
have the mobo manual?
"Lori A. Kuiper" <loriak25@netnitco.net> wrote in message
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| I have a new system that I put together as follows:
Motherboard is NF7-S
| V2.0; Processor is Althalon 1.8 2500+; Video card is
Diamond Stealth S80
| Radeon 9200SE 128mb DDR DVI/TV-Out AGP 8X; Hard Drive is
Western Digital
| 120GB; DVD R,RW drive is I/O Magic Dual 4XMax.
|
| I have hard drive connected to Primary Controller set as
Cable Select, DVD
| is on Secondary set as Master. Also have floppy drive
installed.
|
| When I loaded XP Professional, and went to load the
chipset drivers from the
| CD, it asked if I wanted to install the ATA Serial GUI
(takes place of PCI
| Controller) and I said yes. It then recognized my hard
drive as a SCSI
| device and my system ran really slow. My DVD driver
however, ran fine. I
| then disabled the onboard ATA Serial Controller and Boot
Rom in the Bios per
| someones advice. Installed a floppy drive, and Reloaded
XP and downloaded
| the newest Nforce drivers from NVIDIA website. When asked
if I wanted to
| enable ATA Serial GUI I answered no this time. Then
loaded ATI
| videovdrivers from disk. My system is running faster and
video seems to be
| working correctly now, but my DVD won't write to a blank
DVD anymore. Also,
| the speed shown in system properties for the DVD drive is
only 1/2 of what
| it was previously for the DVD Drive when I had the Serial
ATA drivers
| loaded.
|
| Does this system require the ATA serial drivers loaded to
recognize my hard
| drive and DVD Rom at Ultra ATA100 speed even though I do
not have either
| connected to the ATA Serial controller? Should I
re-enable the ATA
| Controller and just not select the Boot Rom portion and
then reload the
| motherboard drivers with the ATA Serial GUI? I thought
that the ATA Serial
| interface was only to enable RAID 0 and RAID 1? Since I
only have the one
| hard drive and DVD Drive, I did not think the serial ATA
drivers were even
| applicable although they are loaded if I switch the BIOS
settings to
| defaults. It says in the motherboard manual that I should
disable the
| onboard floppy controller if I install a high speed
controller--does this
| mean that I need to disable the floppy if I install the
ATA Serial drivers?
|
| Also, I cannot access the DVD drive before XP loads with
my USB keyboard--is
| this normal? The keyboard is older, but it is suppose to
run on USB.
|
| The next time I reload XP, should I shut down the system
and boot directly
| from the DVD drive? I just put the CD in and then
restarted the system the
| last time. I may have had a problem when I originally
loaded XP since the
| BIOS needed to be updated to properly recognize my Western
Digital
| drive--which I have done now. Also, I only formatted one
partition when I
| loaded XP--should I format all of them and then just
select which I want to
| put XP on? Now when I put a blank DVD in the drive and
select properties,
| it shows the file system as RAW?
|
| Could the fact that I left the hard drive set to Cable
Select (the way it
| was set from the manufacturer) and had the DVD drive set
to Master cause
| problems--even though they were on separate cables?
|
| In summary, what drivers do I need to load, what should my
boot sequence be
| when reloading XP, and do I need to shut down the PC
before loading and boot
| directly to DVD drive? I will need to plug my keyboard
into PS2 in order to
| do this. Can I change it back to PS2 later, or is it
better to run it as
| PS2 since it seems to work OK that way. I currently have
mouse on USB and
| that seems to be fine.
|
|
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