RE: freeze
From: TJ (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/26/04
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:43:56 -0700
thank you Peter,
HOw would I know that I'm using a 40pin 80 conductor
shielded IDE cable?
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>First, use the larger drive to be the master drive and
the small drive as slave. (In fact, 6.4 Gig is not good
enough to run XP) Make sure you set the jumpers correctly.
>Make sure to use a 40 Pin 80 conductor shielded IDE cable
otherwise you can not use the UDMA mode and thus reduce
the speed of the Hdds dramatically. Also, if you use the
40 Pin 80 conductor shielded cable, you can set both the
Hdds to cable select.
>Boot into BIOS and load default setup. Set the correct
date and time and disable the Virus protection in BIOS.
>Set the Boot sequence that the CD-rom is the first boot
device, enable the UDMA mode for the primary and secondary
IDE channels ,then save and exit BIOS setup.
>Boot from the XP CD, select to delete all the paritions
in the master drive and then clean install XP Pro again.
>After XP Pro installed successfully, install all the
chipset drivers and mini port AGP drivers on the CD that
came with the mobo. Enable the XP Firewall feature and
install antiVirus softwares then go on-line to update all
the critical patches and SP1(if not included in the XP Pro
CD)
>
>BTW, 128MB of ram is the mininum requirement for XP, I
would suggest to use at least 256MB of ram.
>Also, if you cannot get the XP drivers for the vedio
card, you better buy a new one that is XP compatible.
>I would also suggest you to buy a 60 Gig WD Hdd with 8 MB
Cache (it is cheap today, less than $90) and use the 6.4
Gig as slave.
>It will help your friend to have a solid and stable XP
system.
>
>Hope it helps.
>
>Peter
>
>
> ----- TJ wrote: -----
>
> After replacing a motherboard, my friend's PC
freezes up
> after it's start. I formatted it's HDD and installed
WinXP
> Pro from scratch. When I tried to install the OS I
run
> into a stop error: unmountable_boot_volume. I found
the
> solution under Q297185. The problem was: the BIOS
settings
> were configured to force the faster UDMA modes. And
I had
> to disable UDMA mode for the HDD and the
installation went
> thru. After the installation I can log into the
windows,
> but what ever I try to do it freezes on me, no
pattern,
> when I go to start/programs or open control panel or
close
> start up programs at the system tray... I even
cannot
> check the event log to see what is causing the
problem,
> halfway to that it freezes. Here're some system info
that
> might helpfull to you.
>
> Motherboard: DFI CA64-TC
> CPU: Intel Celeron 700Mhz
> HDD: Samsung 4.3GB / Western Digital 6.4GB
> CYL 13328, 15 heads, 63spt ( I installed XP Pro
on
> both of them, the same result)
> RAM: 2x 64MB SDRAM PentiumII PC-100
> Video: VGA Cirrus Logic (it's an old video card, we
have 2
> of them, the same result)
>
> Please help me to help my friend...
>
>
>
>
>
>.
>
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