Hi everyone. I am new to this forum and would like to say HIYA to all and Happy New Year
Ok down to problem...
I recently threw together a second gaming computer to play Everquest. I bought a new AMD Athlon 64 3000+ cpu, Giga-Byte K8U-939 MB, 1GB of DDR400 Ram, and a 500w PS. I used a couple of old 40GB IDE drives, a Geforce 4 Ti4600, and a SB live SC. After putting it all together and installing Windows XP, it ran and performed very well. Recently (2 weeks ago) I began receiving boot errors that stated BOOT DISK FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE. I tried many different things to get the system fixed and boot up. Seemed that only shutting down and restarting would get it to boot up and run. After a few days, instead of getting this error on restarts and cold boots, the system would crash and restart on its own only to give me the same error.
So I removed the 2 IDE drives and purchased a new Maxtor Diamond Max Ultra 100GB SATA/150 HDD. Ok here is where I really begin to bite my nails and pull my hair, and really as a single mommy of twin daughters, this is so unecessary =P. I installed the drive and powered up. I used the Maxtor Maxblast 4 CD to prepare the drive for WIN XP. I then attempt to load XP only to find that I need a 3.5 floppy with SATA controller drivers on it. So I go and make the floppy and use the XP setup utility to install the 3rd party drivers. So it all works now right? NOT ! Windows says its formatting the drive only to get to 100% and then tells me that Setup was unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged.
I have returned and replaced the drive only to have the exact sitituation repeat itself. I have rebooted this machine now so many times its ridiculous. I see the Maxtor Drive pop up during the boot up screens and also in the BIOS but for some reason XP just wont partner up with my new drive =( Maybe Im using the wrong SATA drivers or something?? Im at wits end and was hoping someone here might have a bit 'o' help on this. Heres my specs
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
GA-K8U-939 MB
ULI 1689 Chipset
Maxtor DiamondMax SATA Ultra Series 100GB Serial ATA/150 HD
1G Dual Channel Corsair DDR400 Ram
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4600 Vid
Soudblaster Live SC
Antec Smartpower 2.0 500w PS
Pextor CD and DVD writers
Any help or tips to get me back into my Everquest fix would be so greatly appreciated.
Thanks ya'll
Regina
Ok down to problem...
I recently threw together a second gaming computer to play Everquest. I bought a new AMD Athlon 64 3000+ cpu, Giga-Byte K8U-939 MB, 1GB of DDR400 Ram, and a 500w PS. I used a couple of old 40GB IDE drives, a Geforce 4 Ti4600, and a SB live SC. After putting it all together and installing Windows XP, it ran and performed very well. Recently (2 weeks ago) I began receiving boot errors that stated BOOT DISK FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE. I tried many different things to get the system fixed and boot up. Seemed that only shutting down and restarting would get it to boot up and run. After a few days, instead of getting this error on restarts and cold boots, the system would crash and restart on its own only to give me the same error.
So I removed the 2 IDE drives and purchased a new Maxtor Diamond Max Ultra 100GB SATA/150 HDD. Ok here is where I really begin to bite my nails and pull my hair, and really as a single mommy of twin daughters, this is so unecessary =P. I installed the drive and powered up. I used the Maxtor Maxblast 4 CD to prepare the drive for WIN XP. I then attempt to load XP only to find that I need a 3.5 floppy with SATA controller drivers on it. So I go and make the floppy and use the XP setup utility to install the 3rd party drivers. So it all works now right? NOT ! Windows says its formatting the drive only to get to 100% and then tells me that Setup was unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged.
I have returned and replaced the drive only to have the exact sitituation repeat itself. I have rebooted this machine now so many times its ridiculous. I see the Maxtor Drive pop up during the boot up screens and also in the BIOS but for some reason XP just wont partner up with my new drive =( Maybe Im using the wrong SATA drivers or something?? Im at wits end and was hoping someone here might have a bit 'o' help on this. Heres my specs
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
GA-K8U-939 MB
ULI 1689 Chipset
Maxtor DiamondMax SATA Ultra Series 100GB Serial ATA/150 HD
1G Dual Channel Corsair DDR400 Ram
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4600 Vid
Soudblaster Live SC
Antec Smartpower 2.0 500w PS
Pextor CD and DVD writers
Any help or tips to get me back into my Everquest fix would be so greatly appreciated.
Thanks ya'll
Regina