The Fedex Pope
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Well thats it, it killed my HD, or either my HD committed suicide. Thought I had things figured out. I formatted the remaining space on my HD in Computer Management via Logical Disk Manager. Left to take a break, a few hours later came back and LDM said it was unable to format cleanly or something to that effect. Then it would lock up (LDM that is). It would freeze up when I opened My Computer. When I tried to restart LDM it only showed one partition. It cooked my OS partition. Rebooted and that was it, couldnt boot at all.
XP Setup couldnt get past the "Windows Setup is loading" after it finishes loading all the drivers. Using some HD diagnostic tools with Ultimate Boot CD it couldnt even find the drive.
So either the HD is dead (which would be a surprise seeing as it was working fine 4 days ago after 3 years or so of flawless use) or this mobo flippin sucks. So I'm back on my trusty old rig, an 8 year old P3800 with 512mb that has no trouble with anything. I DROPPED this computer once from the stairs and it still works great.
Either way, tomorrow I'm going to buy a SATA drive from BB just to see if that fixes anything. If not, I can always return it and RMA this goddamn mobo back to hell.
XP Setup couldnt get past the "Windows Setup is loading" after it finishes loading all the drivers. Using some HD diagnostic tools with Ultimate Boot CD it couldnt even find the drive.
So either the HD is dead (which would be a surprise seeing as it was working fine 4 days ago after 3 years or so of flawless use) or this mobo flippin sucks. So I'm back on my trusty old rig, an 8 year old P3800 with 512mb that has no trouble with anything. I DROPPED this computer once from the stairs and it still works great.
Either way, tomorrow I'm going to buy a SATA drive from BB just to see if that fixes anything. If not, I can always return it and RMA this goddamn mobo back to hell.