OK....this one has me stumped.
I recently installed the following components:
Asus a7n8x-e deluxe m/b
Athlon XP-M 2500+
1 gb Samsung memory
Maxtor 160gb, Seagate 200gb hard drives
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Plextor PX-716A, TDK CDRW401240B optical drives
Here's my problem. Originally I had the Maxtor 160gb setup as my boot drive (master), and the Seagate is the slave drive. I installed a fresh copy of XP Pro on the Maxtor. After that was installed, I proceeded to install all the drivers (nforce, ati, etc.) Everything seemed to be working OK for about 10-15 minutes after startup. Then the system would lock-up entirely (can't even move the mouse, no ctrl-alt-del either). After doing a hard reset, got back into Windows, and after a few minutes the same thing would happen. I noticed that every time this would happen the hard drive access light on the case would be on when the computer locked up. After a few more resets, the computer would POST and then proceed to load Windows and lockup before Windows even started loading. I decided to install XP on the Seagate, make it the boot drive and the Maxtor slave. Windows installed no problem on the Seagate, got into Windows, and bam same problem. Then I tried to just run one HD at a time, both on the Maxtor 160gb and the Seagate, each with a fresh install of Windows. Running just the one drive at a time everything worked fine. I also tried hooking up an old Maxtor 60gb drive as slave with both the Maxtor 160gb and the Seagate as master and the same problems would happen. So I seem to have narrowed it down to the fact that when I run two IDE hard drives, the system locks up consistently. Keep in mind I've tried different IDE cables, both IDE channels on the motherboard, to no avail. Has anyone experienced a problem like this before????? I really need to solve this as running with just one HD sucks...
I recently installed the following components:
Asus a7n8x-e deluxe m/b
Athlon XP-M 2500+
1 gb Samsung memory
Maxtor 160gb, Seagate 200gb hard drives
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Plextor PX-716A, TDK CDRW401240B optical drives
Here's my problem. Originally I had the Maxtor 160gb setup as my boot drive (master), and the Seagate is the slave drive. I installed a fresh copy of XP Pro on the Maxtor. After that was installed, I proceeded to install all the drivers (nforce, ati, etc.) Everything seemed to be working OK for about 10-15 minutes after startup. Then the system would lock-up entirely (can't even move the mouse, no ctrl-alt-del either). After doing a hard reset, got back into Windows, and after a few minutes the same thing would happen. I noticed that every time this would happen the hard drive access light on the case would be on when the computer locked up. After a few more resets, the computer would POST and then proceed to load Windows and lockup before Windows even started loading. I decided to install XP on the Seagate, make it the boot drive and the Maxtor slave. Windows installed no problem on the Seagate, got into Windows, and bam same problem. Then I tried to just run one HD at a time, both on the Maxtor 160gb and the Seagate, each with a fresh install of Windows. Running just the one drive at a time everything worked fine. I also tried hooking up an old Maxtor 60gb drive as slave with both the Maxtor 160gb and the Seagate as master and the same problems would happen. So I seem to have narrowed it down to the fact that when I run two IDE hard drives, the system locks up consistently. Keep in mind I've tried different IDE cables, both IDE channels on the motherboard, to no avail. Has anyone experienced a problem like this before????? I really need to solve this as running with just one HD sucks...