- Dec 10, 2004
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Last night was probably one of the most fustrating PC builds ever. I began to build my new Athlon 64 setup wtih the following parts
AMD Winchester 3200+
Asus A8V Version 2 1008 BIOS
Corsair 1 gig XMS 3700 3-4-4-8 standard timings
eVGA 6800GT
Audigy 2
2x SeaGate 160gig SATA drives
Antec NeoPower
After the usuall ripping out old equipment and setting up the new stuff I booted the machine. All seemed good. I changed some stuff in the BIOS turning off uneccassary junk. Rebooted and threw in the XP Pro SP1 disc.
First problem I ran into is that I apparantly didn't have the correct VIA drivers on my floppy. So I took the ASUS CDROM and ran the Makedisk utility and tried again. This time it took and started the Win XP install.
Ok, after full format and intially loading, reboot and off I went into the XP installing screen. All of a sudden, reboot. Mkay....trying again.
Back into loading screen and then a blue screen. WTF. Try again and blue screen repeteadly. Take out old SATA cables and install new ones and wipe drive and try again. Crashes during installing of intial files. WTF????
Rewipe drive and try AGAIN. NOw it gets through the intial Windows installing and I get to my CD Code typing and then starts loading the drivers. And then outa NOWWHERE the machine starts bitching about drivers not being Windows certified? WTF???? I have NEVER seen XP do this during intial install.
Pissed off, I ripped out the corsair ram and threw in a single stick of Corsair value RAM 256 meg. Rewiped drives and tried again. This time the install went without a hitch and I finally had windows. I started doing Windows updates and all my drivers. I popped out the Corsair Value RAM and put the corsair XMS back in and increased the VDIMM to 2.8v.
Machine booted and I continued loading stuff until during a reboot, spontanous crash. ARRRRRRGHHH!!! Reboot again and went into windows. Started Audigy 2 install but 95% through the install it crashed saying " Catostrophic error blah blah blah" Rebooted and the sound worked. Then during Windows updates, farking BSOD!!!!!!!
Furious and nearly out of energy, I ripped out the SATA drivers and threw in my orginal Western Digital IDE drives and started all over. This time not a single hiccup during windows install and I ran out of energy to start doing drivers and what not again.
So what the hell am I dealing with here? Is VIA's SATA controllers this shitty, or have I done something wrong during install? My Corsair RAM ran perfectly fine in my Intel setup so unless this mobo is being REALLY bitch about the RAM, im having a hunch its VIA's controller. ANyone have ANY suggestions on what else to check or change in the BIOS or something I missed to figure out why the hell this thing is throwing such a temper tantrum? Thanks for any incite.
AMD Winchester 3200+
Asus A8V Version 2 1008 BIOS
Corsair 1 gig XMS 3700 3-4-4-8 standard timings
eVGA 6800GT
Audigy 2
2x SeaGate 160gig SATA drives
Antec NeoPower
After the usuall ripping out old equipment and setting up the new stuff I booted the machine. All seemed good. I changed some stuff in the BIOS turning off uneccassary junk. Rebooted and threw in the XP Pro SP1 disc.
First problem I ran into is that I apparantly didn't have the correct VIA drivers on my floppy. So I took the ASUS CDROM and ran the Makedisk utility and tried again. This time it took and started the Win XP install.
Ok, after full format and intially loading, reboot and off I went into the XP installing screen. All of a sudden, reboot. Mkay....trying again.
Back into loading screen and then a blue screen. WTF. Try again and blue screen repeteadly. Take out old SATA cables and install new ones and wipe drive and try again. Crashes during installing of intial files. WTF????
Rewipe drive and try AGAIN. NOw it gets through the intial Windows installing and I get to my CD Code typing and then starts loading the drivers. And then outa NOWWHERE the machine starts bitching about drivers not being Windows certified? WTF???? I have NEVER seen XP do this during intial install.
Pissed off, I ripped out the corsair ram and threw in a single stick of Corsair value RAM 256 meg. Rewiped drives and tried again. This time the install went without a hitch and I finally had windows. I started doing Windows updates and all my drivers. I popped out the Corsair Value RAM and put the corsair XMS back in and increased the VDIMM to 2.8v.
Machine booted and I continued loading stuff until during a reboot, spontanous crash. ARRRRRRGHHH!!! Reboot again and went into windows. Started Audigy 2 install but 95% through the install it crashed saying " Catostrophic error blah blah blah" Rebooted and the sound worked. Then during Windows updates, farking BSOD!!!!!!!
Furious and nearly out of energy, I ripped out the SATA drivers and threw in my orginal Western Digital IDE drives and started all over. This time not a single hiccup during windows install and I ran out of energy to start doing drivers and what not again.
So what the hell am I dealing with here? Is VIA's SATA controllers this shitty, or have I done something wrong during install? My Corsair RAM ran perfectly fine in my Intel setup so unless this mobo is being REALLY bitch about the RAM, im having a hunch its VIA's controller. ANyone have ANY suggestions on what else to check or change in the BIOS or something I missed to figure out why the hell this thing is throwing such a temper tantrum? Thanks for any incite.