I built a new computer about 2 months ago now, and have recently run into some trouble concerning my hard drives. This is the first time it has happened, and I have not had trouble like this before.
My system specs are:
Windows XP Pro w/ SP1
Coolermaster Wavemaster Alum. Case
Antec SmartPower 550W Power Supply
AMD 3500+ (Venice core)
1 GB Corsair PC3200 LL RAM
Thermalright XP-120
BFG NVIDIA 6800GT OC AGP
CL Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Retail
Promise 100TX2 Ultra PCI IDE Controller
Western Digital 80GB SATA
2xWD 160GB IDE HD
Pioneer 109 DVD-/+RW
At the beginning of the week I was screwing around with beta forceware drivers for the nforce chipset, and something screwed up when I tried to uninstall them and I had to format and reinstall Windows. I tried 64-bit for about 30 minutes, didn't like that sh*t, and went back to 32. Everything installed like butter and was working fine. My SATA HD seems to have no troubles. Then, I tried to uncompress (unRAR) a file from my D: to me E:, this is basically from one 160gb drive to the other. Both are run as master from the Promise PCE IDE controller, I have been using that for about a year on different machines, with no trouble thus far.
During the uncompressing. I got a Windows error saying something to the effect of "Unable to further continue the delayed write to E:\directory\filename. The data has been lost. This could be do to network or hardware problems." Everything slowed down, I couldn't close programs, etc. I rebooted, and my first instinct was to run scandisk on the affected drive. No go, Windows would freeze. So I reboot again, and BOOM! My BIOS doesn't even POST!!!!
I can get my computer to boot, but I had to entirely remove both IDE hard drives, as well as the Promise card. I cannot get it to reboot while any of those 3 items are plugged on. I plugged the IDE card in by itself, I plugged the hard drives in with different cables, to the motherboard and to the Promise card. Whenever they are plugged in, my motherboard will not POST, and I get no display on my monitor whatsoever. I tried resetting the jumper to clear my BIOS, i removed and replaced the CMOS battery. I have not yet tried the HDs or IDE card in a different computer. This just seems so weird to me, plugging in a HD to a motherboard should not cause it to be unable to boot should it? It would seem to me that the problem is in my motherboard. I've always hated MSI though, so maybe it's just me.
My BIOS is uptodate with the latest 1.8 version. I can get into Windows obviously with my SATA drive connected, thank God. I don't know what else to try though. This is really a nightmare that has me baffled. Any insight would be welcome. I guess if all else fails I could buy an nforce 4 board and a new video card. Heh, anyone wanna buy a 6800gt AGP, just in case? Thanks all.
My system specs are:
Windows XP Pro w/ SP1
Coolermaster Wavemaster Alum. Case
Antec SmartPower 550W Power Supply
AMD 3500+ (Venice core)
1 GB Corsair PC3200 LL RAM
Thermalright XP-120
BFG NVIDIA 6800GT OC AGP
CL Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Retail
Promise 100TX2 Ultra PCI IDE Controller
Western Digital 80GB SATA
2xWD 160GB IDE HD
Pioneer 109 DVD-/+RW
At the beginning of the week I was screwing around with beta forceware drivers for the nforce chipset, and something screwed up when I tried to uninstall them and I had to format and reinstall Windows. I tried 64-bit for about 30 minutes, didn't like that sh*t, and went back to 32. Everything installed like butter and was working fine. My SATA HD seems to have no troubles. Then, I tried to uncompress (unRAR) a file from my D: to me E:, this is basically from one 160gb drive to the other. Both are run as master from the Promise PCE IDE controller, I have been using that for about a year on different machines, with no trouble thus far.
During the uncompressing. I got a Windows error saying something to the effect of "Unable to further continue the delayed write to E:\directory\filename. The data has been lost. This could be do to network or hardware problems." Everything slowed down, I couldn't close programs, etc. I rebooted, and my first instinct was to run scandisk on the affected drive. No go, Windows would freeze. So I reboot again, and BOOM! My BIOS doesn't even POST!!!!
I can get my computer to boot, but I had to entirely remove both IDE hard drives, as well as the Promise card. I cannot get it to reboot while any of those 3 items are plugged on. I plugged the IDE card in by itself, I plugged the hard drives in with different cables, to the motherboard and to the Promise card. Whenever they are plugged in, my motherboard will not POST, and I get no display on my monitor whatsoever. I tried resetting the jumper to clear my BIOS, i removed and replaced the CMOS battery. I have not yet tried the HDs or IDE card in a different computer. This just seems so weird to me, plugging in a HD to a motherboard should not cause it to be unable to boot should it? It would seem to me that the problem is in my motherboard. I've always hated MSI though, so maybe it's just me.
My BIOS is uptodate with the latest 1.8 version. I can get into Windows obviously with my SATA drive connected, thank God. I don't know what else to try though. This is really a nightmare that has me baffled. Any insight would be welcome. I guess if all else fails I could buy an nforce 4 board and a new video card. Heh, anyone wanna buy a 6800gt AGP, just in case? Thanks all.