Recent content by rickrh72

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    Up and running

    Hi We finaly got Vista to load although it took some work. We had to load vista on another machine, on a separate HD and then mirror that drive onto the WD500ys. Then do a Vista repair on that install. It works but is a little flakey. There are isues with the Nvidia video drivers and control...
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    Vista can see HD

    If you are familar with the gigabyte Ga-965-DQ6 mobo, it has 6 SATA ports controled by ICH8R and 2 controled by Gigabyte SATA2. If I plug in the HD in the group of 6 it shows up in the post by its self. If I plug in the 2 optical drives in the same set they show up with the HD. If I plug the...
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    Vista can see HD

    I cleared the C Mos and set the sata to the IDE mode. set every thing elts to defalt. Every thing loads up until Vista asks where I want to install windows, and then it says NO DRIVERS WERE FOUND. Click driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation. Then every thing stops. The HD...
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    Vista can see HD

    Hi I can't get Vista to see my Western Digital Caviar SE 16 500 Gb hard drive. I have set my boot device priority from floppy to CD 1 to CD 2, and tried them in all orders. I put the Vista disk in 1 the MOBO disk in 2 and the Hd drivers in floopy with the same thing happening. Window can't...
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    Hi

    The MOBo shows the drive in the post and I can find it in the BIOS. Wehen I try to format the drive window won't let me. the light for HD activity flashes like it is working. Thanks Have fun, Rick
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    Hi

    It is a western digital Caviar se16 500 gb SATA. Thanks for the info Have fun, Rick
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    Hi

    Hi I tried to load the drivers from Gugabyte and had no sucess. I went into the bios and set the first boot device to cdrom, then put the vista disk in the drive and hit f10 to save and exit. When the window pops up and asks where do you want to install windows. It says no drivers can be found...
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    Can,t figure out how to formate HD

    Hi ME and my son built this computer, and we fired it up for the first time tonight. But I have a problem formating the HD. Every thing seams to be working so I went into the bios and set my first boot device to CD DVD rom. I put the Win. vista disk in the drive and didn't get a comand promt...
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    Deleting

    How do I delete a topic I started when I am done with the topic?
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    Hooking up sata cables

    Hi Well we are finaly on the build, but am wondering about the optical drive and hard drive SATA cables. In the mobo manual it showes SATAII0 /1/2/3/4/5 (SATA 3Gb/s Connector, Controled by ICH8R). Right now I have the optical drives pluged in here. The other is GSATAII0 / GSATAII1 (SATA 3Gb/s...
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    Hooking up sata cables

    AAARG how did this get in the video section? r
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    Hooking up sata cables

    Well, we are finaly on the build. In the mo bo manual it shows where to hook the sata cables up. We are running 2 optical drives and 1 hard drive. I have SATAllo /1/2/3/4/5 (SATA 3Gb/s Connector, Controled by ICH8R) and GSATAll0 / GSATAll1 (SATA 3Gb/s Connector, Controlled by Gigabyte STATA2). I...
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    1 video card or 2

    Right now we are leaning towards a qx6700. For the little extra money we get a quade core. Also will I have any problems using this proc with a Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 mobo. It says that it is quade core optimized. I hope I don't have to flash the bios and load a diferent one. Thinking about it is...
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    1 video card or 2

    Money is not an issue. We have talked it over and he dosn't seem to mind how much he spends. The Quade core may be interesting. I will have to do some checking on this.
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    1 video card or 2

    Hi I am building this for my son. So far I have a Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 Mobo. We just ordered a Western Digital Caviar 500 GB hard drive, Corsair XM2 2GB 800 DDR2 PC 2 6400 Ram and a Zalman CNPS9500 CPU fan. We are looking at an Intel Core 2 Extream X 6800 2.93 prosseser. The vid card may be...