Recent content by Therma lobsterdore

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    Cannot boot from new hard drive

    Ok I solved the problem, what I had to do is put the drive into it's own raid array and now it works fine. I'd imagine that I had to do this because my original raid array was set to be bootable, and even though my raid controller was disabled it might have been confusing things somewhat, well...
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    Cannot boot from new hard drive

    Ok well in that case I'm back to square one as I have been using the drive in non-raid mode, ah heck! I'm pretty much out of ideas on this then, anybody else got any ideas as to what else I can try? I might just return the drive if I can't fix the problem soon.
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    Cannot boot from new hard drive

    I've tried formatting and partitioning the drive using windows xp itself and during the installation of xp, I've also tried some of the dos based utilities from the ultimate boot cd, and this includes Seagate's own hard drive utilities. Yes I did indeed disable raid and set the right boot order...
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    Cannot boot from new hard drive

    Yes I have two 250gb sata drives in a raid array, these work fine and I can boot from them without problem. There is no option to turn off AHCI in my bios and the new drive is recognised by the bios and by windows without a problem, it's literally when I try to boot from the drive that...
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    Cannot boot from new hard drive

    I recently purchased a 500gb Seagate barracuda hard drive (http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3W4M), I can format the drive and use it as normal, but as soon as I try to boot from the drive it fails, I get a bunch of weird characters on the screen when I try to boot from it and if I...
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    Cpu options

    It's an Athlon 64 3200+, so yeah, badly in need of an upgrade! Cheers happy medium, I'll check out the fx-60
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    Cpu options

    I've got an Asus A8N-SLI (old I know!), it's a socket 939 board (details here A8N-SLI). My comp's getting a bit slow so I thought I might just upgrade the cpu on the cheap, as oppsoed to going the whole way and getting a new board and all that crap. Now I've been out of the loop for ages so I...