A8V BIOS Setup

[Boonesmi]

oops i didnt see your last post till after i posted mine

so looks like the msi drive is the problem why would msi make a drive that has so little support??

 

[Slik]

yeah, I contacted ASUS earlier today, no reply yet.
This sucks :/
Gonna go ahead and setup everything with my old pata optical drive, I'll wait till monday to RMA the optical drive, maybe by then i'll get some answers from ASUS.
I'm exhausted lol, Should i just keep the promise drive off and run the hard drive off SATA 1 and the CDROM off of regular IDE? I think that should work fine ; ;

Also heard someone mention in another post that I need to raise my memory voltage?

Thanks for all your help so far guys, gah what a mission -_-

 

[Boonesmi]

yeah personally i would just leave the promise controller off unless/until its needed... it will not be faster then the via based sata and pata ports.

i mean if you had multiple harddrives it would sure come in handy
but with just one hdd and one optical drive you might as well just leave it off

 

[imported_DangerMouse]

Hmm i had impression optical drive is cheaper than mobo. So why replace mobo and not
optical drive?

 

[Slik]

Thats what i'm doing, since currently no AMD mobo supports this optical drive

 

[Slik]

Got everything setup today, everything is working GREAT!
This computer is really fast! I can't wait to play EQ2, should be here monday

 

[Boonesmi]

Originally posted by: Slik
Got everything setup today, everything is working GREAT!
This computer is really fast! I can't wait to play EQ2, should be here monday

did you get the msi sata drive working too?? if so, how?

 

[Slik]

I wish :/
I ended up using an old CDRW from my old computer, ; ;
I only have one problem right now and its that the hard drive is only detected as 70GB, I think i'm gonna have to switch it to the promise SATA ports ;[

 

[Boonesmi]

thats normal, windows always recgonizes drives a good bit smaller then the manufactadvertised size. (ie, my 160gb seagate shows as 153gb in windows)

its cause the hdd manufacturer uses a diff method of calculating size then windows

 

[Slik]

ah :/