Abit NF7-S

[bluestrobe]

Went from a 40GB WD IDE drive to a Seagate 120GB SATA drive. I formated and partitioned the drive for OS and data. Well, got Windows XP loaded and then the USB optical mouse would shut off right when the log in screen came up. PS/2 mouse works great but the USB mouse which works great outside of windows now shuts off before I can use it. I had few other problems with XP and decided to format and reinstall.

Now I can make it through the intitial setup but when I get to the format screen, it hangs at 0% and the HD LED stays on constantly until I reboot. (it did hit 1% as I typed this, its formating very slowwwwww then) Tried deleting and reinstalling the partitions (via XP CD) and even tried the same with a Win2000 CD with the same exact results. Downloaded the seagate tools for a floppy and can't get them to boot.

I might stick my 40GB drive back in the computer to get it past the worthless stage. Any ideas what is causing this?

 

[bluestrobe]

RMA back to Newegg. Out of the last four orders from them I've had to RMA 3 items. They aren't looking popular in my book.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

You did hit F6 to install the drivers, correct?

 

[bluestrobe]

Sorry, forgot to mention that. Yup.

Installed windows once, it ran wierd. USB mouse would shut off right after the windows splash screen. After about the 4th reboot it would run slower and slower. Went to reinstall windows and never got that far again. One time it told me the directories were corrupt. Progessivly I would get less and less into setup before starting over. Finally it wouldn't even format the drive in setup and told me the drive was unreadable. I zeroed the drive out which took 6 hours and then went back to the setup and had the same error. Seagate HD tools are wierd and when I got them figured out, it failed quick test and reported 1000+ bad sectors before I stopped it. I RMA'd it and stuck my old drive back in.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Just an FYI. I had trouble formatting and installing a SATA drive on that board as well. I had to use my IDE as primary and my SATA as my secondary drive.

 

[bluestrobe]

Thats not the plan as the 40GB drive I had on here is 6 years old and is slow loading today's games. If I have problems with the next HD i'll just buy a SATA card.