Skypix7
Senior member
Greetings fellow tech weenies, I'm having some confusions with my new board and would appreciate any help you can give:
Replaced Asus a7v-133 with the P4Pe base on recommendations here. A couple times, in extreme cold (35 degrees, until the studio heated up) the P4PE failed CPU boot and went into BIOS with a Safe mode message. I repowered up and boot was normal. Then these wierd things happened ( I just installed this mobo, with 2 Samsung true 2700 512MB memory sticks in DIMM 1 and 2, manual says I can't use the third one I have so I'll have to sell it I guess):
1. I had my slave drive, a Maxtor 40 Gig (C: with D: partition is a Maxtor 60 gigger), give me a SMART warning "Immediately backup up your data and replace your hard disk. A failure may be imminent." This was the same error message I'd gotten with another identical Maxtor 40GB HDD that I'd had replaced by Maxtor. They sent a replacement that is also defective, so now I have to RMA two drives. :disgust::Q😛
2. When I tried to install the replacement HDD, which whined like a banshee out of hell, the floppy drive seemed to fail. I fiddled with the connectors, now it's running again, though no drive light. 😕
3. Now my new Toshiba DVD-ROM seems dead as a doornail; no power light, no tray open, Win2K Pro system is looking for it but says drive is not up. It was working fine before the hard drive problems. Could they be connected, both the floppy and CD failures, or just coincidence?
Appreciate any ideas.
Also, can I install the second and third drives (when they come from Maxtor) on the blue connector on the P4PE, without setting it up as a raid array? Or do I have to settle for a slave on my primary connector (since my CD and DVD are on the secondary IDE)?
thanks for your help 🙂
Replaced Asus a7v-133 with the P4Pe base on recommendations here. A couple times, in extreme cold (35 degrees, until the studio heated up) the P4PE failed CPU boot and went into BIOS with a Safe mode message. I repowered up and boot was normal. Then these wierd things happened ( I just installed this mobo, with 2 Samsung true 2700 512MB memory sticks in DIMM 1 and 2, manual says I can't use the third one I have so I'll have to sell it I guess):
1. I had my slave drive, a Maxtor 40 Gig (C: with D: partition is a Maxtor 60 gigger), give me a SMART warning "Immediately backup up your data and replace your hard disk. A failure may be imminent." This was the same error message I'd gotten with another identical Maxtor 40GB HDD that I'd had replaced by Maxtor. They sent a replacement that is also defective, so now I have to RMA two drives. :disgust::Q😛
2. When I tried to install the replacement HDD, which whined like a banshee out of hell, the floppy drive seemed to fail. I fiddled with the connectors, now it's running again, though no drive light. 😕
3. Now my new Toshiba DVD-ROM seems dead as a doornail; no power light, no tray open, Win2K Pro system is looking for it but says drive is not up. It was working fine before the hard drive problems. Could they be connected, both the floppy and CD failures, or just coincidence?
Appreciate any ideas.
Also, can I install the second and third drives (when they come from Maxtor) on the blue connector on the P4PE, without setting it up as a raid array? Or do I have to settle for a slave on my primary connector (since my CD and DVD are on the secondary IDE)?
thanks for your help 🙂
