- Aug 20, 2004
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Ok, so here's the deal. I just ordered a bunch of parts and 2 days ago, I got the last of them. The baisic specs of the system are an athlon 64 3200+, 1gb ram, nforce 3 250, geforce 6800gt, and 2 200gb hdds. Now heres the problem. When I put in my install disk for winxp(sp0) it didnt recognise the full ammount of the drives. When I tried to partition the drives I got errors. So I was told that I needed one with sp1 or higher. So I got sp2. Still I got errors, though the windows installer recognised both drives to their full capacity. Out of options, I just started changins master/slave settings etc. I ended up using only 1 drive as a master and setting the 32gb capacity limitor on the drive. It got through the format stage and started installing windows, but because of a problem with the cd key, I had to restart and I havent been able to get back to the windows installation since. Now with either sp2 or sp0 discs I have I can format the 32gb drive and install some of the system files, but on restart I get one of 2 errors, either "unmountable boot volume" or an unknown error about ntdll.dll. heres the reason I think its the motherboard. I tried to format a 15gb partition of my 80gb drive from my last computer. I got the same errors. I feel like there is some motherboard option that I'm missing, but I dont have that much experience with the bios(the last box I built worked perfectly). Ive asked this some other places and most people seem to be stumped, but I would really appreciate any/all help you can give me. Thx.