> Chaintech VNF4 nForce 4 Athlon 64(FX)/Sempron Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA
>Bios Ver 2.0 Date 2005/02/03
>Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor Socket 939
>Logisys PS500MSGN 500W Meshed Green LED ATX/BTX Power
>Mem: 512 K DDR400
>Display adapters: Abit RX600 Pro-PCIE Radeon X600 Pro PCI Express 256MB DDR Video Card
>Win XP Pro w/ SP2
>LiteOn 52X24X52X CD RW
>D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter
>Lucent Win Modem
The system works fine with and boots from either of the following HD:
I did a fresh install on the IBM and cloned over to the WD. The system will recognize and boot from either drive.
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 120GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
Western Digital WD800BB 80 Gig PATA HD
The system does not work with:
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B250S0 250GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer
MDL# 6B250S0A6530B
Mfg.Date 15AUG2004
The system most of the time will not even display the drive as present during system boot up. The OS can not be installed because the drive is not detected. If I connect the drive during the boot process, the system will pause to try and identify the drive. The system seems to detect something but it can?t be identified most of the time. On the occasions that the system detects the drive it still can not access the drive.
Oddly, if the SATA IBM or the PATA WD hard drives are set up as the boot drives and I connect the Maxtor to the computer, the system still will not boot from either the SATA or even the PATA drive. The following happens:
After system self test (most of the time the Maxtor was not even detected), the system attempts to boot from the IBM or WD HD and hangs in one of two ways.
1. Screen goes blank and system locks after attempting to load WIN XP Pro.
2. Screen shows WIN XP?s first startup screen and hangs, but strangely the display is very dim as if the brightness was turned way down.
I thought it may be a bad drive so I purchased a second identical drive with the intent of returning the first one if it was bad. However the second drive behaved the same way.
I have tested the drives on a different PC and it appears to work fine.
There seem to be a compatibility issue with the Maxtor DiamondMax 10s and the Chaintech VNF4 nForce MB.
I have spent many hours trying to resolve the issue. Could anyone be of assistance?
Paul
>Bios Ver 2.0 Date 2005/02/03
>Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor Socket 939
>Logisys PS500MSGN 500W Meshed Green LED ATX/BTX Power
>Mem: 512 K DDR400
>Display adapters: Abit RX600 Pro-PCIE Radeon X600 Pro PCI Express 256MB DDR Video Card
>Win XP Pro w/ SP2
>LiteOn 52X24X52X CD RW
>D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter
>Lucent Win Modem
The system works fine with and boots from either of the following HD:
I did a fresh install on the IBM and cloned over to the WD. The system will recognize and boot from either drive.
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 120GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
Western Digital WD800BB 80 Gig PATA HD
The system does not work with:
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B250S0 250GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer
MDL# 6B250S0A6530B
Mfg.Date 15AUG2004
The system most of the time will not even display the drive as present during system boot up. The OS can not be installed because the drive is not detected. If I connect the drive during the boot process, the system will pause to try and identify the drive. The system seems to detect something but it can?t be identified most of the time. On the occasions that the system detects the drive it still can not access the drive.
Oddly, if the SATA IBM or the PATA WD hard drives are set up as the boot drives and I connect the Maxtor to the computer, the system still will not boot from either the SATA or even the PATA drive. The following happens:
After system self test (most of the time the Maxtor was not even detected), the system attempts to boot from the IBM or WD HD and hangs in one of two ways.
1. Screen goes blank and system locks after attempting to load WIN XP Pro.
2. Screen shows WIN XP?s first startup screen and hangs, but strangely the display is very dim as if the brightness was turned way down.
I thought it may be a bad drive so I purchased a second identical drive with the intent of returning the first one if it was bad. However the second drive behaved the same way.
I have tested the drives on a different PC and it appears to work fine.
There seem to be a compatibility issue with the Maxtor DiamondMax 10s and the Chaintech VNF4 nForce MB.
I have spent many hours trying to resolve the issue. Could anyone be of assistance?
Paul