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HELP WITH OLD AMD 750 CHIPSET AND NEW HARD DRIVE!

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Omega3002

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Hello, I was attempting to install a new hard drive to my computer which has a shuttle motherboard with a amd 750 chipset. The new hard drive is a Western Digital 80 gig hard drive with an 8 mb cache so it is fairly new compared to this old motherboard. When I tried to install Windows XP Professional, the system would load as far as just before it goes into the actual setup of formatting and installing windows, so after it loads the initial part the screen just goes blank and progresses no further. I tried using the ide cable that came with the hard drive and the one that was originally in there which was probably a 33 format. I think it might be that the motherboard isnt compatible with the new hard drive but I'm just not sure. The motherboard is such old technology I dont know where to look. Please help me!!! Thanx! 😉
 
I just ditched my old AMD750 chipset board, but i ran WinXP on a 40Gb WD Caviar just fine. I don't think ithere should be any problems with compatibility.

Make sure u formatted in NTFS, and got all the jumpers right. They can screw ya up sometimes. For WD drives if it's a single master you don't use a jumper at all. And if it's a master with a slave i think the jumper goes smack in the middle. not 100% sure, check the top of the drive for jumper placement

That whats way it was with all the WD 80GB "SE" 8mb cachers i've worked with.
 
Yes, check the drive jumper, and during power-up look at the text screens to make sure the BIOS is seeing the drive as 70+ GB (remember drive MB is inflated by using 1,000 not 1,024).
 
Well so far the bios does detect 80 GB and I'm positive I have the correct jumper settings (no jumpers at all for the WD single) and still no luck. Ill keep trying and i might even try using my old hard drive as a master, and using the new one as a slave and formatting to see if it is even working with the rest of my system. Thanks for the help.
 
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