:Bought a 1.2ghz barebones system for my father. Anyway I am not sure if this is normal procedure with some companies, but when I recieved the case, the mobo was already installed with the wrong screws. Second they gave me an Iwill mobo instead of a Biostar.
Apart from that, this case was supposed to be stable, well here is my case.
When I setup the case I bought a
cd rw Samsung
52xcd-rom Samsung
Geforce 2 MX400 VC
sound blaster 5.1
Mobo Iwill KK266
1.2ghz amd OCZ gladiator 8000rpm
Hard drive Maxtor 20gb 7200rpm
bios date code October 22, 2001.
Issues: When I install Win2k, this is after flashing the bios, I have the cd in the cd rom drive , It prepares the system and the installation begins, however the cd will run, then slow down then increase in speed and the copying would go extremely slow. Ie in 5 or 6 minutes only 3 percent of the installation would get done. Thus it would complete like 14 percent and fail or freeze up I get the typical message, "if this is the first time this error has happened check hardware bla bla bla" Well then I disconnected the CD-rom and would use the CD-RW and re-certified the harddrive using Maxtors power tools. Well passed all of those. So I did the installation again and the same error with the CDRW.
Thus I gave up with Win2000. I decided to use Win98 sec which is better I guess for gaming since my dad likes Counter Strike and Flight Simulator and he is almost 60. Again I found the the same error but managed to install on the third try and it's now 3:30 am 🙁.
I managed to install all the drivers without a problem and hooked up to my buddies network and copied what I needed. When it came to copying games such as Sierra, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and so on it would do the same load up but the copying of files from the cd drives to the hard disk would give me the blue screen of death and an error : "Error writing to C: Drive" and I would automatically do a thorough surface scan when restarting.
So basically I came to the conclusion that the KK266 either sucks or I'm an idiot and should stick to Nintendos!! Well I made a complaint to the company I bought the system from and hopefully they with refund me or give me a working system. However in all honesty, I think that the mobo might have been ruined due to the companies neglect. In any case if someone has any ideas tell me so my father will stop using my DAMN computer 🙁
Apart from that, this case was supposed to be stable, well here is my case.
When I setup the case I bought a
cd rw Samsung
52xcd-rom Samsung
Geforce 2 MX400 VC
sound blaster 5.1
Mobo Iwill KK266
1.2ghz amd OCZ gladiator 8000rpm
Hard drive Maxtor 20gb 7200rpm
bios date code October 22, 2001.
Issues: When I install Win2k, this is after flashing the bios, I have the cd in the cd rom drive , It prepares the system and the installation begins, however the cd will run, then slow down then increase in speed and the copying would go extremely slow. Ie in 5 or 6 minutes only 3 percent of the installation would get done. Thus it would complete like 14 percent and fail or freeze up I get the typical message, "if this is the first time this error has happened check hardware bla bla bla" Well then I disconnected the CD-rom and would use the CD-RW and re-certified the harddrive using Maxtors power tools. Well passed all of those. So I did the installation again and the same error with the CDRW.
Thus I gave up with Win2000. I decided to use Win98 sec which is better I guess for gaming since my dad likes Counter Strike and Flight Simulator and he is almost 60. Again I found the the same error but managed to install on the third try and it's now 3:30 am 🙁.
I managed to install all the drivers without a problem and hooked up to my buddies network and copied what I needed. When it came to copying games such as Sierra, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and so on it would do the same load up but the copying of files from the cd drives to the hard disk would give me the blue screen of death and an error : "Error writing to C: Drive" and I would automatically do a thorough surface scan when restarting.
So basically I came to the conclusion that the KK266 either sucks or I'm an idiot and should stick to Nintendos!! Well I made a complaint to the company I bought the system from and hopefully they with refund me or give me a working system. However in all honesty, I think that the mobo might have been ruined due to the companies neglect. In any case if someone has any ideas tell me so my father will stop using my DAMN computer 🙁
