New 636B woes Edit: Other Disk Problems in Windows?

[Thyme]

My computer was doing pretty well with the 4.31 4-in-1s. Then I decided to dual boot with linux again, since I hvaen't since my last computer. I installed Linux to an old HD. Now, even after installing the 4.32 4-in-1s, it freezes more than it ever has. It's terrible. Why would installing Linux to a different HD (LILO is the bootmanager, by the way) make it so horrible?

 

[JJ8]

I dual boot W2K and Linux on the same disk off of my Pro2A, and have had zero problems. I do not believe that Linux has anything to do with your 4-in-1's, even if they are the problem. Perhaps you could try a 3rd party boot manager like System Commander and see if that has any impact on your problem.

 

[Thyme]

Help!

 

[Boonesmi]

are you aware that the via 4in1 4.32 is beta? that means it might have bugs. the newest "final" drivers are the 4.31

a thought: did you add the old hard drive or was it already in there? meaning maybe once you added the extra drive for linux your powersupply isnt able to keep up.

 

[Thyme]

I originally had the 4.31s installed, but it was freezing so I decided to see if the 4.32betas would work.

I think I fixed it though. I reinstalled Linux using GRUB instead. I've been up for 15 minutes so far in windows. <Crosses fingers>

 

[Thyme]

No dice. Still freezes :|:|

any ideas?

 

[Thyme]

^ :|

 

[MadRat]

Troubleshoot the hardware. Don't assume its the motherboard. It could be just about anything - bad card, hard drive controller, overheating stick of memory, poor CPU cooling, searching for DHCP, wrong Linux kernel, etc.

 

[T2T III]

<< Troubleshoot the hardware. Don't assume its the motherboard. It could be just about anything - bad card, hard drive controller, overheating stick of memory, poor CPU cooling, searching for DHCP, wrong Linux kernel, etc. >>


Yeah, but he went ahead and trashed the 636B once again and totally blamed the chip.

 

[xtreme2k]

What File System is the linux you are running?

If it is the linux file system, i forgot the exact name, Win2000 will KEEP looking into that drive thinking there is an error. What you need to do is to remove that drive from Win2000 under 'Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management' and REMOVE that logical drive from Win2000. Win2000 will no longer checks the validity of that drive and will be fine. Win2000 cannot read a non-Fat/NTFS drive anyway, so removing that drive will have no effect but to save your time.

 

[Thyme]

Disk 0 is an NTFS partition and a FAT32 partition
Disk 1 is a linux ext 2 and a linux swap.
I don't know how to remove the logical drives from just windows. All i know how to do is to delete them, but then it says I will lose all data, and I don't know if it is going to delete the partition.

I assumed it was the 636B because it has been freezing my computer for a while. I know, I shouldn't assume, makes an ass out of u and me.

 

[Thyme]

I tried removing it from the device manager but got a BSOD2000.

 

[xtreme2k]

FFS.

Who told you to remove it from device manager? You cannot remove a LOGICAL drive from device manager.

Do it from 'Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management'

 

[Thyme]

Drive G was (i removed the drive letter at least) a physical drive, disk 1. There are no FAT32 or NTFS partitions. I just tried removing the physical drive from the device manager.

I didn't see anything in disk management to tell windows to stop looking for the drive. All the options on those partitions are to delete and format.

 

[Thyme]

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