Ok, I haven't put together my own PC in about 4 years, and I don't remember it being this difficult.
I've reformatted twice since yesterday. I am using Windows XP Pro. An ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe board, 2 x Seagate 7200 500 GIG SATA hdd's, 4 gigs of Ram with an AMD Athlon 64 bit 3 gig CPU.
Long story short:
First format/OS install, everything worked fine once I installed mobo drivers. Connected to the internet, everything booted up and it ran quick. The only issue: Windows was not seeing my second hdd. It showed in the BIOS but not the disc manager or "My Computer" (please note: I've never used nor am I familiar with SATA hdds). I thought it may be a master/slave issue, so I moved the jumpers. It still didn't show. Finally I moved the sata cable to another sata spot on my mobo and (for some reason) it showed.
I updated to SP 3 and decided to put the rest of the motherboard utilities on my system.
It then started showing my SATA drives as removable media (which I don't want) and the onboard wireless adaptor keeps telling me it isn't connected (how do I disable that?!?!) It also tells me a network cable is disconnected (it isn't and the cable works fine, I tested it). I check my network devices and it is listing 4 different network devices. 2 of them say connected, 2 are "not connected". I disabled the not connected ones thinking it would use the connected ones. Nope.
I formatted it and reinstalled everything (MAN it takes a long time to format 500 gigs) and now my second HDD has disappeared again (not in the disc manager but still in BIOS). It shows a floppy drive I don't have, the wireless thing is still going crazy and I still have no connection to the internet.
I am in over my head and my wife is going to kill me if I have to take this in somewhere and pay someone to work on it after all the money I've already spent on it.
Please help!
I've reformatted twice since yesterday. I am using Windows XP Pro. An ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe board, 2 x Seagate 7200 500 GIG SATA hdd's, 4 gigs of Ram with an AMD Athlon 64 bit 3 gig CPU.
Long story short:
First format/OS install, everything worked fine once I installed mobo drivers. Connected to the internet, everything booted up and it ran quick. The only issue: Windows was not seeing my second hdd. It showed in the BIOS but not the disc manager or "My Computer" (please note: I've never used nor am I familiar with SATA hdds). I thought it may be a master/slave issue, so I moved the jumpers. It still didn't show. Finally I moved the sata cable to another sata spot on my mobo and (for some reason) it showed.
I updated to SP 3 and decided to put the rest of the motherboard utilities on my system.
It then started showing my SATA drives as removable media (which I don't want) and the onboard wireless adaptor keeps telling me it isn't connected (how do I disable that?!?!
) It also tells me a network cable is disconnected (it isn't and the cable works fine, I tested it). I check my network devices and it is listing 4 different network devices. 2 of them say connected, 2 are "not connected". I disabled the not connected ones thinking it would use the connected ones. Nope. I formatted it and reinstalled everything (MAN it takes a long time to format 500 gigs) and now my second HDD has disappeared again (not in the disc manager but still in BIOS). It shows a floppy drive I don't have, the wireless thing is still going crazy and I still have no connection to the internet.
I am in over my head and my wife is going to kill me if I have to take this in somewhere and pay someone to work on it after all the money I've already spent on it.
Please help!
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