- Jan 15, 2001
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Ok, i'm going to try to keep this short.
Today i took my tower over to my friends house to hook up to his network because we were going to give each other various files we both wanted/needed. My new 40 gig hard drive came, so we put that in, and we also put in a network card of his. We tried running the other 40 gig maxtor on the raid port, but windows didn't recognize the drive, so we put it on the primary ide cable as the slave to the primary hard drive.
My primary hard drive has 2 OS, win2k pro and XP pro. We booted it up, worked fine, recognized the hard drive and everything, so we set up the network card and made a connection, everything STILL worked fine. We then unhooked everything because he needed the network cable for his computer, and we took my tower downstairs and hooked it up w/out a monitor and booted it up. In theory, it should have worked fine, but the computer restarted itself, and we couldn't get it to boot up, so we took it back upstairs, hooked it up to the monitor again, and it wouldn't get past the XP login screen, it would just restart. We couldn't figure out what was wrong and we were really getting frustrated.
We disconnected the new hard drive, and my video card stopped working, so we put in a different video card, which worked, but the computer still would not get past the login screen. Finally we gave up and i brought my now worthless computer home.
When i got home i took out the new hard drive and put in my PCI video card, then i booted it up, same results. Took out both sticks of ram and tried each on its own, same results. I couldn't get anywhere. I disconnected the cd rom, and burner, tried a different power cable on the hard drive, nothing worked, wouldn't go past login screen. I then got out an old hard drive that had Windows 98 on it. Plugged that in, it booted up, recognized new devices, and then it would freeeze. At this point i gave up, unplugged the tower, and went to work.
I returned home two hours later, plugged in the tower, decided to try booting it up. Whala, goes into XP, works OK. Running one stick of ram, PCI video card, CD Burner, CD Rom, Floppy, and modem. I immediately started backing up files because i'm worried that this wont last long.
What are your opinions on what's wrong with this machine? I can't figure out what it is. No clue. My voltages are:
3.3 V = 3.49 V
5.0 V = 5.10 V
12.0V = 12.66 V
System Specs:
AMD Thunderbird 1 ghz
Iwill Kk266-R
Asus GF2 7100 series 64mb (mx 400)
Maxtor 7200 RMP 40 gig HD
if u need more, it's in my sig
Please tell me what you think is wrong, i need suggestions on what to do.
Today i took my tower over to my friends house to hook up to his network because we were going to give each other various files we both wanted/needed. My new 40 gig hard drive came, so we put that in, and we also put in a network card of his. We tried running the other 40 gig maxtor on the raid port, but windows didn't recognize the drive, so we put it on the primary ide cable as the slave to the primary hard drive.
My primary hard drive has 2 OS, win2k pro and XP pro. We booted it up, worked fine, recognized the hard drive and everything, so we set up the network card and made a connection, everything STILL worked fine. We then unhooked everything because he needed the network cable for his computer, and we took my tower downstairs and hooked it up w/out a monitor and booted it up. In theory, it should have worked fine, but the computer restarted itself, and we couldn't get it to boot up, so we took it back upstairs, hooked it up to the monitor again, and it wouldn't get past the XP login screen, it would just restart. We couldn't figure out what was wrong and we were really getting frustrated.
We disconnected the new hard drive, and my video card stopped working, so we put in a different video card, which worked, but the computer still would not get past the login screen. Finally we gave up and i brought my now worthless computer home.
When i got home i took out the new hard drive and put in my PCI video card, then i booted it up, same results. Took out both sticks of ram and tried each on its own, same results. I couldn't get anywhere. I disconnected the cd rom, and burner, tried a different power cable on the hard drive, nothing worked, wouldn't go past login screen. I then got out an old hard drive that had Windows 98 on it. Plugged that in, it booted up, recognized new devices, and then it would freeeze. At this point i gave up, unplugged the tower, and went to work.
I returned home two hours later, plugged in the tower, decided to try booting it up. Whala, goes into XP, works OK. Running one stick of ram, PCI video card, CD Burner, CD Rom, Floppy, and modem. I immediately started backing up files because i'm worried that this wont last long.
What are your opinions on what's wrong with this machine? I can't figure out what it is. No clue. My voltages are:
3.3 V = 3.49 V
5.0 V = 5.10 V
12.0V = 12.66 V
System Specs:
AMD Thunderbird 1 ghz
Iwill Kk266-R
Asus GF2 7100 series 64mb (mx 400)
Maxtor 7200 RMP 40 gig HD
if u need more, it's in my sig
Please tell me what you think is wrong, i need suggestions on what to do.
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