Alright so I'm familiar with motherboard settings but I think I've met my block here with this PM8M-V working with this emachine. This guy brought it over to me said it didn't start up anymore so I replaced his power supply and that still didn't do it so I figured it to be his motherboard. I put everything from the old motherboard into the new one and set everything up to read all the parts through the slave and set the hardwares jumpers to be proper with the master/secondary settings and what not. After all of this I start up the computer and it begins to display a quick flash of the dimmed XP logo coming in to load but does not instead the 5 sec off on the monitor displays and the computer restarts.
I figure I needed his recovery software at this point. I get this software tonight and run the emachine recovery wizard and format windows and install the software from the cds (3 of them) and complete the process it restarts and then again it does it witht the screen and restarts the computer. Looking at some details when it boots up it says something about Serial_Ch0 not being found and a Serial_Ch1 I believe. Now I thought the problem to now be with the raid or SATA configs if I am not mistaken? I've tried disabling this feature through the bios cause I didn't think it needed any of this and it was causing me problems booting the thing up but it still continues with the emachines software it doesn't ask me to add the raid drivers from the disk that came with the mobo so in a last attempt here I'm trying to install my copied version of WinXP using that F6 add other device option through the cd to the disk cause I figured you had to go through the whole installation to install the raid disk information through cause when I tried to exit before after that point it gave me a warning about not installing windows xp.
At this point it looks like it is working cause it's in the windows with the installtion process, etc. loaded it up to this point... seems ok so far but I'd really much rather prefer using this guys emachine content and have his software installed not mine but again if it comes down to setting it up through f6 I don't recall the emachine software ever bringing that up just format and install as far as I know. If anyones familiar with the emachine T2885 and what I should do at this point to get this guys software (his version of xp and other software included) I'd much appreciate the reply.
I figure I needed his recovery software at this point. I get this software tonight and run the emachine recovery wizard and format windows and install the software from the cds (3 of them) and complete the process it restarts and then again it does it witht the screen and restarts the computer. Looking at some details when it boots up it says something about Serial_Ch0 not being found and a Serial_Ch1 I believe. Now I thought the problem to now be with the raid or SATA configs if I am not mistaken? I've tried disabling this feature through the bios cause I didn't think it needed any of this and it was causing me problems booting the thing up but it still continues with the emachines software it doesn't ask me to add the raid drivers from the disk that came with the mobo so in a last attempt here I'm trying to install my copied version of WinXP using that F6 add other device option through the cd to the disk cause I figured you had to go through the whole installation to install the raid disk information through cause when I tried to exit before after that point it gave me a warning about not installing windows xp.
At this point it looks like it is working cause it's in the windows with the installtion process, etc. loaded it up to this point... seems ok so far but I'd really much rather prefer using this guys emachine content and have his software installed not mine but again if it comes down to setting it up through f6 I don't recall the emachine software ever bringing that up just format and install as far as I know. If anyones familiar with the emachine T2885 and what I should do at this point to get this guys software (his version of xp and other software included) I'd much appreciate the reply.
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