Posted this on hardware also. Please assist.

[Junior77]

Here is the story. I just changed my motherboard from a kt7 to a kt7a and from a 1.1Ghz to a 1.3Ghz. I connected everything fine. I'm at the point of formating the harddisk through the windows 2000 setup and it freezes up on 0%. I have two 40GB WD harddrives. Now, my reason for switching out Mobo's and CPU's is that when i bought a new heatsinker for the 1.1Ghz, I accidently scratched the CPU and motherboard when trying to get the clips down. I began getting freeze ups, and I thought it had to do with overheating and the scratches. So now, I thought my primary harddisk was bad because it would not format. So what I did was, I disconnected the cable to both harddrives and placed it just on the second harddrive and made that the primary. As the PC boots up, it doesn't detect the harddrive on the first try, but on the second it detects it, but right after I get a Master Harddisk fail message. Which Is what I got trying it with the first harddrive thinking that was bad. So I figure something else is the problem, because both drives can't be bad all of a sudden. I made sure the jumpers on the drives were set to primary when I tried both seperately. Now I'm thinking it's a bad power supply. I was thinking it's not getting enough power. I have a 300w power supply. I was thinking since i have a voodoo 5 agp (which takes up a lot of power I heard), I have 2 extra fans (1 bay and 1 PCI). Does anyone have any ideas? I'm about to buy a 400w PS today.

 

[obenton]

I'd use the IDE33 connectors, and see if the disks format using DOS fdisk and format. Also, the WD diagnostic program might be helpful.

 

[Junior77]

What's the difference between those connectors and the ones' that come with the mobo?

 

[cwpc]

I have the same problem with my Soyo K7Via motherboard w/ 700MHZ Thunderbird.
i have 128 MB Kingston Memory
13 Gb, and a 6.4 GB maxtor hard drive.
16 MB AGP TNT Video card
Soundblaster PCI 128
Intel 10/100 NIC
300 W power Supply
Generic Floppy, and Cd-rom

i have trried all different versions of windows from 95 through XP.

Please help

 

[obenton]

Two standard IDE33 ports, and two ATA66/100 ports. The motherboard manual diagram would show you which was which.

 

[cwpc]

I found out that the problem was with my motherboard, and Soyo is replacing it.

Have them check the System clock on your board - to make sure the quartz is not damaged.