Revisited - Will pay you $10 you can help me resolve my issue

[Magoomba]

It took a while, but finally resolved my problem.
In fact my original thread has been closed and archived.
Original thread

Anyway, turned out to be two problems.
The the motherboard was faulty and as other people had mentioned, the Maxtor wouldn't work with the chipset on the motherboard.
I have since changed out the motherboard and put in a Samsung HD.

Since a number of people mentioned the incompatibility issue, I took their user ids and did a random draw.

So the winner of the $10 via Paypal is... SparkyJJO

SparkyJJO: please PM me your Paypal account info.

Thank you to everyone for helping me resolve my issue.

 

[Lord Evermore]

That's...cool. Very surprising that somebody would come back and pay up on something like that. I doubt it was the lure of money that made anybody offer their help.

You could just PM him to ask.

 

[IrateLeaf]

careful sparky.

 

[Magoomba]

Hey I totally believe in karma.
One must be true to their own words otherwise we'd be no different than the animals, swinging on trees and throwing poop at each other.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Hey there got your PM but I can't send you a PM back, you have it disabled. Enable it first, then send me a PM again

Wow I totally forgot about the whole problem that you had - I post so much on these boards sometimes I can't remember everything.

 

[Magoomba]

I was totally not aware of the PM enable feature.
Thanks.
Please try again.