Hello
1. I bought the SOYO K7VME as part of the barebones kit From TigerDirect. I have installed a AMD AXP 2800+ in it. I got it as a boxed processor and it did not have the tape on the bottom of the heatsink protecting the off-white thermal compound. Calld Fry's and was told that it was OK to use.
On installing it works and the CPU temp is 45C. Is this too high? Is using the heatsink that did not have the tape on the bottom OK?
2. I am trying to install WinXP Home on the Seagat ST38410A drive I have. I used the Seagate DiskWizard tool to create a win98 and a NTFS partition on the entire drive (separately) using another PC with a floppy drive.
Each time when I boot WinXP CD and try to install it, the WinXP setup cannot see the NTFS or Win98 partition. It reports x MB as unformatted space and prompts to create a partition but on pressing C, it does not do anything and returns to the X MB unformatted space display.
I wonder if this is a defective drive or a bad MoBo BIOS. Also, even if I don't set the FDD as one of the boot devices, the MoBo tries to boot from there and stops.
Please help.
Thanks