The more I think about this, the more I think it's a windows issue rather than hardware.
OK, my SBLive had been messing up my Netgear FA311. (once I put in the new SB drivers to run BF1942, my network card would just stop working intermittantly until I uninstalled/reinstalled it). So picked up a turtle beach santa cruz this afternoon. removed all the SBLive stuff, put in the TBSC, installed the drivers and such, rebooted.
I go to play an MP3 to test the speakers and notice the entire hard drive isn't showing up in "My Computer," and neither is the other drive on the controller card. Odd, but I've seen weirder. So I reboot, on boot watch to make sure the card and drives appear on the boot screen, everything is fine, but same problem in windows. Shut down, boot from floppy. in DOS, I can see the drives. Load the western digital diagnostic software, it has no problem reading the two drives in question, says they're OK. So I return to Windows.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the controller. Does nothing. Check the drives in device manager. Suddenly, these two IDE drives are showing up as SCSI drives, and according to device manager "working properly." So I head to Disk Manager. Both volumes show up as not initialized. So, I right click and choose to initialize them. Freezes the system totally. Reboot. Then the network card does the same screwy thing it was doing with the SBLive in.
There are no IO, Memory, or IRQ conflicts, either according to windows or checking the actual allocations by hand. here's the whole system setup:
CPU: AMD Athalon XP 1600MHz
Motherboard: EPoX EP8KHA+
Memory: 512 MB of Crucial DDR2100
Video Card: Gainward ti 450 TV (GeForce2)
Hard Drive: Western Digital 80.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Additional Hard Drives: Western Digital, 40GB, 5400 RPMS, WD 30GB @7200 (these are the ones not working)
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 755DF
DVD Manufacturer & Model: Toshiba 16x
CDR/CDRW Manufacturer & Model: Lite-On 24x10x40x
Storage Interface: IDE
Sound Card: TBSC
Operating System: Windows XP Pro
help would be greatly appreciated, I'm at a total loss here...as is everyone I've asked about the problem.
OK, my SBLive had been messing up my Netgear FA311. (once I put in the new SB drivers to run BF1942, my network card would just stop working intermittantly until I uninstalled/reinstalled it). So picked up a turtle beach santa cruz this afternoon. removed all the SBLive stuff, put in the TBSC, installed the drivers and such, rebooted.
I go to play an MP3 to test the speakers and notice the entire hard drive isn't showing up in "My Computer," and neither is the other drive on the controller card. Odd, but I've seen weirder. So I reboot, on boot watch to make sure the card and drives appear on the boot screen, everything is fine, but same problem in windows. Shut down, boot from floppy. in DOS, I can see the drives. Load the western digital diagnostic software, it has no problem reading the two drives in question, says they're OK. So I return to Windows.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the controller. Does nothing. Check the drives in device manager. Suddenly, these two IDE drives are showing up as SCSI drives, and according to device manager "working properly." So I head to Disk Manager. Both volumes show up as not initialized. So, I right click and choose to initialize them. Freezes the system totally. Reboot. Then the network card does the same screwy thing it was doing with the SBLive in.
There are no IO, Memory, or IRQ conflicts, either according to windows or checking the actual allocations by hand. here's the whole system setup:
CPU: AMD Athalon XP 1600MHz
Motherboard: EPoX EP8KHA+
Memory: 512 MB of Crucial DDR2100
Video Card: Gainward ti 450 TV (GeForce2)
Hard Drive: Western Digital 80.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Additional Hard Drives: Western Digital, 40GB, 5400 RPMS, WD 30GB @7200 (these are the ones not working)
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 755DF
DVD Manufacturer & Model: Toshiba 16x
CDR/CDRW Manufacturer & Model: Lite-On 24x10x40x
Storage Interface: IDE
Sound Card: TBSC
Operating System: Windows XP Pro
help would be greatly appreciated, I'm at a total loss here...as is everyone I've asked about the problem.
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