Recent content by themilstead

Yeah, the BIOS had been updated, and I was already tending to believe what you said about Maxtor and nF4 chipsets. Even though I had checked all the cables beforehand, it ended up being a bad ribbon cable that had been shipped with the motherboard. I switched it out, and installed XP :D . My...

I mean when the appropriate time came while Windows Setup was loading all the drivers, it asks you if you want to install 3rd party stuff by hitting F6. Doing so lets you load drivers from a floppy, and it'll tell you if the device is there. It found the stuff from the floppy drive, but did not...

It's not a SATA...

XG Vortec 500. The fan's turned all the way up.

I put a working drive in there just to make sure, but with the working HDD and the one in question, I have a new problem. (This sucks). Now Windows Setup goes through all the drivers, and once it gets to the "Starting Windows" dialogue just before the real installation, the machine reboots...

Jumper, cable, everything all works.

LanPartyUT nF4 Ultra-D

Hey all, I have a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 ATA 160GB to use as a master in this new computer I'm building. The BIOS recognized it name and all, so I figured I had no problems...Well, I went to install XP, and before the partitioning/formatting tool came up in setup, I received an error about...