madmonkeymayhem Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 I have a Lan Party NFII ultra B, XP3000 CPU & a 120gb seagate SATA HDD. I've basically built a new system from scratch but I'm having an absolute nightmare trying to get it to work! All works fine if I use my old 20gb ATA HDD, but the minute I swap to the SATA drive, windows starts to hang, I lose all my ACPI functions & things generally just dont work! I have installed all the latest Mobo/BIOS/SATA drivers, windows updates etc, but no joy. It's definately the SATA causing problems but I dont know why. Any ideas guys?? :confused: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 please look at the important info sticky and list your specs in your sig look at these bios screens also: http://www.angrygames.com/Infinity_bios.htm (2x Raptor SATA drives) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 DFI LANPARTY NFII ULTRA B XP3000 Barton 512MB Corsair 2X256 TwinX Seagate 120 SATA Samsung CDRW/DVD Combo Geforce 2 mx440 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 put it in your sig not in your post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 DFI LANPARTY NFII ULTRA B XP3000 Barton 512MB Corsair 2X256 TwinX Seagate 120 SATA Samsung CDRW/DVD Combo Geforce 2 mx440 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 Oops.. Sorry. :angel: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 There.. Sorry about all that. I have tried the BIOS changes but I get either instant reboot (when cpu ratio settings are applied) or the system hangs when windows boots. Any more ideas? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted May 27, 2004 Posted May 27, 2004 put your DDR Freq to 1:1 (after Load Optimized Defaults, save and exit). try a single stick of RAM also and see if that gets you anywhere. Make sure the SATA settings are correct. what bios version are you using? try to boot with only the SATA let me know! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted May 28, 2004 Posted May 28, 2004 I've had another go with the BIOS settings you sent and corrected a few of my mistakes . All appears OK at first: Windows now detects a RAID controller instead of a Mass Storage Controller, and seems to install it OK. Also, the ACPI functions are now working. However, the system still keeps freezing after a while, and I also dont get the "DDR DRAM Dual Channel Enabled" during the POST as per your screen shots. Would the crashes be because my XP3000 is now overclocked to 3200? And is there a setting I may have missed to enable the dual channel DRAM? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted May 28, 2004 Posted May 28, 2004 BTW - My BIOS is dated 11/27/2003 - I downloaded the latest version from the DFI website. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted May 28, 2004 Posted May 28, 2004 Jsut one more thing... My event log shows multiple paging and controller errors on DeviceHarddisk0D. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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