A friend has given me her computer which has a 8gb drive that only has around 300mb of space left.
I got an 80gb drive for it but the 80gb drive is not supported by her mobo which is an MSI 6163.
So I then got a 40gb drive for it and jumpered it to 32gb. It was detected in the BIOS no worries. I then partitioned the drive, started windows and formatted the drive.
Now whenever I try to start the computer it locks up. Sometimes at the boot screen, sometimes whilst doing a scan disc (If I walk away and forget to cancel it) and even in safe mode it will lock up a few minutes after getting into Windows.
If I remove the drive it makes no difference and the computer still locks up.
There is a BIOS update that I was going to try but am not sure if that would work as it locks up in Windows. Any suggestions??