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Tekk · April 10th, 2002, 07:48 PM

Hey Ghosty how much are the mobo testing cards??? What exactly do they tell you? I work at a smaller shop so we dont have all the parts we should

hehe..but how much would a tester be? Maybe I can convince my boss in a situation like this

UPDATE ON COMPUTER FROM HELL:

Well after trying the new HDD and getting the same problem, I decided I would try to do a workaround. I stuck the original HDD as a slave on an XP shop machine we have here and wanted to format it in the NTFS so I could skip that whole step in the setup. Well...the original HDD was just boggin XP. What I mean is XP just hated that drive (A Western Digital 20GB). It wouldn't even access it. For example, when I wanted to format it, I right clicked on it in the explorer and the hourglass came up but would stay up for about 30 sec- 1 min then it would disappear but no menu would pop up. Anyway, I swapped it with the new 40GB HDD to format that.

Well just for funs sake I decided to try the original HDD again in the computer from hell. So I do all the setup disks for Win2k and FINALLY get to the format screen and HEY!! The disk sizes are the same!!! (it says 19572 both times!! Instead of that damn 7124).

HOPEFULLY it will format correctly so I can finish and go home. *sigh* Talk about a bad day to work. Plus Im sick with larengitis so I cant yell at the damn thing

April 10th, 2002, 07:48 PM	#9 (permalink)
Tekk Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Pasadena, CA Posts: 2,177	Hey Ghosty how much are the mobo testing cards??? What exactly do they tell you? I work at a smaller shop so we dont have all the parts we should hehe..but how much would a tester be? Maybe I can convince my boss in a situation like this UPDATE ON COMPUTER FROM HELL: Well after trying the new HDD and getting the same problem, I decided I would try to do a workaround. I stuck the original HDD as a slave on an XP shop machine we have here and wanted to format it in the NTFS so I could skip that whole step in the setup. Well...the original HDD was just boggin XP. What I mean is XP just hated that drive (A Western Digital 20GB). It wouldn't even access it. For example, when I wanted to format it, I right clicked on it in the explorer and the hourglass came up but would stay up for about 30 sec- 1 min then it would disappear but no menu would pop up. Anyway, I swapped it with the new 40GB HDD to format that. Well just for funs sake I decided to try the original HDD again in the computer from hell. So I do all the setup disks for Win2k and FINALLY get to the format screen and HEY!! The disk sizes are the same!!! (it says 19572 both times!! Instead of that damn 7124). HOPEFULLY it will format correctly so I can finish and go home. sigh Talk about a bad day to work. Plus Im sick with larengitis so I cant yell at the damn thing __________________ YAH! I knew you'd be jealous Last edited by Tekk : April 10th, 2002 at 08:47 PM.