Hey all.
I just built a new computer:
AMD Athlon +2000
Shuttle MoBo AK32E Slot A, Bus 266
Ram DDR 512 Mb, PC 2100
Cd Burner
Dvd-Rom
30 gig HDD
The problem was this: I put it all together, fired it up and it said that my IDE drives were messed up and not reading right (primary Master, slaves, etc.) I changed the order in the Bios to HDD, Floppy, CDBurner.
Then it didnt work again, and so i checked the ide cables in the unit. I realized I had put the 40 pin IDE (like a jerk) on the HDD and the 80pin IDE (also like a jerk) on the Burner.
I changed then and then it loaded, but it ran reeeeally slow. Everything booted fine, but it took forever for the IDE drives to load. I finally got to put in XP Pro, but halfway through they prompt you restart, so i did. when it reloaded, what i had installed didn't stay, and it made me reinstall XP from the start (like it didnt register right on the HDD).
It kept giving me this crap, so I changed a few boot things in the Bios, and tried again, same problem. I finnaly just zeroed the Bios and all with the jumper on the Mobo and then everything flew. I installed XP pro from the start and everything was good from then on---
Does anyone know the settings in the BIOS that would have changed why it booted soooo slow? m(10 minutes to take a floppy)???
Anything would help guys---
Thanks