Can't get my Drives to work on new build

MTAtech · April 15th, 2007, 05:06 PM

It may be obvious but I didn't see anyone mention jumpers, which most of the time are the cause of HD non-recognition. Make sure that the HD is master and the CD is slave if they're on the same IDE channel.

Imperion1 · April 15th, 2007, 07:23 PM

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_r100.htmHere's a link to the driver for the Rocket card. Download v1.23 for Windows, save to the hard drive. Extract the file to the hard drive. Copy the extracted files to a formatted floppy. This will be your Driver floppy for the Rocket Card.
Be sure to choose the Highpoint ATA100 for Windows XP driver after pressing F6 during windows install.

dr_roberts49 · April 16th, 2007, 01:28 AM

All is done. Thank you SO MUCH Imperion1. Followed each step you outlined and everything worked perfectly. Have all my other drives, scanner and printer hooked up. Even got my case lights back in and my cables wrapped, tubed and tidy. This computer smokes. I'll be up a couple of more hours loading some of my stuff back Too bad I have to work early tomorrow, but I'm off on Tuesday! Learned a lot on this install. I'll be starting on my friend's computer as soon as he orders his video card and ram. Thanks again to everyone for the input. TechIMO is awesome as always.

Robert

Imperion1 · April 16th, 2007, 06:04 PM

You are welcome. Learn many things from trial and error.

Rootstonian · April 16th, 2007, 08:10 PM

Yeah, building puters is a blast...wish I could do it for a living and make the money I do as a programmer

dr_roberts49 · April 23rd, 2007, 12:53 AM

Just a follow up. It's been one week, and I love this machine. This is by far, the best computer I've built to date, and I built it for myself, and not someone else. It's rock solid stable, and extremely fast. It also runs extremely quite and extremely cool.

I can't believe that went through hell for nearly 7 months with my computer. I had lost a good paying job, and decided to buy myself a new cpu and motherboard to cheer myself up. I got a good price on a Pentium D and ABIT mobo from TigerDirect, but the board came with an SIS chipset, rather than the Intel chipset board I thought I was getting. Turned out to be a missprint. Anyway, the price was good, and I planned to upgrade in a couple of months. The board turned out to be a nightmare. First, it wasn't dual channel, but it did run the older 184 pin ddr ram, which I had a set of (2x 512). This whole system turned out to be Frankenstein. I ran into money problems, and couldn't replace any of the hardware. I had given the P4 system (motherboard & cpu) to my youngest daughter, along with a new case, monitor, mouse & keyboard, and a 160GB hard drive. My system was so unstable, I quit doing my serious work on it, and used my daughter's computer. I couldn't even play games anymore. It did random boots and lockups. It wasn't just any one thing, but a bad combination.

All that has changed now. It took a long time, but I'm happy. It would be nice to have a 2 Core Duo, and I know the new motherboard that my friend gave me is the only Intel 975x chipset board (ABIT) that doesn't support the 2 Core Duos, but I made my shift from AGP to PCI Express, I've invested in a new SATA drive (picked it up today), and I have just ordered another matched pair of Corsair 2 x 512MB of DDR2 800 XMS memory, so maybe in several months, I can get a 2 Core Duo motherboard, but right now, I'm in love with my new machine!

Robert