ok, thats strange. I enabled the Marvell IDE controller in the bios and started my pc up again. It appears normal until after ive seen the green vista bar scrolling. After that point my monitor just turns off! I can log into the pc remotely via RDP though so its started up. Any ideas? (I've disabled the controller again but that didn't fix it)
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Could be a curve ball and have nothing to do with enabling the Marvell controller? sounds like your GPU is playing up?
Maybe try a CMOS reset, if that doesn't fix it then it's almost certainly nothing to do with enabling the controller.
Good suggestion!
I think thats for the DriveXpert feature and not the eSata, at least I didn't install any Marvell drivers to get mine working.
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Panic over! I should really check the DVI cable 
I guess it was plugged in enough for low res stuff, but as soon as the res was higher it didn't like it.
Ive enabled the controller now. Funny thing is, under Disk Management I see there is a un-initialised disk of 8gb. what is that about? I try and initialise it and it doesnt work??
I guess it was plugged in enough for low res stuff, but as soon as the res was higher it didn't like it.Ive enabled the controller now. Funny thing is, under Disk Management I see there is a un-initialised disk of 8gb. what is that about? I try and initialise it and it doesnt work??
Muppet!
What I do is once the drive is connected I then insert my Windows XP installation disk and restart the PC so that it boots from the Windows CD_ROM and let it run to the point I am looking at the disks in the XP set-up pages (where u can make partitions and stuff). Once there I quite set-up (F3 I think?) and then remove the CD and start Windows normally, once you look in Disk Manager you will see you disk initialized and ready to have a partition made and formatted etc
I'm sure there is an easier way to do this from Windows itself but I found the disk management thing doesn't sort the drive in the way I want it done i.e a regular primary partition and not some weird dynamic volume.
Further help on disk setup can be found here
Luke I have no idea what your on about, I'll leave you to sit and scratch your head for a bit!
I'm certainly scratching my head on this one...
I have a number of hard drives in my PC connected to the main SATA ports. After enabling the esata port in the bios (and after my dvi hiccup) if i look under disk management another (8gb) disk has appeared. I havent plugged anymore drives in, and there is nothing plugged into the esata port.
I have a number of hard drives in my PC connected to the main SATA ports. After enabling the esata port in the bios (and after my dvi hiccup) if i look under disk management another (8gb) disk has appeared. I havent plugged anymore drives in, and there is nothing plugged into the esata port.
