ok, to cut a long story short...
setup....
Asus A8N SLI Premium
Athlon 64 3000 venice
Geforce 7600GT
2 x 160gig maxtor SATA HDD's
1 x 80gig IDE Maxtor HDD
1.5gig DDR400 (1gig geil, 512mb kingston 2x matched pairs)
Yesterday my pc froze whilst i was at work, got home and could not get it started again, hal.Dll was missing?
Today, reinstalled windows XP, had problems on one drive which i'm putting down to a dodgy Sata drive with partition magic struggling with it. got it installed on the other SATA drive but when i install the Ethernet / sata drivers etc, they say they have installed and to reboot, so i do and i try to go on net and i can't. hmmmm, install windows on my 80gig IDE drive, i'm on net here, ok just to be sure, format both sata drives and reinstall windows, same thing, drivers install but no net and device manager has the yellow exclamation marks as before. so now i'm back on my 80gig drive and typing this to see if anyone might be able to tell me what might be the problem?
thanks.
setup....
Asus A8N SLI Premium
Athlon 64 3000 venice
Geforce 7600GT
2 x 160gig maxtor SATA HDD's
1 x 80gig IDE Maxtor HDD
1.5gig DDR400 (1gig geil, 512mb kingston 2x matched pairs)
Yesterday my pc froze whilst i was at work, got home and could not get it started again, hal.Dll was missing?
Today, reinstalled windows XP, had problems on one drive which i'm putting down to a dodgy Sata drive with partition magic struggling with it. got it installed on the other SATA drive but when i install the Ethernet / sata drivers etc, they say they have installed and to reboot, so i do and i try to go on net and i can't. hmmmm, install windows on my 80gig IDE drive, i'm on net here, ok just to be sure, format both sata drives and reinstall windows, same thing, drivers install but no net and device manager has the yellow exclamation marks as before. so now i'm back on my 80gig drive and typing this to see if anyone might be able to tell me what might be the problem?
thanks.