One of those days! ggrrr bleep

Neil79

Neil79

Neil79

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Long boring story approaches :p

Decided to fix my sisters computer with a new hard drive as her one was grinding and a different graphics card as she was unable at times to get past the "monitor sleeping mode", in other words no display. Opened up the computer, put in the new drive and there was no secondary power cable for a newish gfx card, some cheepo 400w psu and lack of cables. Had to make do with her old gfx :( I spent the next god knows how many hours trying to get the system to boot properly, how ever many cmos resets and all it did was load a few fans but not the cpu one. Basically exactly what it was doing before! Nearly gave up and all of a sudden after trying a new vga cable we had the bios screen and it was booting into windows. YAY so i thought, spent the next 30mins or more bog eyed at the installing screen for windows 8 and gave up. Turned out I had to after reading google, disable the floppy drive, wolla it was installing.

Installed Windows 8 but then ran into difficulty trying to get her old x1950 to detect, had to download a driver mod and while ccc isn't currently working she had full graphics. All was well, sister came home, turned the computer on and... NO DISPLAY :mad::mad::mad::mad: Restarted and it said "Overclocking had failed", it wasn't even overclocked! It was at complete defaults, with a properly set up bios, so I tried again, and for the next 3hrs it was working fine. Sister comes back later, again it didn't start up properly :rolleyes:

Came home to put the new SSD drive in my system and one of the screws falls inbetween the metal internal's. Then when I finally get it installed, with a back ache killing me, I find out that ACHI mode is disabled as it was set to RAID which you need to do for the SSD CACHE set up which I'm no longer running. Ooops I thought i've been running Windows 8 in raid mode with no ACHI, so I turn on ACHI in bios and Windows 8 freezes and no longer boots. Get that fixed thanks to a registry edit, ACHI mode is now working with Windows 8 good as new ;)

I click on Format to make a new partition and instead of clicking QUICK, I click FORMAT.

OMG What a day :mad:
 
I wouldn't go near a computer again tonight. :p The best thing for you is to settle down with some music and a large stiff drink.
 
It's always the jobs that should be simple...

Went to put win7 on a laptop the other night, setup said it couldn't create system partition. Never seen that before, was left scratching head for a while :p

Turns out win7 won't install if you have a USB device with higher boot priority than any of your fixed disks. Haven't run into this before since I always use images these days (win7 on a VM, image the VM, boot to winPE, apply the image).

The one thing that **** me off is the people who post "solutions" on web forums, and haven't got a clue what they're talking about. Creates so much "white noise" that it's hard to find a genuine solution among all the blatantly WRONG information.
 
X1950 runs fine on my old machine but not with the latest drivers they did, had to roll back a couple.

+1 for running xp on an old machine.
 
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