Right, I'm completely stumped by this one.
Got 4GB of RAM through yesterday and a SATA writer. Plugged it all in and something made an almighty bang in my PC. Straight after my PC refused to POST. I tried everything and eventually I removed the mobo and reseated it and got it working. Found out that the writer had no power so I put my old one in.
At the same time I got through another two raptors and put them in raid 0 with my existing drives. Since I now had 4GB I thought I'd eventually put Vista on. So it boots from the CD and it takes an absoloute age to do anything. Thinking it might have been either the RAM or the drives I systematically tried everything and no avail.
So I popped in the XP disc and the same. I'm talking about a good 10 mins on Vista before I get the language screen (from memory it took no longer then two mins). XP was still loading all the drivers slowly for about 10 mins (the bit before it asks for third party drivers to select RAID drivers).
I checked all the settings in the BIOS and there isn't much that I can think of it being.
I've now got Vista on and it's running quick but choppy if that makes sence.
Is there some form of whole system benchmark that I can do that will stress test everything and highlight something that might be wrong? I know this is all a bit vague, but I know that something isn't right. I've checked all the BIOS settings and all sorts. The system scores 5.8 in Vista though so the OS thinks everything is fine. Oh and my now three drive raptor stripe (I broke the sata connector on one) is running awfully slow, see HDD section for that thread.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Got 4GB of RAM through yesterday and a SATA writer. Plugged it all in and something made an almighty bang in my PC. Straight after my PC refused to POST. I tried everything and eventually I removed the mobo and reseated it and got it working. Found out that the writer had no power so I put my old one in.
At the same time I got through another two raptors and put them in raid 0 with my existing drives. Since I now had 4GB I thought I'd eventually put Vista on. So it boots from the CD and it takes an absoloute age to do anything. Thinking it might have been either the RAM or the drives I systematically tried everything and no avail.
So I popped in the XP disc and the same. I'm talking about a good 10 mins on Vista before I get the language screen (from memory it took no longer then two mins). XP was still loading all the drivers slowly for about 10 mins (the bit before it asks for third party drivers to select RAID drivers).
I checked all the settings in the BIOS and there isn't much that I can think of it being.
I've now got Vista on and it's running quick but choppy if that makes sence.
Is there some form of whole system benchmark that I can do that will stress test everything and highlight something that might be wrong? I know this is all a bit vague, but I know that something isn't right. I've checked all the BIOS settings and all sorts. The system scores 5.8 in Vista though so the OS thinks everything is fine. Oh and my now three drive raptor stripe (I broke the sata connector on one) is running awfully slow, see HDD section for that thread.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
