Good news/Bad news.

penguinrusty

penguinrusty

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Good news: I just got my compy working. It's fully funcional, and I just got my ram (2gb of Geil 400mhz), but I still haven't gotten my video cards (I'm using a crummy Radeon X300), and I got this sweet Counter-strike window decal for CHRISTmas. Now for the:

Bad news: After I install windows XP, I install the drivers for my motherboard. Then, when I restart, the computer freezes on the loading screen where it says Windows XP and there's that little blue bar thingy. But, the computer will work fine in safe mode. I've wiped the hdd and re-installed Windows XP 4 more times, but it still keeps happening. Any idea what's wrong? And am I right in saying that the DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-Dr doesn't need to have drivers installed for SATA hard drives? I have a sata hard drive, and when i put in the driver CD, all it has is a driver for RAID, not for just SATA.
 
K. I was just wondering because there's RAID drivers, but no just plain SATA hard drives. Here's my system, if it helps:

Athlon 64 3500+
2gb Geil Value RAM
DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR
Dual 7800 GT's (But a single X300 for now)
Ultra X-Connect 500watt
Maxtor 100gb SATA hdd
AOpen 16x DVD/CD burner
 
Nice rig...
If you system works in Safe mode and in normal mode can go up to the loading screen, it can't be an HDD driver, but maybe a faulty file in your OS (safe mode uses less files than normal - but you probably knew that). Are you using a genuine copy of windows?
 
stalex111 said:
secondly, it doesnt need drivers, HDD's are plug and play.
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Correction : IDE drives are "plug and play". SATA and SCSI drives are not natively supported by Windows XP; so if you're planning to install XP on it, you'll have to install drivers first.
 
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