thenemesis876
New Member
Hey all, i'm new here but i have bit of an issue with my comp at the moment and i was wondering if someone could help me out with it, i've been looking at various forums for the last week and i can't seem to find any solution for my problem, so i'll just get straight down to what's happening.
First up, my current rig:
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 1333FSB OC'ed to 3.2ghz
Mobo - ASUS P5K
RAM - 2 x 1gb G.Skill CL4 DDR2 800mhz (PC2-6400) 4-4-3-4
HDD - Western Digital 320gb 7200rpm SATAII KS
VID - ATi Sapphire X800 GT 256mb
DVD Burner - ASUS DRW-1814BLT SATA
PSU - Thermaltake 430W
Keyboard - Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse - Logitech G5 Laser
Ok, i recently purchased a Silicon Image 3132 Raid5 PCI-X Controller and a Western Digital 400gb 7200rpm SATAII KS to go into my comp. So them in and hooked up both my hdd's to the controller. Booted up the comp, launched the raid controller menu, set both hdd's to raid0 64k (total 596gb) and rebooted the comp. Not a problem so far.
So i continued to install Windows XP Professional 32bit with SP2 onto an 80gig NTFS partition made with the windows installer. With windows installed i proceeded to install drivers, updates etc (involved rebooting the comp a few times). So after it was done with the basics i turned it off and went to bed. Woke up, used the comp for an hour or so, no dramas, turned it off. Got back from work 9 hours later, went to boot and while XP was in the loading screen with the bar near the bottom it would scroll across once and a bit then it will really slow down, so slow it'd take about 30 secs for it to do the next bar. I could get into safe mode, but that was it. Nothing else would work
So anyway after re-installing XP so many times, i tried xp x64. With xp x64 i never had any boot dramams, but after a while i couldnt install any new programs like Firefox or even my new ATi drivers. And i don't want to install Vista because i'm trying to build a gaming set up here lol.
So i tried eliminating a few things like taking off my overclocks, changing the ports thats the hdd's were plugged into, and a whole range of other things but still no go.
So i was wondering if anyone out there could help me out with my problem, i have installed XP so many times over the last week im just sick of it. But when it does work, the performance gain i have had has been pretty wicked. But i just can't get it to stay working lol. So at the moment i've got XP installed onto an old 80gig ide hdd i was able to find in the garage.
Oh and i know this is a lot of info in the one thread, but in my experience it's always better to detail everything first then trying to explain it and include forgotten things down the track lol.
I normally wouldn't do this sort of thing but i am really stumped. Any help will really be appreciated
Thanks
First up, my current rig:
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 1333FSB OC'ed to 3.2ghz
Mobo - ASUS P5K
RAM - 2 x 1gb G.Skill CL4 DDR2 800mhz (PC2-6400) 4-4-3-4
HDD - Western Digital 320gb 7200rpm SATAII KS
VID - ATi Sapphire X800 GT 256mb
DVD Burner - ASUS DRW-1814BLT SATA
PSU - Thermaltake 430W
Keyboard - Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse - Logitech G5 Laser
Ok, i recently purchased a Silicon Image 3132 Raid5 PCI-X Controller and a Western Digital 400gb 7200rpm SATAII KS to go into my comp. So them in and hooked up both my hdd's to the controller. Booted up the comp, launched the raid controller menu, set both hdd's to raid0 64k (total 596gb) and rebooted the comp. Not a problem so far.
So i continued to install Windows XP Professional 32bit with SP2 onto an 80gig NTFS partition made with the windows installer. With windows installed i proceeded to install drivers, updates etc (involved rebooting the comp a few times). So after it was done with the basics i turned it off and went to bed. Woke up, used the comp for an hour or so, no dramas, turned it off. Got back from work 9 hours later, went to boot and while XP was in the loading screen with the bar near the bottom it would scroll across once and a bit then it will really slow down, so slow it'd take about 30 secs for it to do the next bar. I could get into safe mode, but that was it. Nothing else would work
So anyway after re-installing XP so many times, i tried xp x64. With xp x64 i never had any boot dramams, but after a while i couldnt install any new programs like Firefox or even my new ATi drivers. And i don't want to install Vista because i'm trying to build a gaming set up here lol.
So i tried eliminating a few things like taking off my overclocks, changing the ports thats the hdd's were plugged into, and a whole range of other things but still no go.
So i was wondering if anyone out there could help me out with my problem, i have installed XP so many times over the last week im just sick of it. But when it does work, the performance gain i have had has been pretty wicked. But i just can't get it to stay working lol. So at the moment i've got XP installed onto an old 80gig ide hdd i was able to find in the garage.
Oh and i know this is a lot of info in the one thread, but in my experience it's always better to detail everything first then trying to explain it and include forgotten things down the track lol.
I normally wouldn't do this sort of thing but i am really stumped. Any help will really be appreciated
Thanks
