Spinnin' Wheels

[GHOST]

HELLO FREE DC,

I HAVE BEEN FOLDING HERE OR AT FOLD@HOME SINCE I GOT MY FIRST COMPUTER A YEAR AGO. MY RANK WAS STAGNANT OR SLIPPING SO I DECIDED TO ADD A MACHINE. I HAVE BEEN READING YOUR FORUM THE LAST MONTH.
MY FIRST BOX IS A DELL P4 1.6. I PUT TOGETHER AN ASUS A7N8X W/ XP 2500+ AND A MAXTOR PLUS 9. TO GET NEW MACHINE RUNNING I USED OEM WINDOWS XP FROM DELL MACHINE. WORKED OK UNTIL I DOWNLOADED A DRIVER PACK FOR NFORCE II FROM NVIDIA. CRASH. I CAN NOT BOOT FROM ANYTHING ON NEW MACHINE. POWER ON SELF TEST GOES OK BUT WHEN IT TRIES TO BOOT I GET 'NTLDR IS MISSING'

I TRIED REFORMATTING HD BUT COULD NOT DO IT FROM THIS MACHINE. I PUT HD IN DELL AND REFORMATTED. PUT IT BACK IN NEW BOX BUT STILL GET NTLDR IS MISSING. I PUT NTLDR ,NTDETECT, AND BOOT.INI.BACKUP ON A FLOPPY AND ON A CD, PER A FORUM AT ANOTHER SITE, TRIED TO START WITH THOSE -NOTHING.


I HAVE RESET CMOS, PLAYED WITH BOOT ORDER OF DRIVES,... CAN SOMEONE HELP ME GET THIS SYSTEM RUNNING? THANK YOU

[IronBits]

You need to create an 8GB partition on the HDD, make sure it is active, then install win2k again.
I'm assuming you can boot from CD to install yes?
Welcome to the team

[GHOST]

THANKS FOR THE REPLY AND WELCOME.

GOT SYSTEM RUNNING. THINK 'NTLDR LOADER IS MISSING 'HAD TO DO WITH NTFS FORMAT. USED A SMALLER HARD DRIVE AND FORMATTED IN FAT32 AND WAS ABLE TO INSTALL OS/ WINXP.

NOTE TO WINDOW XP USERS- I HAVE REFORMATTED DRIVES DUE TO VIRUS, ETC. AND REINSTALLED XP, BUT THERE IS A LIMIT. WHEN I TRIED TO ACTIVATE XP THIS TIME I WAS TOLD MY ALLOTTED NUMBER OF INSTALLS WAS UP.

[Anarchy99]

me and my roomie reformat all the time and he loves XP pro

just call microshaft and you get 5 more tries with a new key

that is why I will not buy XP, EVER

I love my 2K

[GHOST]

THANKS FOR THE TIP ANARCHY99.

YOU ARE RUNNING A A7N8X W/ 2500+ ARE'T YOU? I AM NOT GOING TO TRY MODDING MY CHIP FOR AWHILE. IF I SET MY BIOS TO OPTIMAL I ONLY GET 1.1 Ghz. IF I SET TO AGGRESSIVE I GET 1.47Ghz. FAR FROM 1.87 I EXPECTED.

[Anarchy99]

ghost

I have A7N8X with a XP 2400+ in it

you need to set the FSB at 166 and then set the multiplier and you will be much happier with your output

mine is picked up as a 2700+ running at 2162mhz

I have my settings at aggressive

and it has run stable since day 1

I had it running at 169 FSB with a 13 multiplier and it ran at 2210mhz but the client locked up on me to much

any help I can offer let me know

A99

[IronBits]

Originally posted by GHOST
THANKS FOR THE TIP ANARCHY99.

YOU ARE RUNNING A A7N8X W/ 2500+ ARE'T YOU? I AM NOT GOING TO TRY MODDING MY CHIP FOR AWHILE. IF I SET MY BIOS TO OPTIMAL I ONLY GET 1.1 Ghz. IF I SET TO AGGRESSIVE I GET 1.47Ghz. FAR FROM 1.87 I EXPECTED.

There is a jumper between the big tall heat sink and parallel port, make sure it is on the 2 of the 3 pins that places it closest to the CPU.

[GHOST]

FOUND THE PROBLEM THAT WAS SLOWING ME DOWN. IN BIOS I HAD SET FOR "HALT ON ALL ERRORS" , DISABLED THAT AND I CAN SPEED THINGS UP.

NOW WE'RE COOKIN WITH GAS!