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El Tel · 25th January 2005, 10:17

Just done a major upgrade for my pc.

Athlon 2.8
Seagate 120 Gb SATA 7200 HDD
Asus A7V880 Mobo
1G 400 Ram
Nvidia GeForce 5900

The main problem I had was that the SATA HDD is not recognised by fornicating Windows XP. Can you bloody believe it?
I had to copy the SATA drivers from the mobo cd to a bloody floppy (A floppy Microsoft? Come on, it's 2005 for fornicates sakes) and F6 install on Windows set-up.

Once done , the SATA disk is very fast.
XP took only 15 minutes to install!

Now, upon installing the drivers for my soundcard, the pc freezes leading to a reset and then wont boot up again.

I get the

'Start Windows in Safe Mode'
'Start Using Previous Good Configuration'
'Start Windows Normally'

screen that just opens again on restart regardless of which option I choose.

Reformat I guess!!

Goddamn Microsoft are a bunch of fornicated-up floopy-disk using nerds.

Anyone else had this problem?

If you're upgrading to a SATA HDD, take note.

25th January 2005, 10:17	#1 (permalink)
El Tel El Tel is..... Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,518 vCash: 50 Rep Power: 49	SATA HDD & Windows XP. Just done a major upgrade for my pc. Athlon 2.8 Seagate 120 Gb SATA 7200 HDD Asus A7V880 Mobo 1G 400 Ram Nvidia GeForce 5900 The main problem I had was that the SATA HDD is not recognised by fornicating Windows XP. Can you bloody believe it? I had to copy the SATA drivers from the mobo cd to a bloody floppy (A floppy Microsoft? Come on, it's 2005 for fornicates sakes) and F6 install on Windows set-up. Once done , the SATA disk is very fast. XP took only 15 minutes to install! Now, upon installing the drivers for my soundcard, the pc freezes leading to a reset and then wont boot up again. I get the 'Start Windows in Safe Mode' 'Start Using Previous Good Configuration' 'Start Windows Normally' screen that just opens again on restart regardless of which option I choose. Reformat I guess!! Goddamn Microsoft are a bunch of fornicated-up floopy-disk using nerds. Anyone else had this problem? If you're upgrading to a SATA HDD, take note.