LA_MERC_eX1|eS' ch1|d
November 3rd, 2005, 05:27 PM
I built a computer for my neighbor, ASUS K8S-MX, 2800 Clawhammer, 2x256 Corsair ValueSelect RAM, 2 SATA Seagate Barracuda hard drives.
Intially I had a RAID setup with the drives, but I noticed some odd behavior with the computer. Slow running, not loading all the programs in the system tray. So I reformatted and reinstalled everything and it worked fine upon the first start. But after I downloaded and installed some updates it started the same thing as before. So I thought my RAID was screwed and I turned off the RAID and tried to use the computer like normal with 2 seperate drives. Wouldn't boot, so I formatted the drives again and didn't turn the RAID on. But when I got to the install section to install Windows it said that it couldn't detect and hard disk drives and to check connections and use any disks that came with the drives. Well the drives are OEM so no disks, only thing on the disk that came with the mobo is RAID drivers.
So Onji told me to take the battery out of the mobo to reset the CMOS. Same result so he had me flash the bios with the newest bios but I'm still stuck at the same spot, Windows won't recognize the hard drives. I see in the POST that it detects the drives. I've tried all the hard drive connections 2 or 3 times, tried both of the SATA ports on the mobo, 1 hard drive at a time, and today I tried the RAM modules 1 at a time. All with the same result, Windows doesn't regcognize the drives.
I'm at a total loss of what to do, I've built 2 other computers, reformatted 6 or 7 computers. But this doesn't make sense to me especially because it has already recognized the drives on 2 previous installs with no dificulty.
Like I told Onji yesterday, I'm to the point where I want to dropkick the thing off a building. Not to mention I look like an a$$ to my neighbors because I told them I could build them a computer and now it's been like 2 weeks of problems with them still not having their computer.
Help me....
Please
Intially I had a RAID setup with the drives, but I noticed some odd behavior with the computer. Slow running, not loading all the programs in the system tray. So I reformatted and reinstalled everything and it worked fine upon the first start. But after I downloaded and installed some updates it started the same thing as before. So I thought my RAID was screwed and I turned off the RAID and tried to use the computer like normal with 2 seperate drives. Wouldn't boot, so I formatted the drives again and didn't turn the RAID on. But when I got to the install section to install Windows it said that it couldn't detect and hard disk drives and to check connections and use any disks that came with the drives. Well the drives are OEM so no disks, only thing on the disk that came with the mobo is RAID drivers.
So Onji told me to take the battery out of the mobo to reset the CMOS. Same result so he had me flash the bios with the newest bios but I'm still stuck at the same spot, Windows won't recognize the hard drives. I see in the POST that it detects the drives. I've tried all the hard drive connections 2 or 3 times, tried both of the SATA ports on the mobo, 1 hard drive at a time, and today I tried the RAM modules 1 at a time. All with the same result, Windows doesn't regcognize the drives.
I'm at a total loss of what to do, I've built 2 other computers, reformatted 6 or 7 computers. But this doesn't make sense to me especially because it has already recognized the drives on 2 previous installs with no dificulty.
Like I told Onji yesterday, I'm to the point where I want to dropkick the thing off a building. Not to mention I look like an a$$ to my neighbors because I told them I could build them a computer and now it's been like 2 weeks of problems with them still not having their computer.
Help me....
Please