Posted by admin on June 17, 2011
Q: I have the following system up and running under Fedora Core 4 for one month and now it worked fine, but I want to install Windows XP Pro on it.
Specs:
Asus A8N-CSM
Athon 64 3500 GB
1 PC3200
Arec ARC 1210 PCI-E RAID Seagate 7200.10 card
4×320GB into RAID 5
When I try to install XP Pro I get the first installation is examining your hardware message and then the screen just goes black. Ive tried this with SP1 and I SP2.
For testing in
Posted by admin on January 3, 2011
Q: I have a Seagate 120GB HDD that I was looking to install Windows XP SP1a fast, a good way to optimally partition the disk?
I looked upon this way:
c: (boot-8-10GB)
d: (apps-20-25GB)
rd (storage space remaining)
Would to do the trick?
Ill also installing a Promise RAID card with 8MB cache Maxtor 2×80gb on the machine. 0.
Anything I might have missed or could improve?
Posted by admin on October 8, 2010
Q: Well for a crappy weekend worse (have I been sick the last two days) I think I just fried the mobo on my parents computer. I tried to assist them in getting an approved RAID card (another story) by moving to another PCI slot. from the corner of my eye I saw the CPU fan I think that move just a bit and I thought uh oh . and then by switching the HDDs s [in-up, fans go light on the motherboard and then, NOTHING! thats all i get to power the system. not a beep code or anything, just a black scre
Posted by admin on August 1, 2010
Q: Ive never had problems with my comp, until I upgrade to the HSF and installed a RAID card. Then my problems began. My system is stable at a slower MHz, but as stock speeds, chashes. My system will shut off and then restart, shutdown, reboot . You get the idea, when set at stock speeds.
Usually crashes at the login screen, but not always, sometimes after logging. I can not bluescree of death or something, if someone is unplug the computer. I would have a power problem, bad memory, whats
Posted by admin on July 10, 2010
Q: I have a Seagate 120GB HDD that I was looking to install Windows XP SP1a fast, a good way to optimally partition the disk?
I looked upon this way:
c: (boot-8-10GB)
d: (apps-20-25GB)
rd (storage space remaining)
Would to do the trick?
Ill also installing a Promise RAID card with 8MB cache Maxtor 2×80gb on the machine. 0.
Anything I might have missed or could improve?