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mobo, agp card, mem..the whole kit and kaboodle
if you don't hear from me in a few days assume I've been zapped by god knows how many volts, and have a nice memorial for me too
ttfn!
just about to plug all my new kit in...
mobo, agp card, mem..the whole kit and kaboodle
if you don't hear from me in a few days assume I've been zapped by god knows how many volts, and have a nice memorial for me too
ttfn!
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Don't put everything in at once. Then if something goes REALLY wrong, you don't take EVERYTHING with it.
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Good luck... - do the mods have contact details for your next of kin?
well its all plugged in but I'm still using this win98 computer cause there are some - potentially RMA'able - problems *sigh*
First of all my Tagan 'the power of silence' 420w PSU isnt that silent, in fact there's a very clear and audible click-click-click-click-click (...i'd say at about 10 times a second) so its not silent, in fact sounds a bit like those cricket insects you get, annoying. and i'm guessing it shouldn't sound like this... and I'm upset cause it ain't cheap!
Secondly my 160gb Seagate 'cuda isn't 160gb apparently, having installed windowsxp it comes up as only 10gbso its a reformat, repartition and try yet again...grrr...
I didn't even get as fas as installing all the nforce drivers and forceware's...
oh, and I'm still alive - thanks for the concern
Last edited by shiato storm; 29-01-2005 at 12:41 AM.
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If you install sp1/2 for xp you will get all your HDD space back. You can also use the drive manufactureers own utiliy.
SO your drive is probably OK!
The ticking in the PSU is quite common in the tagans IIRC, so yes it is potentially an RMA
Good luck!
be carefull it doesnt go tick tick big blue flash bang!
but id deffinitely get it RMA'd
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Martin "Whats a Wan ton?"
Lee "About 1000 kilo's"
well, i'm now up and running
drive c: 9.76
Drive d: 118
total = near enough 130gb...
eh, wtf?
i've done sp2, and still fubar
uh oh, you reckon tagan is a dud?
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id say the tagans a return have u tried the latest bios for your board or at least looking in the descriptions for the bios updates to see if there are any fixes for drive capacity? does it detect in the motherboards bios or raid bios as full capacity i think u said 160gb?Originally Posted by shiato storm
well, i'm now up and running
drive c: 9.76
Drive d: 118
total = near enough 130gb...
eh, wtf?
i've done sp2, and still fubar
uh oh, you reckon tagan is a dud?
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Martin "Whats a Wan ton?"
Lee "About 1000 kilo's"
well, its an MSI neo2, 939 (3000+), I'd have thought 160gb is well within its range...
could I have got a 120gb do you think? total drive capacity is 127gb... not unrealistic to imagine its nearly 120...
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well, its an MSI neo2, 939 (3000+), I'd have thought 160gb is well within its range...
could I have got a 120gb do you think? total drive capacity is 127gb... not unrealistic to imagine its nearly 120...
i was thinking not in the fact the bios might not handle a 160 or higher just that the 160 may have had issues with the initial bios release.
Which 939 neo 2 do you have btw?
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VIA® K8T800 Pro
K8T Neo2-FIR
K8T Neo2-F
nVidia
nVIDIA® nForce3 Ultra
K8N Neo2 Platinum
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Martin "Whats a Wan ton?"
Lee "About 1000 kilo's"
hmmm. well unlikely. i;ve seen it used in other people's sigs else where...
so, looks like a complete RMA job then, hdd, PSU...
for F*'s sake...what a pain in the *rse. after all that delay at scan and now this...really ticks me off. they didn't have the right gfx card originally so had to get a different one and the mobo wasn't in stock when delivery date came round (was in stock when I ordered, went out of stock between delivery and ordering...annoying!)
edit:
its a K8 Neo2 Platinum nforce3 Ultra... why?
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sorry u posted whilst i was editing was it the K8n or the K8t neo 2 you have?
was having a look at the bios releases purely out of curiosity no mention of hard drive fixes just a sata fix when resuming.
does it detect in your motherboard bios or sata raid bios as the correct size? i.e is it only windows that mis reads the size
also have you tried the diagnostics tool from seagate for there hard drives?
its on there website
Last edited by JohnS; 29-01-2005 at 01:36 AM.
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Martin "Whats a Wan ton?"
Lee "About 1000 kilo's"
oh, sorry - the K8N - cause its the nForce not via chipset
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p.s. I'll just check the bios now...!
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oh, sorry - the K8N - cause its the nForce not via chipset
i must admit i like the nforce chipsets they get me all fuzzy
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Martin "Whats a Wan ton?"
Lee "About 1000 kilo's"
nope, bios all sweet, says 160gb...sodding windows! screwing me out of a good 30GB here! thats more than I have on my other computer!
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