Recent content by pris0n

Well, folks, turns out the SATA HD I started with died on me, so I'm RMAing that and I have a brand new 1TB WD Caviar Black installed. Everything runs great and it's lightning fast. It's a major improvement coming from an AMD AthlonXP 1800+ and a Ti 4200. :laugh: Thanks for all the responses!

I could only find an old IDE HD (man old hard drives are LOUD), so I can't really test to see if the motherboard's SATA controller is bad or if it was the SATA HD. So far, the old IDE HD got further than the SATA HD, as it's at the second XP installation screen (the SATA HD would cycle...

SATA-IDE

Well it seems to be booting fine. Now I'm faced with another problem: Windows Vista does not recognize my SATA hard drive and doesn't give me an option to install Vista anywhere. I have a 250 gig WD that I pulled from my old computer. I'm new with Vista, so this could possibly be a stupid...

Everything is stock and brand new.

The card requires more than 34 amps? http://www.techaddicts.net/reviews/ant_ea500w/ant_ea6.jpg

It's an Earthwatts 500 PSU. It came with the Antec Designer case I purchased.

I just checked and made sure all the screw pins were lined up correctly. Everything went in smoothly. Though the PC did just start up after I moved it around a bit, so I would suspect that something is being shorted out.

Hello, I recently put together a new computer and sometimes it doesn't start. When it doesn't start, the video card has these red lights that will flash. I press the power button and the computer starts for 1/10th of a second, the red lights flash on the video card, and then it shuts down...