Recent content by Hydrashok

i think i see part of the problem. i see in bios where you can choose the 'primary drive' but of course the problem is the new drive isn't formatted and setup w/ windows. now i have not been able to find my xp disk. soooo... is there anyway i can use this drive by just formatting it... or do...

hey guys finally got this thing up and running... kinda having hard drive setup problems... right now i'm running my os from 40 gb drive i have running from ide 1... although i'd like to use my new hard drive as the primary... a 160 gb sata II drive. i'm having trouble finding a 300...

sorry tx... haven't gotten that far yet.. although i hope someone answers ya because i feel like i'll be having the same problem damn u pc's w/ ur ide/sata/sata2/mb-gb ratio/windows and not having drivers for this right off the bat so all i have to do is just put it together and install...

well from looking around... it does look like there are sata 2 cables that support 300 mb/s instead of just the 150 mb/s but what i need to know is... if i go ahead and put this thing together.. and install the hard drive using a regular ole ata cable.. then go ahead and install win...

ok... after looking some more... answered my own question anyone interested... an explanation of sata and sata is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA still need to know about windows media center and whether i would have to reinstall windows if i installed the drive using...

:confused: went to radio shack looking for a sata cable. they did have them.. but they all said 150 mb per second. now... i'm pretty sure my regular eide will run it at 150mb per second. now 150 mb/s isn't the same as 1.5Gb/s right?? either way... i need to see about finding the...

hey thanks guys.... i'll have to give that a shot today... after i run to radioshack for a sata cable. btw i assume i'm looking for a sata 3.0 gb cable as opposed to a 1.5? i also assume that if i have trouble w/ sata 2.. i'll still be able to use the same cable for regular sata 1? and a...

nice. so... i'm gonna have to install windows first before i install those drivers won't i? they look like win32 programs ... or will i be able to install them thru dos? i'm worried that it won't let my sata hard drive install windows w/o that sata driver installed... but i'm worried i...

lol ya same link... but it's broken if you click it :) -so i just went thru and downloaded all the drivers for 64 chip... can they only be run thru windows? and should i download the dos or win ver. of bios? i'm guessing dos w/ a bootable cd.. also... any idea which bios i...

ok... damn that's alot of drivers :) now what i'm doing is this i bought a 160 gb hitachi sata drive that i believe will run in sata 2... so i wanna give that a try. i'm gonna be putting that in right away in master... so no os preinstalled, which i understand is a good idea anyway...

hey thanks alot guys i'll take a look at those :)

just bought this board on newegg oem... which i didn't know meant... you don't get any damn thing with it.. haven't tried to put it together yet... probably tonight but w/o driver cd i'm worried... already have to run out to radio shack to buy a sata cable for my hd... but i'd really like some...

just bought this board on newegg oem... which i didn't know meant... you don't get any damn thing with it.. haven't tried to put it together yet... probably tonight but w/o driver cd i'm worried... already have to run out to radio shack to buy a sata cable for my hd... but i'd really like some...

i really appreciate all the input... for anyone who's interested i ended up purchasing the following power supply -Fortron FSP 400 watt dual sata plugs + pci express http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104953 processor -Athlon 3000 Venice 939...

awesome thanx... pretty sure i'm going w/ the fortron 400 watt.. simply because of the dual sata plugs and pci-e that i won't have to buy converters for because i keep seeing bad reviews for those things. still in need of a cheap cheap case... or to cut some spending from these other parts....