±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: cgsimpson
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6645

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 737
Total: 737
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Downloads
02: Community Forums
03: Community Forums
04: Community Forums
05: Downloads
06: Community Forums
07: Photo Gallery
08: Community Forums
09: Home
10: Community Forums
11: Community Forums
12: Community Forums
13: Home
14: Community Forums
15: Community Forums
16: Community Forums
17: Community Forums
18: Community Forums
19: Community Forums
20: Community Forums
21: Photo Gallery
22: Community Forums
23: Community Forums
24: Community Forums
25: Community Forums
26: Community Forums
27: Community Forums
28: Downloads
29: Photo Gallery
30: Home
31: Community Forums
32: Community Forums
33: Community Forums
34: Community Forums
35: Community Forums
36: Community Forums
37: Community Forums
38: Photo Gallery
39: Community Forums
40: Member Screenshots
41: Home
42: Community Forums
43: Community Forums
44: Community Forums
45: Community Forums
46: Community Forums
47: Downloads
48: Community Forums
49: Home
50: Photo Gallery
51: Photo Gallery
52: Home
53: Community Forums
54: Community Forums
55: Community Forums
56: Home
57: Community Forums
58: Community Forums
59: Community Forums
60: Downloads
61: Community Forums
62: Community Forums
63: Community Forums
64: Community Forums
65: Home
66: Photo Gallery
67: Community Forums
68: Your Account
69: Photo Gallery
70: Photo Gallery
71: Community Forums
72: Community Forums
73: Community Forums
74: Community Forums
75: Community Forums
76: Community Forums
77: Community Forums
78: Your Account
79: CPGlang
80: Community Forums
81: Community Forums
82: Photo Gallery
83: Community Forums
84: Community Forums
85: Downloads
86: Community Forums
87: Community Forums
88: Community Forums
89: Community Forums
90: Photo Gallery
91: Community Forums
92: Photo Gallery
93: Photo Gallery
94: Community Forums
95: Community Forums
96: Photo Gallery
97: Community Forums
98: Community Forums
99: Community Forums
100: Community Forums
101: Home
102: Home
103: Community Forums
104: Community Forums
105: Home
106: Community Forums
107: Community Forums
108: Photo Gallery
109: Community Forums
110: Community Forums
111: Community Forums
112: Photo Gallery
113: Community Forums
114: Photo Gallery
115: Community Forums
116: Home
117: Community Forums
118: Home
119: Photo Gallery
120: Community Forums
121: Community Forums
122: Community Forums
123: Photo Gallery
124: Photo Gallery
125: Your Account
126: Community Forums
127: Community Forums
128: Community Forums
129: Community Forums
130: Downloads
131: Community Forums
132: Community Forums
133: Community Forums
134: Community Forums
135: Home
136: Community Forums
137: Community Forums
138: Community Forums
139: Community Forums
140: Community Forums
141: Community Forums
142: Community Forums
143: Community Forums
144: Community Forums
145: Community Forums
146: Photo Gallery
147: Photo Gallery
148: Community Forums
149: Community Forums
150: Community Forums
151: Community Forums
152: Community Forums
153: Photo Gallery
154: Community Forums
155: Photo Gallery
156: Home
157: Community Forums
158: Photo Gallery
159: Home
160: News Archive
161: Community Forums
162: Photo Gallery
163: Community Forums
164: Photo Gallery
165: Community Forums
166: Community Forums
167: Community Forums
168: Photo Gallery
169: Photo Gallery
170: Community Forums
171: Photo Gallery
172: Community Forums
173: Downloads
174: Community Forums
175: Community Forums
176: Home
177: Photo Gallery
178: Community Forums
179: Photo Gallery
180: Home
181: Community Forums
182: Photo Gallery
183: Home
184: Community Forums
185: Community Forums
186: Home
187: Community Forums
188: Community Forums
189: Community Forums
190: Community Forums
191: Photo Gallery
192: Community Forums
193: Community Forums
194: Photo Gallery
195: Downloads
196: Community Forums
197: Community Forums
198: Photo Gallery
199: Community Forums
200: Community Forums
201: Community Forums
202: News Archive
203: Community Forums
204: Community Forums
205: Community Forums
206: Photo Gallery
207: Community Forums
208: Downloads
209: Community Forums
210: Home
211: Photo Gallery
212: Photo Gallery
213: Photo Gallery
214: Photo Gallery
215: Community Forums
216: Community Forums
217: Community Forums
218: Photo Gallery
219: Home
220: Community Forums
221: Community Forums
222: Community Forums
223: Community Forums
224: Community Forums
225: Community Forums
226: Community Forums
227: Photo Gallery
228: Photo Gallery
229: Your Account
230: Photo Gallery
231: Photo Gallery
232: Home
233: Community Forums
234: Photo Gallery
235: Downloads
236: Statistics
237: Member Screenshots
238: Community Forums
239: Community Forums
240: Home
241: Community Forums
242: Community Forums
243: Community Forums
244: CPGlang
245: Community Forums
246: Community Forums
247: Community Forums
248: Community Forums
249: Community Forums
250: Downloads
251: Community Forums
252: Home
253: Community Forums
254: Community Forums
255: Community Forums
256: Community Forums
257: Community Forums
258: Home
259: Downloads
260: Photo Gallery
261: Community Forums
262: Community Forums
263: Community Forums
264: Community Forums
265: Home
266: Community Forums
267: CPGlang
268: Photo Gallery
269: Community Forums
270: Photo Gallery
271: Community Forums
272: Community Forums
273: Community Forums
274: Your Account
275: Photo Gallery
276: Community Forums
277: Community Forums
278: Community Forums
279: Community Forums
280: Community Forums
281: Downloads
282: CPGlang
283: Community Forums
284: Community Forums
285: Photo Gallery
286: Community Forums
287: Community Forums
288: Community Forums
289: Community Forums
290: Home
291: Your Account
292: Community Forums
293: Home
294: Member Screenshots
295: Photo Gallery
296: Community Forums
297: Home
298: Community Forums
299: Photo Gallery
300: Community Forums
301: Community Forums
302: Photo Gallery
303: Community Forums
304: Community Forums
305: Community Forums
306: Community Forums
307: Downloads
308: Community Forums
309: Search
310: Photo Gallery
311: Photo Gallery
312: Community Forums
313: Community Forums
314: Home
315: Community Forums
316: Community Forums
317: Photo Gallery
318: Community Forums
319: Community Forums
320: Community Forums
321: Community Forums
322: Community Forums
323: Community Forums
324: Community Forums
325: Community Forums
326: Community Forums
327: Photo Gallery
328: Photo Gallery
329: Home
330: Community Forums
331: Community Forums
332: Member Screenshots
333: Photo Gallery
334: Community Forums
335: Community Forums
336: Community Forums
337: Photo Gallery
338: Community Forums
339: Downloads
340: Community Forums
341: Community Forums
342: Community Forums
343: Member Screenshots
344: Photo Gallery
345: Photo Gallery
346: Photo Gallery
347: Community Forums
348: Home
349: Community Forums
350: Community Forums
351: Community Forums
352: Community Forums
353: Community Forums
354: Community Forums
355: Community Forums
356: Community Forums
357: Community Forums
358: Community Forums
359: Home
360: Home
361: Community Forums
362: Community Forums
363: Photo Gallery
364: Downloads
365: Community Forums
366: Photo Gallery
367: Home
368: Community Forums
369: Community Forums
370: Home
371: Community Forums
372: Downloads
373: Community Forums
374: Community Forums
375: Community Forums
376: Community Forums
377: Community Forums
378: Community Forums
379: Community Forums
380: Community Forums
381: Community Forums
382: Photo Gallery
383: Community Forums
384: Community Forums
385: Community Forums
386: Community Forums
387: Community Forums
388: Photo Gallery
389: Community Forums
390: Photo Gallery
391: Community Forums
392: Community Forums
393: Community Forums
394: Community Forums
395: Community Forums
396: Community Forums
397: Home
398: Community Forums
399: Community Forums
400: Photo Gallery
401: Home
402: Community Forums
403: Community Forums
404: Community Forums
405: Photo Gallery
406: Home
407: Home
408: Community Forums
409: Downloads
410: Community Forums
411: CPGlang
412: Community Forums
413: Community Forums
414: Community Forums
415: Community Forums
416: Photo Gallery
417: CPGlang
418: Community Forums
419: Community Forums
420: Your Account
421: Downloads
422: Community Forums
423: Community Forums
424: Community Forums
425: Community Forums
426: Community Forums
427: Home
428: Home
429: Community Forums
430: Community Forums
431: Photo Gallery
432: Community Forums
433: Community Forums
434: News
435: Community Forums
436: Photo Gallery
437: Community Forums
438: Community Forums
439: Photo Gallery
440: Community Forums
441: Community Forums
442: Community Forums
443: Community Forums
444: Community Forums
445: Photo Gallery
446: Community Forums
447: Community Forums
448: Community Forums
449: Community Forums
450: Home
451: Photo Gallery
452: Community Forums
453: Home
454: Community Forums
455: Community Forums
456: Community Forums
457: Home
458: Community Forums
459: Photo Gallery
460: Community Forums
461: Photo Gallery
462: Your Account
463: Your Account
464: Community Forums
465: Community Forums
466: Community Forums
467: Community Forums
468: Community Forums
469: Community Forums
470: Community Forums
471: Community Forums
472: Community Forums
473: Community Forums
474: Home
475: Community Forums
476: Community Forums
477: Tell a Friend
478: Community Forums
479: Downloads
480: Community Forums
481: Community Forums
482: Community Forums
483: Community Forums
484: Community Forums
485: Community Forums
486: Your Account
487: Community Forums
488: Photo Gallery
489: Community Forums
490: Community Forums
491: Photo Gallery
492: Home
493: Statistics
494: Community Forums
495: Downloads
496: Community Forums
497: Community Forums
498: Community Forums
499: Community Forums
500: Home
501: Photo Gallery
502: Community Forums
503: Community Forums
504: Community Forums
505: Community Forums
506: Community Forums
507: Community Forums
508: Community Forums
509: Community Forums
510: Community Forums
511: Home
512: Photo Gallery
513: Community Forums
514: Community Forums
515: Home
516: Community Forums
517: Community Forums
518: Community Forums
519: Community Forums
520: Community Forums
521: Photo Gallery
522: Home
523: Community Forums
524: Community Forums
525: Photo Gallery
526: Home
527: Community Forums
528: Community Forums
529: Community Forums
530: Community Forums
531: Home
532: Community Forums
533: Community Forums
534: Community Forums
535: Home
536: Community Forums
537: Community Forums
538: Community Forums
539: Community Forums
540: Community Forums
541: Downloads
542: Community Forums
543: Statistics
544: Home
545: Community Forums
546: Community Forums
547: Community Forums
548: Photo Gallery
549: Community Forums
550: Community Forums
551: Community Forums
552: Community Forums
553: Community Forums
554: Photo Gallery
555: Home
556: Community Forums
557: Photo Gallery
558: Community Forums
559: Community Forums
560: Photo Gallery
561: Home
562: Community Forums
563: Community Forums
564: Community Forums
565: Home
566: Community Forums
567: Community Forums
568: Community Forums
569: Community Forums
570: Community Forums
571: Community Forums
572: Community Forums
573: Photo Gallery
574: CPGlang
575: Community Forums
576: Community Forums
577: Community Forums
578: Community Forums
579: Home
580: Community Forums
581: Community Forums
582: Photo Gallery
583: Home
584: Community Forums
585: Community Forums
586: Community Forums
587: Community Forums
588: Community Forums
589: Community Forums
590: Community Forums
591: Community Forums
592: Community Forums
593: Home
594: Photo Gallery
595: Downloads
596: Photo Gallery
597: Community Forums
598: Community Forums
599: Photo Gallery
600: Community Forums
601: Your Account
602: Community Forums
603: Community Forums
604: Community Forums
605: Photo Gallery
606: Community Forums
607: Community Forums
608: Community Forums
609: CPGlang
610: Your Account
611: Community Forums
612: Community Forums
613: Photo Gallery
614: Photo Gallery
615: Community Forums
616: Community Forums
617: Home
618: Community Forums
619: Downloads
620: Home
621: Community Forums
622: Community Forums
623: Community Forums
624: Downloads
625: News Archive
626: Community Forums
627: Photo Gallery
628: Member Screenshots
629: Community Forums
630: Community Forums
631: Photo Gallery
632: Community Forums
633: Home
634: Community Forums
635: Community Forums
636: Home
637: Community Forums
638: Home
639: Photo Gallery
640: Community Forums
641: Photo Gallery
642: Photo Gallery
643: Community Forums
644: Photo Gallery
645: Photo Gallery
646: Community Forums
647: Community Forums
648: Home
649: Community Forums
650: Member Screenshots
651: Community Forums
652: Community Forums
653: Community Forums
654: Photo Gallery
655: Community Forums
656: Home
657: Community Forums
658: Community Forums
659: News Archive
660: Community Forums
661: Home
662: Member Screenshots
663: Home
664: Community Forums
665: Community Forums
666: Community Forums
667: Photo Gallery
668: Community Forums
669: Photo Gallery
670: Community Forums
671: Community Forums
672: Home
673: Community Forums
674: CPGlang
675: Your Account
676: Community Forums
677: Photo Gallery
678: Community Forums
679: Community Forums
680: Community Forums
681: Community Forums
682: Statistics
683: Member Screenshots
684: CPGlang
685: Community Forums
686: Home
687: Community Forums
688: Community Forums
689: Photo Gallery
690: Community Forums
691: Downloads
692: Home
693: Photo Gallery
694: Community Forums
695: Photo Gallery
696: Community Forums
697: Home
698: Community Forums
699: Home
700: Community Forums
701: Community Forums
702: Community Forums
703: Community Forums
704: Community Forums
705: Home
706: Supporters
707: Community Forums
708: Home
709: Community Forums
710: Photo Gallery
711: Community Forums
712: Photo Gallery
713: Photo Gallery
714: Community Forums
715: Community Forums
716: Community Forums
717: Photo Gallery
718: Community Forums
719: Downloads
720: Community Forums
721: Community Forums
722: Community Forums
723: Community Forums
724: Your Account
725: Community Forums
726: Community Forums
727: Community Forums
728: Community Forums
729: Home
730: Home
731: Community Forums
732: Community Forums
733: Home
734: Community Forums
735: Community Forums
736: Community Forums
737: Photo Gallery

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
Ram and Xp :: Archived
Resolve issues with your computer problems here or read about the latest computer parts and information.
Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  Hardware

Topic Archived View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Shadow_Homfixr
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 541
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL-USA
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:01 am
Post subject: Ram and Xp

I currently have 2 gigs of DDR2 6400 800mhz ram installed in my MSI K9N Diamond MB that supports up to 8gigs of ram.

www.msicomputer.com/pr...d&class=mb

I was thinking of max'n out to 8 gigs but reading down the page it said XP would only recognize 4 gigs. Is this true and would I be wast'n money on 8? 4 would double what I have and would be no complaints but......MORE POWER arrrrrh arrrh aarrrhhh as the tool man would say Laughing .

RAM:

www.tigerdirect.com/ap...CatId=3412

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7015
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:13 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Yep, that's true Homey... Wink

You might want to start thinking about that new 'SUPER' 'puter soon..
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6473
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:57 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Won't even recognise that Homey.
XP (32-bit) is limited to about 3.25Gb

You want to be thinking in terms of a 64-bit behemoth if you wanna use up all them cheap Korean chips.

Wink

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
Shadow_Homfixr
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 541
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL-USA
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:26 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Thnx!

Next question then....I have an AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ processor on this mobo and if I upgraded to XP 64 Pro then would it all be worth it? I have heard in the past that there are a few things that don't work well in the 64 XP. Is this still true? If so please list some of the limitations of 64 Xp Pro. I mostly use this machine for gaming and working in MS office for my business. All help is greatly appreciated!!

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7015
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:27 am
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Well, at this point in time, I think running a max of 3gig ram on the setup you have should do. I haven't heard that many good things when mixing 64 bit with older games.

Of course, you can also dual boot... Smile
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6473
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:28 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Yeah ditto whut Bushy said.
You'd have to be running a helluva game to warrant the extra.
If you're sticking with Windows, version 7 (Vista 2) is expected out late part of next year.
I would suggest hanging on to see what the initial reports of that are.
If it supports the software and hardware you want, and no-one's reporting the same kind of suckage that I'm having with version 1, it might be worth looking into the 64bit version then.
I would suggest that hardware components will be stupid cheap by then as well, especially anything from Korea (if it isn't bankrupt by then).

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
Shadow_Homfixr
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 541
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL-USA
PostPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:57 am
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Thnx !!! 3 gigs it is then Smile .

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Shadow_Homfixr
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 541
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL-USA
PostPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:12 am
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Ok next 2 questions now that last one is solved Laughing . I have 2 250 gig sata hard drives in this machine and XP only sees one of them...why?

I did not set up any raid that I'm aware of I just let XP do it's thing when I first did this build almost 2 years ago. I may be wrong but I thought at the time as now that it would set up a raid 0 if I didn't do anything or tell it to set up anything different at the beginning.

I would like to take advantage of the 2nd HD as a backup drive or just more storage. I feel like a complete reformat is com'n soon as every now and then I'm gett'n error messages when I reboot such as the driver for the sound card didn't load right or the AVG tray didn't load right so I have to reboot again and that usually fixes that. Maybe I need to set a raid 1 or something when I do reformat or is there a way to use the 2nd HD without reformat'n?

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7015
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:13 am
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

1) Make sure it's installed correctly in the machine, (power cable, SATA cable,) then...

2) Make sure it's recognized in the BIOS setup.

All hardware has to be recognized at the BIOS level prior to 'handing it off' to the Operating System (OS).

To reformat the 2nd drive once it's 'seen' in XP, open "My Computer", right click the drives icon and choose format. Wink
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shadow_Homfixr
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 541
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL-USA
PostPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:30 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Thnx.... I'll look at it and let ya'll know if it gets seen.

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Shadow_Homfixr
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 541
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL-USA
PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:51 am
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Ok looked in BIOS and it did not see the second HD and figured some was unplugged. I decided to do my bi monthly cleaning while inside and found that the sata cable going to the 2nd hd was broken on the end and was not connected. I replaced the cable and rebooted and the BIOS did see the second hd. I did not mess with anything in the BIOS at this time and let the machine boot up. I went to MY Comp and XP still did not see the second hd. I rebooted back into BIOS and found that the sata raid setting was set to disable. Not really knowing what to do I enabled this and the puter would not boot. I had to pull the cmos battery to reset( didn't see the reset button at that time...lol) and went back in BIOS and figured out when I enable this option,6 the BIOS loses the hard drives? Neither one of the hds were found in the boot sequence. Had to reset the cmos again. OK I'm in need of some school'n on the BIOS...lol. That has to be the problem right?

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7015
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:42 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Go back into BIOS and find out why the Drives aren't being seen such SATA isn't enabled by default or "AUTO" isn't set to detect HD's. Leave RAID alone, then...

Check the boot sequence and make sure the HD your have your OS on it the primary boot HD. It could be once the BIOS 'seen' the second drive, it put it as primary boot and there's no Boot Record on that drive.
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Kitform
Bar Maid

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 22, 2005
Posts: 2011
Location: Cleveland. UK.
PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:11 am
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

- Shadow_Homfixr
I have 2 250 gig sata hard drives in this machine and XP only sees one of them...why?


First, make sure you have disabled Raid in the bios, you don't need it unless your running a raid system and you will only see one drive,

With raid off and the drive identified in the bios, boot into windows, if you can't see the second drive, I would suspect it's either not formatted or has a corrupt mbr.

It's unusual to have an unformatted hard drive these days unless you do it yourself by deleting the partition table, normally this occurs when your installing windows. Smile

Anyhoo, go to admin tools, select computer management, in the left window at the bottom select disk management and you should be able to see your second drive listed, with unallocated space.

Click the drive and format it, then it should show in windows as normal.

Word of caution Murp...err, Homey, format the correct drive, not your C: drive (Listed as Sata 0) IIRC.
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shadow_Homfixr
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 541
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL-USA
PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:21 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

Thnx Kit and all I now see and can use my 2nd hd Mr. Green Laughing !

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7015
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:57 pm
Post subject: Re: Ram and Xp

More space to store more stuff...lol Glad you got it working!!
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  Hardware
Page 1 of 3
All times are GMT - 6 Hours
Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here.
Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum.
The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.