Oh, Biostar. Hate to say it, but that could be the problem there. I used to like Biostar, until I had a problem, and a guy at work told me about a problem he had. He had a newer drive, that did UDMA5. The problem is, the chipset didn't. It acted like it did, but he started losing data. I think he found a way to "clock" it down, so it didn't use UDMA5, and the problem was solved. The problem I had was the system would hang when playing a mid-level game (it was my wife's computer, and she liked to play Battleship). It turned out, it started when I put a better sound card in. I was told to install a newer 4-in-1 driver package on it. The problem was, I couldn't find that newer version on any of their websites. DIT (back when they were still good) gave me the newer driver package, and it seemed to fix the problem.
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 4, 2007 7:12 PM, Todd Walton <<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com" target="_blank">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Dec 3, 2007 3:54 PM, Tim Wilson <<a href="mailto:tim_linux@wilson-home.com" target="_blank">tim_linux@wilson-home.com</a>> wroteP:<br><div>> When I read that paragraph, I read it as the machine booted up if you
<br>> disconnected the IDE cable from the optical drive (that is the case in my<br>> scenario). However, after re-reading it (and seeing a lot of people<br>> thinking it's memory related), you could have meant that the drive powered
<br>> on, but the machine still didn't boot. If the former is the case, then I<br>> don't think it is memory related. If the latter is the case, then yeah, it<br>> probably is memory.<br><br></div>Yeah, so I disconnected everything, including power to the
<br>motherboard. It didn't boot. Surprised? I then started hooking up<br>things one by one. I put the power cord in the motherboard first. It<br>turned on but didn't boot. At no time, with no amount of hooking up
<br>in any configuration, did it boot even to BIOS.<br><br>I will try now using only one stick of the memory instead of both, in<br>case it's the memory. I have a BIOSTAR 945P-A7A that takes DDR2 667<br>memory. I bought 2 512MB sticks of DDR2 667 Crucial memory. Both
<br>came from Newegg.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-todd<br></font><div><div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org" target="_blank">Cialug@cialug.org
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