Hello there,
I just finally got round to putting the bag of goodies that I bought earlier last week into my pc. New HSF, rounded cable, filter, some of that wrap to tidy up all of those cables, as well as some of that tape to unlock my duron.
Well got everything together, removed more dirt then I want to think about from the case. Moved the HDD from the Highpoint-controller to the via ide channels, planning on installing linux and this is the easiest way.
Boot up and all's not well. Running XP and found that cusor was sticking and the machine seemed to be stalling. Booted into safe mode and all seemed fine. Messed around a bit but as the install was misbehaving I though I would reinstall. Got as far as starting for the first time and my speakers, attached to a SB Live, started singing like a pc speaker
and every the blasted thing locked up. Finaly through trial and error I found that by setting the HDD, IBM Deskstar GXP75, to cable select on its own channel with the DVD and CDRW on the other allowed me to get things working as long as I removed the sound card.
Tried bios settings, using ATA33 cables instead of 66/100, Put everything back to where it was before I started.
Refreshed the ESCD no joy. Reinstalled again this time tried ME, as its a little quicker. Still no joy.
Fixed it like this. Moved SB Live to a new slot and installed all hunky dory. Now for the bit that I don't get. I moved it back to the offending slot and it worked no problem.
Is there any logic to this?? Sounds a bit to much like Stand on one leg turn around clockwise three times and then push the on button
Two long days and this is how I fixed it. I would nearly rather it to be broken rather than not understand what went right.
Griobhta