I'm normally very good at this, but I'm stumped :?
My friend just got a slick new PC, so I got the hand-me-down, which is an Athlon 1700+, 512 megs of PC2100 ram, SiS735 based PCChips motherboard ( ), Radeon 9500 Pro, nice Enermax 460w PS, and a 21 inch monitor
Anyhow, he got a new system because the old one was really flaking out.. randomly rebooting, not starting up, etc.
So I put my 4 HDs in the system (jumpers all set correctly, etc).. booted it up, auto detected the HDs, and then realized that I had IDE0 and IDE1 mixed up, so the HD with the boot sector was on the wrong channel. I swapped the cables, started her up again, and this time the system sat there after OKing the RAM. I tried hitting DEL to go into the bios, but again it sat there.
I took out all the HDs, PCI cards, and left 1 stick of RAM in, started it up, same deal. I connected the one HD with the WinXP install on IDE0, and this time it detected the HD, but I couldn't get into the BIOS or get past the HD auto-detect.
I tried swapping in old IDE cables (rather than ATA66), same deal as above. Tried swapping RAM sticks, and again the same. I even tried connecting only the new 100 gig WD drive, just to see if I could get by the HD autodectect after the RAM 'ok', but to no avail :?
So I'm stumped!
The system has always been REALLY flakey (my buddy couldn't get it to boot for 2 weeks, then he kicked it and it ended up booting fine..), so I suspect it's the ghetto SiS735 PCChips board. I'm prepared to go out and buy an A7N8X-DX (nF2), but I wanted to see if you guys had any other ideas.
Any theories appreciated!
My friend just got a slick new PC, so I got the hand-me-down, which is an Athlon 1700+, 512 megs of PC2100 ram, SiS735 based PCChips motherboard ( ), Radeon 9500 Pro, nice Enermax 460w PS, and a 21 inch monitor
Anyhow, he got a new system because the old one was really flaking out.. randomly rebooting, not starting up, etc.
So I put my 4 HDs in the system (jumpers all set correctly, etc).. booted it up, auto detected the HDs, and then realized that I had IDE0 and IDE1 mixed up, so the HD with the boot sector was on the wrong channel. I swapped the cables, started her up again, and this time the system sat there after OKing the RAM. I tried hitting DEL to go into the bios, but again it sat there.
I took out all the HDs, PCI cards, and left 1 stick of RAM in, started it up, same deal. I connected the one HD with the WinXP install on IDE0, and this time it detected the HD, but I couldn't get into the BIOS or get past the HD auto-detect.
I tried swapping in old IDE cables (rather than ATA66), same deal as above. Tried swapping RAM sticks, and again the same. I even tried connecting only the new 100 gig WD drive, just to see if I could get by the HD autodectect after the RAM 'ok', but to no avail :?
So I'm stumped!
The system has always been REALLY flakey (my buddy couldn't get it to boot for 2 weeks, then he kicked it and it ended up booting fine..), so I suspect it's the ghetto SiS735 PCChips board. I'm prepared to go out and buy an A7N8X-DX (nF2), but I wanted to see if you guys had any other ideas.
Any theories appreciated!