Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar (More info?)
Hi. Any insight is appreciated. This is a bizarre one.
I will list the items I've tried to save time in anyone's replies.
System is:
-K8N Neo2 Platnium
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+
-MSI Ti4200 AGP Card
-2x512MB PC3200 DDR400
-2 Hard Drives on Primary IDE (10GB C - 82GB D)
-2 DVD Drives on Secondary
When UDMA is enabled in the BIOS, the system would not boot... it
would reboot before Windows loaded.
I was using 80-pin cables that worked before the upgrade.
Switched to another more expensive 80-pin cable... Windows now boots,
but system will randomly reboot, specifically when CD/DVD burning or
accessing the slave hard drive.
Here are the other details:
- Any BIOS combination of UDMA enabled/disabled randomly crashes
system.
- System runs perfect when UDMA totally disabled on both channels.
(ie: CD burning flawless with UDMA disabled).
- Tried 3 sets of IDE cables, same problem
- Tried XP stock IDE drivers and Nvidia IDE drivers... same problem
- Removed devices and drivers from Control Panel and rebooted for them
to automatically reinstall... same problem.
- This IDE configuration worked fine on previous motherboard/CPU
(before upgrade).
- Jumpers on all devices are properly set for appropriate
slave/master, etc.
- I'm not overclocking CPU, video, RAM or motherboard
- System still crashes if I unplug DVD drives.
Anyone experience this? Anyone have some thoughts?
Thanks.
Hi. Any insight is appreciated. This is a bizarre one.
I will list the items I've tried to save time in anyone's replies.
System is:
-K8N Neo2 Platnium
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+
-MSI Ti4200 AGP Card
-2x512MB PC3200 DDR400
-2 Hard Drives on Primary IDE (10GB C - 82GB D)
-2 DVD Drives on Secondary
When UDMA is enabled in the BIOS, the system would not boot... it
would reboot before Windows loaded.
I was using 80-pin cables that worked before the upgrade.
Switched to another more expensive 80-pin cable... Windows now boots,
but system will randomly reboot, specifically when CD/DVD burning or
accessing the slave hard drive.
Here are the other details:
- Any BIOS combination of UDMA enabled/disabled randomly crashes
system.
- System runs perfect when UDMA totally disabled on both channels.
(ie: CD burning flawless with UDMA disabled).
- Tried 3 sets of IDE cables, same problem
- Tried XP stock IDE drivers and Nvidia IDE drivers... same problem
- Removed devices and drivers from Control Panel and rebooted for them
to automatically reinstall... same problem.
- This IDE configuration worked fine on previous motherboard/CPU
(before upgrade).
- Jumpers on all devices are properly set for appropriate
slave/master, etc.
- I'm not overclocking CPU, video, RAM or motherboard
- System still crashes if I unplug DVD drives.
Anyone experience this? Anyone have some thoughts?
Thanks.