Tomcat 815T v1.10 s2080

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Hello:

I bought a new Tomcat 815T v1.10 from Newegg a little over a month ago and a
couple days ago I decided to put it in a case and install WindowsXP. It
came with the v1.08 BIOS and I flashed it to the v.1.10 BIOS. I used a 1gig
PIII that was working a year ago in a W2K setup with the same chipset,
i815EP.

Anyway I installed XP and got a "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error but with a
few tries it got arond that and finished installing. But most of the time it
goes to the start screen with the blue bar and then a blue error screen pops
up for a fraction of a second and it reboots again, it does that over and
over again. Once in awhile XP loads up properly and it seems to work fine.
I used a new WD drive and thought that might be a problem and then I tried
an old 10 gig drive and installed XP on that, only it didn't get as far.
After formatting, loading files etc. and starting up it flips to a blue
screen and I get the "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. Tried disabling some
BIOS features one by one, the only card I am using is the video card. I
have run chkdsk etc., no help.

I did install W2K on the WD drive and the Tomcat worked fine. The XP Home
version is a new one with SP2 built in. Any suggestions? Is my board bad?

Thanks, Gene

 

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An update on my Tomcat problem. I found a drive jumper that wasn't set
right so I changed it, repartitioned the WD drive and reformatted it and
started installing XP again. This time it did worse. On the first reboot
during installation I got the "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. Now I can't
get through installation. I even put in another new 80 conductor cable. So
two drives, two new cables, same result. I ran every check disk routine and
still the same. Could it be the IDE controller? Tried email support with
Tyan and that is pretty worthless.

I really wanted this as a replacement PIII board because it has USB 2.0 and
takes the faster PIIIs. Please help me save my board.

Gene

"Mr.G" <drawTAKEOUTpress@hotmail.net> wrote in message
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> Hello:
>
> I bought a new Tomcat 815T v1.10 from Newegg a little over a month ago and
a
> couple days ago I decided to put it in a case and install WindowsXP. It
> came with the v1.08 BIOS and I flashed it to the v.1.10 BIOS. I used a
1gig
> PIII that was working a year ago in a W2K setup with the same chipset,
> i815EP.
>
> Anyway I installed XP and got a "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error but with a
> few tries it got arond that and finished installing. But most of the time
it
> goes to the start screen with the blue bar and then a blue error screen
pops
> up for a fraction of a second and it reboots again, it does that over and
> over again. Once in awhile XP loads up properly and it seems to work
fine.
> I used a new WD drive and thought that might be a problem and then I tried
> an old 10 gig drive and installed XP on that, only it didn't get as far.
> After formatting, loading files etc. and starting up it flips to a blue
> screen and I get the "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. Tried disabling
some
> BIOS features one by one, the only card I am using is the video card. I
> have run chkdsk etc., no help.
>
> I did install W2K on the WD drive and the Tomcat worked fine. The XP Home
> version is a new one with SP2 built in. Any suggestions? Is my board bad?
>
> Thanks, Gene
>
>

 

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Hello Gene,

Did you use the 80 pin IDE cable that came with the board? My motherboard
had problems with using any other 80 pin IDE cable, but the one it came
with.

I had another problem with my motherboard, that I had to Fdisk my HD and
format the HD with a Win98 boot disk. You can get a Win98 bootdisk here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/. Once I did that my WinXP Pro installed with out a
problem. (when you are asked if I wanted to convert to
NTFS, select yes)

Anthony
My System:
Tan Tomcat i815T v1.10
Intel P3 933MHz
350w Power Supply
2x256MB PC133 RAM (DIMM1 and DIMM3)
ASUS GeFroce 4 Ti4200 128MB RAM
IBM 80GB HD 7200 ATA100 (OS: WinXP PRO SP2)
Lite-on 52x CDR
Lite-on 32x12x24x CDRW


"Mr.G" <drawTAKEOUTpress@hotmail.net> wrote in message
news:cc-dnQk8Yc375OTfRVn-2g@bright.net...
> An update on my Tomcat problem. I found a drive jumper that wasn't set
> right so I changed it, repartitioned the WD drive and reformatted it and
> started installing XP again. This time it did worse. On the first reboot
> during installation I got the "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. Now I
> can't
> get through installation. I even put in another new 80 conductor cable.
> So
> two drives, two new cables, same result. I ran every check disk routine
> and
> still the same. Could it be the IDE controller? Tried email support with
> Tyan and that is pretty worthless.
>
> I really wanted this as a replacement PIII board because it has USB 2.0
> and
> takes the faster PIIIs. Please help me save my board.
>
> Gene
>
> "Mr.G" <drawTAKEOUTpress@hotmail.net> wrote in message
> news:1v-dnV9xI7VpsuTfRVn-gA@bright.net...
>> Hello:
>>
>> I bought a new Tomcat 815T v1.10 from Newegg a little over a month ago
>> and
> a
>> couple days ago I decided to put it in a case and install WindowsXP. It
>> came with the v1.08 BIOS and I flashed it to the v.1.10 BIOS. I used a
> 1gig
>> PIII that was working a year ago in a W2K setup with the same chipset,
>> i815EP.
>>
>> Anyway I installed XP and got a "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error but with
>> a
>> few tries it got arond that and finished installing. But most of the time
> it
>> goes to the start screen with the blue bar and then a blue error screen
> pops
>> up for a fraction of a second and it reboots again, it does that over and
>> over again. Once in awhile XP loads up properly and it seems to work
> fine.
>> I used a new WD drive and thought that might be a problem and then I
>> tried
>> an old 10 gig drive and installed XP on that, only it didn't get as far.
>> After formatting, loading files etc. and starting up it flips to a blue
>> screen and I get the "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. Tried disabling
> some
>> BIOS features one by one, the only card I am using is the video card. I
>> have run chkdsk etc., no help.
>>
>> I did install W2K on the WD drive and the Tomcat worked fine. The XP
>> Home
>> version is a new one with SP2 built in. Any suggestions? Is my board
>> bad?
>>
>> Thanks, Gene
>>
>>
>
>

 

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For those who might be interested Tyan phone support got me up and running
again. First they had me clear the BIOS again. Then I hit F8 at the splash
screen and finally install continued then on subsequent boots I got in on
safe mode. From that point I had to install some Intel chipset drivers.
The generic XP drivers and this chipset apparently don't agree on something.
I had tried this before but the complete clearing of the BIOS must have
helped something. Also the Tyan setup disk did not want to run in safe mode
until about the third safe boot and then it took off and installed workable
drivers. After that, per Tyan support, I downloaded and installed the
newest Intel drivers for that chipset.

Gene
"Mr.G" <drawTAKEOUTpress@hotmail.net> wrote in message
news:1v-dnV9xI7VpsuTfRVn-gA@bright.net...
> Hello:
>
> I bought a new Tomcat 815T v1.10 from Newegg a little over a month ago and
a
> couple days ago I decided to put it in a case and install WindowsXP. It
> came with the v1.08 BIOS and I flashed it to the v.1.10 BIOS. I used a
1gig
> PIII that was working a year ago in a W2K setup with the same chipset,
> i815EP.
>
> Anyway I installed XP and got a "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error but with a
> few tries it got arond that and finished installing. But most of the time
it
> goes to the start screen with the blue bar and then a blue error screen
pops
> up for a fraction of a second and it reboots again, it does that over and
> over again. Once in awhile XP loads up properly and it seems to work
fine.
> I used a new WD drive and thought that might be a problem and then I tried
> an old 10 gig drive and installed XP on that, only it didn't get as far.
> After formatting, loading files etc. and starting up it flips to a blue
> screen and I get the "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. Tried disabling
some
> BIOS features one by one, the only card I am using is the video card. I
> have run chkdsk etc., no help.
>
> I did install W2K on the WD drive and the Tomcat worked fine. The XP Home
> version is a new one with SP2 built in. Any suggestions? Is my board bad?
>
> Thanks, Gene
>
>