Help Needed Fast - Parents Business PC DEAD

[ChristopherP]

Hmm yeah, i'll do that if i can, though it's a SATA drive, not PATA, but it should work...

Good plan, stan

 

[gabriella]

Dear Chris

And then what happened.....this is better than a cliff hanger!!

Gabriella x

 

[ChristopherP]

i'm just going to send it back i think, i got an RMA number from OCUK so they are expecting it...

 

[Quadophile]

R. I . P.

 

[ChristopherP]

its a shame, it gave absolutely no warning, just found it pretty much dead...well computer crashing every 2 mins...which i wouldn't have said was a hdd problem but it seems you all think it is.

i'll have mum post it tomorrow

 

[newbuilder]

I had the same problem with an Ebuyer HDD (never will I buy one again).

All the same symptoms.

For 3 days after purchase the PC ran like clock-work.

On day 4 all of wha tis happening to Chris happened.

It sounds like a HDD fault, especially if it won't format.

 

[ChristopherP]

Cheers - that confirmed and backs up what everyone else thinks, I'll get it sent out ASAP.

 

[ChristopherP]

New hard drive recieved today.

Installed it, stuck XP on, all good. BUT... Theres more.

I enabled the onboard LAN in BIOS, rebooted, and it wouldn't boot windows. At all, just restarts itself. Disable it... and it works fine.

SO

I update BIOS, to the latest version, thinking it might fix it.

It didnt.

Whats worse, the new BIOS actually does not have the option to enable or disable it, so its stuck on, and therefore will NOT boot windows...

I'm guessing now that this is a motherboard problem...unless putting the new HDD on the silicon image chip as opposed to the intel one means anything?

Grr.

Any help appreciated, Cheers, Chris

 

[ChristopherP]

AHA!

Got it...

Plugged the HDD into the ICHR5 and it worked fine... weird.

Is there anyway to change the drive lettering? e.g. the hard drie is I: and the cd drive is G: i want them as C and D!!!

Anyone know how?

cheers

 

[newbuilder]

To change drive letters

go to

Start

Control Panel

Administrative Tools

Compute rManagement

Disk Managment (under Storage)

Right CLick on the disk and then change letters and/or path.

To change the CD letter sscroll down on the bottom right pane until you see the CDROM drive and right click. Select Change path/Drive

 

[ChristopherP]

thanks

The C: seems to be refusing to change

See attached files...

 

[newbuilder]

It looks as if you cannot modify the letter that Windows boots from.

I don't know if booting from CD would do anything?