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i was still getting bsod after i removed the hard drive so i have given up on that mobo now,i just bought one of these instead B) thanks for all the help,i only hope i dont need more when i put this one in

So how do you install Windows? Without a floppy, and without some kind of slip CD, you should not be able to install windows. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i used my xp cd to install the os (is this a slip cd?) my motherboard is a Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI and my power supply is a Thermaltake PurePower 560w

i dont actually know where to find the boot ini and i dont know what a slip CD is i feel kinda stupid but for now i have removed my large hdd and done a fresh install of windows if you could help me out with a quick tutorial on how to do what you said i would be very grateful,thats if you have the time B)

i tried to follow the steps in the link but the Mpegport.sys driver was not in my list my problem seems to have got worse since i added another gig of ram

i just got the error again when trying to play baldurs gate 2 this is the error that came up Stop: 0x000000fc (0xaeba18c4,0x30f56163,0xaeba1800,0x00000001)

i think i may have found the cause of my problems,i just updated to the latest nforce drivers and i was getting a bsod as soon as windows started,it happend in safe mode too when i included network support,i tried normal safe mode and it worked fine! i did a system restore and uninstalled my nvidia forceware network acccess manager then updated the nforce driver again,so far i havent had a bsod yet i also checked the large hdd to see if it needed a defrag and i was amazed how overdue one was,so far i havent had another bsod and my hdd access has been a lot faster

its not coming up with anything that i can sort out,there were a lot of errors in my system log but all of them seem minor problems,i think im going to buy another motherboard but im not sure what to go for,could someone point me in the right direction? it has to have sli and be compatable with all the parts i listed above

im pretty sure that i have both my drives set as master maybe that is the problem

thanks for the help guys,i installed the software from the maxtor website but it didnt seem to help,do you know how i would go about installing the sata drivers without a floppy drive?

for some reason my second hdd is not working as it should,its a 300gig sata drive and its been like this since i put it in my new pc (it was working perfectly in my old one) when i go to browse the contents of the drive by double clicking on it in my computer it opens instantly as it should,but then it wont let me go into any of the folders on the drive for a few seconds it wont even let me hilight them. the drive also crashes my pc sometimes. i get the bsod and then windows will fail to restart(another bsod before the loading screen) when i check the bios its not being detected untill i power off then on again its driving me mad because i know there is nothing wrong with the drive and i cant seem to find the solution to the problem here are my system specs AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Processor NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX Extreme Edition SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio Corsair 1024Mb XMS4000XL Pro X-Treme Low Latency Memory Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Motherboard 120gig Maxtor SATA 300gig Maxtor SATA i didnt install any sata drivers because i dont have a floppy drive