Kazuya17 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 (edited) Well guys i've been facing alot of problems this week, the main problem is getting XP to run without having to format after rebooting.2 errors i got after 8 formats and 4 fresh installations:Diskerror, CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart the system (or something similar)And no harddrive detected on XP installation, even with slipstreamed SATA/RAID drivers. I got no clue why, the only thing i did lately was updating my BIOS software and replacing my old 1.25 GB RAM with 2 GB. (HD: Seagate Barracuda 200GB 7200.7 (ST3200822AS)).Everytime i run without SATA/RAID drivers the harddisk gets detected and i install XP just as normally, then boot up for the second part and everything seems to turn out fine. Then i boot up XP to install some drivers and basic software, then reboot to complete it. Then i get the error about Diskerror.I hope this makes any sense cause i'm out of idea's.PS. I also hope i placed this in the right section, if not then my topic can be moved to right place.Greetings Edited October 8, 2008 by Kazuya17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus_06 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Sounds like HD failure to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AO3 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 What is the HDD connection? IDE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuya17 Posted October 8, 2008 Author Share Posted October 8, 2008 (edited) I got a SATA HD, but i can give IDE support from bios, as it seems to work without SATA drivers. Though thats where the error-after-first-reboot starts showing up.Attempt to create some screenshots: Edited October 8, 2008 by Kazuya17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadav Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Try installing one driver at a time, rebooting each time to try and isolate the rogue driver/software. Also, run Memtest86+ to see if maybe the new RAM is faulty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 you can also test your hard drive with seatools. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DedNDave Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 i would be tempted to put a volt meter on the little battery besides what appears in the BIOS editor, there are some otherhd related parameters stored in the RTC RAMbut, if everything was fine before you changed BIOS, and now it isn't, that is also an indicatorgo to the AMI website and see if you are the only one having this problemthere may be a compatibility issue with your m/b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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