| Kona, at what point does it puke and when it pukes does it present you with a message and or an error code, if so what? |
It puked when I loaded the Intel Video driver. Turns out they must have shipped the wrong driver disk with the MoBo because I dl'ed the latest intel 810 Graphics driver and now the system is once again stable.
I guess I should tell my friend to get a bigger (maybe 32 meg?) video card. 2 mb sucks.
| Then quit asking other for advice and maybe you will not get messages from me |
Never asked for advice., I asked for help. Maybe you should just ignore my threads as you have nothing positive to add and quite frankly I care not about what you say.
Treat others as you want to be treated
If you have nothing good to say, say nothing.
| Is it a single partition assigned to the whole 40 gb drive? Fat32 doesn't support much over 4 gb per partition. |
No it is 1 partition on a 1 gig drive. The drive is working great.
| I would recommand windows xp since NTFS supports single partition the size of 40 gb. |
as soon as my friend gets a stick of 256 SD RAM and the new 20 gig or 40 gig drive he will get XP as well. he is also looking into a Pentium 3.
| When switching or installing a new hard disk, make sure the BIOS recognize the size of the new disk also make sure to format the new disk prior to installing the OS.Also, I dont think installing Win 98 and Me in a 1Gb disk is a good idea as you will leave practically no free space to install/run any mayor programs. |
BIOS regognizes the drive, no problems there. I used killdisk to do a low level format. no worries there either.
I installed 98 and have about 700 free megs for space. he just wants a internet machine for ebay business, nothing more until he gets XP.
| I'm assuming this is a used HD. Run TuffTest Link on it. May just be a bad HD. |
Thanks for the link.
