butro
07-26-2006, 11:35 AM
I have an older system that still works for me but my hard drive crashed and I bought a new 74 Gb 16mb cache Raptor to replace it. My old mobo was the IC7-G but it would not detect the Raptor. After checking cabling and other SATA ports, I had determined that the drive was bad from the get go but then I tried the drive in a buddy's newer system and the drive formatted and worked flawlessly.
Now I was thinking I had a SATA hardware issue with my board and drive combo and by searching through forums on the net I found out that other people were having similar problems with the IC7-G and Raptor combo. I decided that I would buy a different mobo to fix the problem. Yes I know that there are much, much better systems out there but I really want to wait for Intel 4 Core chips before I upgrade completely. Other wise I would have to buy a new graphics cards, chip, and the whole shabang, something I don't want to do just yet. Anyways, I know a friend who has the Asus P4P800 Deluxe and has had no problems with his Raptor (although its the 74 gb 8mb cache) and his board. So I found the next best thing, the P4P800-SE and bought one cheap for 60 bucks.
The Asus detects the drive right away as IDE Channel 3 Master. This is how the Asus manual says a single SATA will be detected. Great I thought. Now I am in the clear. I can use my new Raptor. Yeah, NO. Now I go to install Windows and the computer hangs after the Windows install CD says "Windows is detecting your hardware configuration..." or something of that nature. It does it every time.
I tried putting an old IDE boot drive in and putting the Raptor as a secondary drive and windows will boot and windows sees the Raptor. I tried copying stuff to the drive and reading those files and found that windows had no problems. I ran scandisk, no problems. I tried installing again on the Raptor and the computer still hangs at that hardware config screen. So now I tried updating to the latest bios. Nope still does it.
I tried calling Asus, and they were no help. They told me to try everything I already tried. They also said that people have used the Raptor as primary drive and had no problems. My friend has his Raptor as the primary drive and has had no problems. Is there an issue about trying to install windows to the 3rd IDE channel? I can't find too much about this on the net and forums. Is the drive bad, even though windows had no problems detecting the drive as a secondary drive, formatting and doing read/writes? Does anyone know if there are any issues with the 16mb cache version and the P4P800? I am lost and need some help. I don't want to buy a another 7200 rpm drive and I don't want this Raptor to just sit on my shelf waiting and wishing for a computer to use it. Anyone? Anyone?
Thanks.
Current computer specs in sig.
Now I was thinking I had a SATA hardware issue with my board and drive combo and by searching through forums on the net I found out that other people were having similar problems with the IC7-G and Raptor combo. I decided that I would buy a different mobo to fix the problem. Yes I know that there are much, much better systems out there but I really want to wait for Intel 4 Core chips before I upgrade completely. Other wise I would have to buy a new graphics cards, chip, and the whole shabang, something I don't want to do just yet. Anyways, I know a friend who has the Asus P4P800 Deluxe and has had no problems with his Raptor (although its the 74 gb 8mb cache) and his board. So I found the next best thing, the P4P800-SE and bought one cheap for 60 bucks.
The Asus detects the drive right away as IDE Channel 3 Master. This is how the Asus manual says a single SATA will be detected. Great I thought. Now I am in the clear. I can use my new Raptor. Yeah, NO. Now I go to install Windows and the computer hangs after the Windows install CD says "Windows is detecting your hardware configuration..." or something of that nature. It does it every time.
I tried putting an old IDE boot drive in and putting the Raptor as a secondary drive and windows will boot and windows sees the Raptor. I tried copying stuff to the drive and reading those files and found that windows had no problems. I ran scandisk, no problems. I tried installing again on the Raptor and the computer still hangs at that hardware config screen. So now I tried updating to the latest bios. Nope still does it.
I tried calling Asus, and they were no help. They told me to try everything I already tried. They also said that people have used the Raptor as primary drive and had no problems. My friend has his Raptor as the primary drive and has had no problems. Is there an issue about trying to install windows to the 3rd IDE channel? I can't find too much about this on the net and forums. Is the drive bad, even though windows had no problems detecting the drive as a secondary drive, formatting and doing read/writes? Does anyone know if there are any issues with the 16mb cache version and the P4P800? I am lost and need some help. I don't want to buy a another 7200 rpm drive and I don't want this Raptor to just sit on my shelf waiting and wishing for a computer to use it. Anyone? Anyone?
Thanks.
Current computer specs in sig.