Recent content by Thehelix

Grimmda I like your suggestion. I like being clever, but with the time lost I will get caught being clever by half.... On to complete install. Helix out!

Thanks people, makes sense! Tonight I will give it a whirl!

Happy Friday, enough of the nonesense! I gots me a Dell P4 1.6Ghz I booted from C: which was runnung 98SE (not enough space to install XP) Then I installed XP Pro from CD onto D: preserving existing files. I unplugged the C: and removed the XP install CD. Power up.... Now she gives me...

BBGun you are probably right, my vast posting experience should have shown me the way. :D Now that you mention it I remember a momentary flash of a blue Dell screen but not the usual BIOS manufacturer, memory counting etc. They make it so difficult. Drdeutsch, thanks I like that approach...

My brother has a Dell running XP, sorry no further details yet except that its a few years old. It is hopelessly infected with spyware and hijackers. Can't open My Computer etc. I will add that I may have hosed it by try to install SP2 in this messed up state. Now all we want to do is get some...

IDE/SATA Function is Disabled and other available SATA's are Enabled From the GigaByte CD I used the nVidia Series ATA (XP) drivers @ F6 Then later when it asks you for the SCSI drivers use the same floppy. I had problems with the IDECOI.dll file but I re-formatted and re-created the drivers...

Building my first PC from the ground up and the SATA drivers are giving me some troubles. Got my self close but the BIOS settings maybe my final hurddle. I have a Giga-byte GA-K8N Ultra-9 m/b with a grand total of 8 SATA ports. 4 are nVidia and 4 are Sil. I am not setting up a RAID, one...