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DigiDice BSOD on install

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esr2

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A friend of mine grabbed a digidice, 2x512mb ddr400 geil, maxtor 160gb sata drive, pioneer dvd-r and intel 2.4c. He can’t get past the windows install so I came over and had him rma everything just to be safe (who knows what he did before I got there).

New parts arrived today and I installed the digidice just as the manual instructed. The SATA drive is on ide channel 3. The xp pro install (brand new copy of xp) has no problems formatting the drive (comes up as 137gb) but when copying files it gives a boat load of errors trying to copy a variety of files. If it manages to complete it immediately BSODs. I was on my way out so I did not write down the specific error. I’m just wondering if anyone else has had issues with the digidice on a clean install before?

Thanks.

-esr

PS. A radeon 9600xt will be going in it eventually but we left out for the sake of minimizing the possible variables while installing the OS.
 
first of all, the drive size aint right, you gotta enable the feature that allows it to see drives over 137 gig properly. Second, what the hell is a digidice? I would be willing to bet that the drive recognition is your issue.

edit: looked the digidice up, thats pretty sweet!
 
Digidice is abits stupid name for a Shuttle like HTPC. Looks nice but double the size of a shuttle. Small cube.
 
Originally posted by Tedinde
Digidice is abits stupid name for a Shuttle like HTPC. Looks nice but double the size of a shuttle. Small cube.
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I like it cause it has that cool rotary knob on the front:p
 
I do like the looks of it, Reminds me of my YY cube case but small 2 chamber. Saw a nice watercooled one with everything self contained somewhere.

Bigger than a shuttle. Didnt say it was stupid, just the name.
 
first of all, the drive size aint right, you gotta enable the feature that allows it to see drives over 137 gig properly
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Um, the digidice bios does see it as 160gb. when you format a drive you loose space.

Now if anyone has actually used the digidice and may have some digidice related experience, please advise.

-esr
 
Originally posted by esr2
Um, the digidice bios does see it as 160gb. when you format a drive you loose space.

Now if anyone has actually used the digidice and may have some digidice related experience, please advise.

-esr
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137gig means you hit a limitation, a 160GB drive will format to 152GB

even if bios sees it as a 160gig, Windows XP is still restricted by the 137gig drive. learn your stuff, SP1 fixes this.

there are guides onlien if you google and there might be a sticky in the Storage forum here about how to deal with XP
 
learn your stuff
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Shiiiet. Thanks a bunch, It's been a while since I followed the whole sector avidly. I really appriciate the 411. and this sounds to be the issue.

SP1 fixes this
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Im trolling google now, any idea how to impliment this fix on a fresh install with win xp pro (non sp1 updated)... as i cant get past a fresh install.

thanks

-esr

NM, found the sticky, thanks again.
 
i formatted at 120gb for good measure and it had no effect. I finally resorted to just putting a call into abit.

Awaiting a reply now.

-esr
 
sorry we couldn't help more, its a pretty rare item, no one has any experience of its quirks
 
When in doubt bump up the voltage to the memory. I have solved many install issues with a little more juice.
 
Bestbuy was running a special on ddr 400 today (512mb for $60is AR) so i grabbed some, the system installed flawlessly. I'm not quite sure why the dramatically more expensive newegg memory ($130 per stick of 512) wasn't up to par, but i've asked for an RMA. Problem solved.

-esr
 
Originally posted by esr2
Bestbuy was running a special on ddr 400 today (512mb for $60is AR) so i grabbed some, the system installed flawlessly. I'm not quite sure why the dramatically more expensive newegg memory ($130 per stick of 512) wasn't up to par, but i've asked for an RMA. Problem solved.

-esr
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I've never used them, I always stick with kingston, crucial, or corsair, but I have heard alot of people on the [H] dis Geil for giving them problems, such as not being able to run the memory at the rated speed. that may be been your problem as well, instead of just an RMA, ask newegg if you can swap for a different brand with the same stats such as I noted above
 
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