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HTPC Woes.

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Limp Gawd
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I'm not sure if this is the propper place to put this but...

I am building a HTPC out of parts I have lying around. Here are the specs:

Amd 2400+mobile
1gig corsair 333 2x512
60gig IBM Deathstar (yeah this is dangerious)
MSI K7N2 ILSR Motherboard
ATI 7000 w/ dvi connection.
LG 54x CD-ROM
Sony 4x DVD/DVD-R

My trouble is it is very very acheingly slow. Upon installing XP it takes it about 5 seconds to actually give me the blue screen (install screen) and after that it hangs for 30 seconds and then slowly loads the drivers and takes a long time to 'start windows'. After I do the partitioning and formatting and coping files. I reboot and load windows. When I do the first real boot it takes maybe a minute or two to get a desktop.

What i've done:

Replaced HD
Replaced IDE cables for hd and cdroms
Replaced CD Rom
Ran memtest86
Ran Pccheck
Reset bios defaults (had to set proc settings due to it being a mobile)

What im going to try when I get off work is swapping my 2400+m w/ my 2700+ tbred. After that all thats left is mobo. Let me know if anyone has any ideas.
 
check the jumper settings on the HD. I don't know about Deathstars, but WD drives require no jumpers if they are the only drive on the channel. Oh, and don't use cable select.

Is the bios configured correctly for your hardware?

You may need to flash the bios with a newer version to remedy the issue. Look on the website to see if the is a known issue with the version of the bios that you have.
 
Turns out it was the HD (go figure)

Get this though...

1st IBM DS - 2nd RMA
2nd IBM/HITA DS - 4th RMA!!!!

Total I have had 5 DS's from IBM and Hitachi, after this RMA it will be 6! I'm thinking of just getting a different brand. I can't afford to lose more data. I lost my mothers pictures and my brothers pictures along with some of my old videos. I am pretty upset. I would have though since IBM sold to Hitachi maybe they would improve, but I guess not.
 
haha exactly what I was thinking. thanks for the sugg anyway : )
 
NP - I can see the description "underwent special testing by the manufacturer 4x more than standard drives"
 
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