pc issues

[se4b4ss]

i am trying to upgrade my hd, but am having some issues. i am working on the pc in my sig plus a new 120GB WD 8MB 7200RPM IDE hard drive.

ever since i put the drive in, my bios posts are taking forever. "detecting ide drives" takes about 30 seconds followed by 30 seconds on the following screen. i have the bios detect the drive and still the same. it is set up for primary master with a single dvd rw as the secondary master. if i put the old 40gb hd back in, it boots up normally.

so, i installed win xp pro anyhow but now i have to set my primary boot drive to the cdrom instead of the hd0 b/c i get a "disk boot failure" when set to hd0. if i set the primary to cdrom, the secondary, tertiary, etc to none it boots to windows...

when in windows, i get only a default vga card and no monitor detected. on the old hd, win xp detects the 9600xt and nex monitor...

any help on this is greatly appreciated.

regards,
steve

 

[se4b4ss]

ok, typing the post made me think about the master/slave switch. i had it on master with a slave instead of stand alone. the post is quick now.

any ideas on the video card?

steve

 

[se4b4ss]

hey, installing the drivers seemed to work!

sorry guys for the wasted thread. guess its been a while sinceive built a pc.

thanks,
steve

 

[S1nF1xx]

Lol, funny thread. As I read each post I thought of the reply I was going to give, and then I saw your next post saying you fixed it.

Good read.