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RockSolid

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I have just changed the DVD burner from the purple slot GSATAII 1 port to GSATAII 3 and I updated Vista to SP1 and now it show me I have 4GB of ram in my startup welcome screen before this It was 3.32 of memory why is this?

A big problem my HD light stays on and my mouse don't move around the screen and the Blue screen shows up and I have to re-start windows could it be because I changed the DVD SATA burner from one slot to another?

BTW my MB is Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6.

bye
 
RockSolid said:
I have just changed the DVD burner from the purple slot GSATAII 1 port to GSATAII 3 and I updated Vista to SP1 and now it show me I have 4GB of ram in my startup welcome screen before this It was 3.32 of memory why is this?

A big problem my HD light stays on and my mouse don't move around the screen and the Blue screen shows up and I have to re-start windows could it be because I changed the DVD SATA burner from one slot to another?

BTW my MB is Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6.

bye
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Is the GSATAII 3 port green because i don't think color really matters and its weird that vista sp1 changes that maybe there was a patch that helped 32bit os's detect the full 4gb ram and that would be nice but i'm on 64bit anyways.

Maybe if you want to see if the reason why your hd light stays on and your mouse don't move you can put the dvd writer back on the old purple port and see if it works now without a blue screen so you dont have to restart your computer any more.
 
English: Learn it, use it. It would also be beneficial to post more descriptive thread titles (for you and others).

It may have caused some sort of problem if port 1 and 3 use different controllers, but this seems pretty extreme. In any case, the first thing to try is to change the port back. Did you update your OS at the same time or before or after? When did the problems start exactly?

When you updated Vista, did you reinstall windows? Did you have 32 bit or 64 bit before?
 
I had to unstall the SP1 NOW from my computer Because my HD light just stayed on and windows played up all the time everytime I open files in windows it will lock and when I wanted to shut down the computer it will lockup again I press the restall button many times but it did not restart everthing was locked so I had to turn off the mains power to restart my computer four times "Not Good"

Now it shows I have 3.25GB of memory shown on my welcome screen and my HD light don't stay on like it did with SP1.

I also put the DVD burner back into GSATAII 1 slot it's still working I can now open my files and go on the net again and as for my HD light it's now off.

@Version_3

All my four GSATAII slots are purple and six SATAII are yellow on my Gigabyte MB.

I only changed the DVD over because I want my WD 500GB HDD to run on its own controller and not share it with the DVD but now I have put it back like before, I don't know if this was the problem for the blue screen and the HD light or not I am just worried now when I put my other WD 320GB into the GSATAII 3 slot, because I don't want too have the same problem again over GSATAII 3 slot. thats why I was going to put it in the Yellow slot for SATAII 0, what do you think?

@aethelwulf. what do you mean "English" I am English I just type my post fast because of my computer keep locking up all the time maybe I made some mistake in my post, Ok on the 8/3/08 I installed my Windows Vista home Permium 32bit and everthing worked great even my games then on the 13/3/08 I install SP1 then about 4pm same day I changed over the DVD from GSATAII 1 to GSATAII 3 from then on evething went wrong it could have been the SP1 or me I don't know!!!!..

I put the date as the day/month/year the British way, And as I am in China my time is different to you hope this helps you to understand...

Bye
 
I guess he meant use correct grammar, to make it easier to read.

Anyhow, move your optical devices onto the same color ports, and move your HDDs to the other color ports. Hopefully, that does the trick.
 
@enginurd

Thank you for your advice.

But no I will leave the DVD burner in the same ports as the WD, HDD it works at the moment without any problems and as for the other WD, HDD I just don't know what colour port to use?
 
Something's screwy with that board. I have a mix of HDDs and Optical drives on both of my SATA controllers, and they all work fine (2xHDDs + 1xODD on ICH9R; 1xODD + 1xHDD on GBSATA). What mode do you have them set to in the BIOS? Are you using the PATA controller at all?
 
By the way, don't trust a word of what Vista SP1 says about your available RAM. Prior to Vista SP1, all versions of Windows would report how much memory was available to the system. SP1 changes it to display how much memory is physically present. The service pack does not change the fact that your 32-bit Windows can only use 3.25GB RAM on your system.
 
@enginurd

Both my HDD and DVD are SATA only and my MB is Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6, I don't think it is the MB or it's ports it self I think it was SP1 in my opinion bloody nightmare.:mad:

In my BIOS they are set as SATAII but I didn't disable the RAID drivers maybe thats the problem.:confused:

@Mithent

I will never trust SP1 until it is fixed....
 
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