I need some suggestions on issues with my new (first build). Motherboard - ASUS M3N78-VM CPU - AMD Phenom 9500 socket AM2+ P/S - Diablotek 550w RAM - 4GB Kingston DDR2 @ 800MHz SATA 250MB Seagate HDD & SATA Optical drive plus my old ATA 80MB HDD & DVD drive Everything runs and appears compatible so I think there are some settings that need correcting. My issues are: 1) The system defaults to the ATA HDD which is good; but I get the BSD and it tries to reboot in an endless cycle. The HDD has the O/S (Windows XP Pro) and all my program data that I want to use. I hate to have to reinstall it all. When I set the boot sequence manually to the SATA HDD it will boot up and read all the data on the ATA drive no prob. I could live with booting to the SATA if I could transfer the rest of my data to it intact but at each boot it defaults back to the ATA again. 2) When I scroll down the monitor sreen I get a wawe or ripple effect instead of the previous smooth move down. I can't figure what settings to adjust to overcome these issues. I am pretty good at building it ...it's just making it work that's a challenge!!! Any Words of Wisdom from the Addicts out there? (You know who you are!) Thanks for your thoughts.
The issue with your IDE drive is your running completely different hardware than you were before. You probably need to reinstall windows on that drive if you wish to use it, but since you have a SATA drive I would use that since it will yield much higher speeds for data transfer. as far as the other issue, you need to update your video drivers. this should be what you need since as far as I can tell you have nvidia 8200 onboard video correct? Video Drivers.
Hi Mikeismad! Thanks for the response. I am having a hard time figuring out how to navigate this site. Okay, I see reference to NVIDIA geForce & nForce but I don't see the 8200 you mention. Not sure what that all means. It's definite on-board video. Is there a fairly easy way to copy all the rest of the data to the SATA drive? So that it's all recognized as "installed"?
pretty sure you can ghost it over. i think you can use norton ghost for that, but im not positive. your hard drive might have came with some software that will do it for you as well. this link is for the 8 series graphics drivers, it should be what you need. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_182.50_whql.html
Okay thanks for that. I'll check it out tomorrow. It's midnite here and I am falling asleep on the keyboard. G'night, Bud. Steener
Hi sammorris I've read a bunch of your posts. Yes, I installed an OS on the S-ATA to get something running but I would like all the data from the IDE-type drive on the S-ATA intact or boot up to the IDE. I am just not sure which is simpler to do .
Did you instal the OS on the S-ATA drive using the new hardware? The problem you're experiencing is known as chipset incompatibility. All the drivers loaded on the old system, whether you installed them or not, do not load with the new hardware. Particularly with chipset drivers, if they're not compatible, rather than disabling like most drivers would, they will cause a BSOD. The only solution to this is to reinstall windows (or a repair install, which is often complex and difficult) Since you've created a fresh new install and can see the other drive, copy the data over. Since your new drive is bigger, you can potentially copy the entire contents of the drive into a folder and the start sifting through what you want to keep, rather than copy over things as you remember them, potentially leaving something behind.
Yep, I did install the 2nd. OS on the new hardware. I guess that's why that all works together. I will have to basically install each program as I want to use then?
Ewwww, that hurts! Ya do what ya gotta do I guess. mikeismad gave me a link to update the bios regarding my monitor "ripple" issue. He was bang-on about the NVIDIA 8200 but the machine just idled on the site with the monitor flickering for about 2 hrs with no results when I clicked to download the new driver. I ran the chipset disk again but that's where the drivers came from so nothing changed. Any suggestions? The monitor is SHARP so should I be trying the SHARP site or is this strictly a MoBo issue?
You do realise you haven't installed your graphics drivers? That's why screen scrolling is so slow. Go to the nvidia site and download the latest drivers.
Woo-hoo! I have now sammorris. I couldn't get any action from that site; my machine just sat there. I was doing some other things & realized it was some issue involving IE. I switched to Firefox and tried mikeismad's link again a little while ago ...and viola the driver downloaded in short order! My monitor problem is gone! Thank you very much. (I hope I didn't sound like I was ungrateful ...wasn't the intent at all.)
