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Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by whiskey99, Oct 3, 2013.

  1. whiskey99

    whiskey99 Regular member

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    HI,ddp,Well i finally my 2 HDD'S to connect to the internet had to download 3 files into the WD HDD that allowed it to connect to the internet still tweaking it,but can surf the internet.
    All that is left to do is get HD AUDIO(CODE34) has question mark by it to work and one PORT to work it has a question mark by COMM PORT4(CODE10),thanks for the help.
    Also finally learned how to make an ISO to download the files,almost pulled a muscle patting myself on the back.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    do you need the audio driver for the dell?
     
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    whiskey99 Regular member

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    Today, 07:57 AM

    HI,Well it looks like i finally got my PC straightened out with 1MOBO and 2hdd's.

    (1) First HDD was in a DELL E521 and was a SATA HDD.

    (2) The 2nd HDD was from a GATEWAY GT 4010 IDE drive.

    (3) Got a adapter to attach to the IDE drive so i could hook up to the SATA system,then the fun started in trying to get all of the

    drivers i needed to up date the GATEWAY HDD to work on the SATA MOBO.

    The biggest problem i had was getting the WD HDD to connect to the internet i finally learned how to make a ISO disk to

    download the drivers to the WD HDD,then had to locate all the drivers to get all of those silly little question marks off of the

    device manager,but when i got all question marks removed with updates then i was able to connect to the internet on WD HDD.

    The annoying problem i have right now is having to go into BIOS and change boot order to go from one HDD to the other HDD.

    I think there should be a way to do this as in dual boot type of setup where i can switch between HDD'S without having to shut

    down one HDD and start up another HDD thru the BIOS.
     
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    whiskey99 Regular member

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    HI,ddp,It appears everything is working for right now rechecked audio and it is working,thanks
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    what windows are you trying to dual boot?
     
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    whiskey99 Regular member

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    Well i am not really sure,what i would like to be able to
    do is in a simple form is like we can do when we go from F/F to I.E. by just going to the start page and click on which ever browser we want without having to go to the trouble of having to shut down PC then restarting back up and hitting F2 go into setup and changing the boot order to get to the 2nd HDD AND STARTING THE PROCESS all over again just to get to another HDD.
     
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    what windows are you using as in xp to xp or xp to vista in your version of dual booting which you are doing wrong?
     
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    They both have XP installed on the HDD'S
     
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    why are you trying to dual boot both xp's?
     

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