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Offline TheflyingElk

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« on: January 26, 2002, 03:03:01 AM »
Well Iwent and did it, went out and got a Geforce 3 Ti 200 and a new 20 gig hard drive now I am so screwed I can just barely post here!, Set up P III 800 / on Tyan S2507S MB trinity 450, windows XP new detonator drivers from Nvidia , Vid-card Gainward , Old HD Maxtor 13gig, new drive trying to slave Maxtor 20gig, 512 133 Ram, sound blaster live, CD rom , floppy , Direct X 8.1 , First cant get slave drive recognised wont come up in XP HD managment area, so I have 90$ paper weight so far, getting disc consistecy message from XP 3 out of 4 boot ups, then for added fun when I try to run any progams with graphics XP reboots then tells me Problem with video display, should I call home to microsoft! AHHH!
well I went to Tyans site and DL the newest BIOS  but have no Idea what to do with it LOL affraid to attempt BIOS flash never done that one before and they warn ya if you screw this up it on you Great! well I need some sleep any  advice would be welcome or any good natured ribbing before I take this box to work and fly to 20 k  and drop it!~:mad: just tried to open AH opening clip board lock and boom reboot then consistency fat 32 C drive and scan advisory and the I want to call microsoft Mess saying that its the Geforce 3  causing instability Gawd I am sooo Screwed!
« Last Edit: January 26, 2002, 03:19:25 AM by TheflyingElk »
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Offline mrsid2

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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2002, 03:20:06 AM »
Did you partition and format the new harddrive? If you didn't it won't show up in XP.

What version of display drivers you're using? Get the latest one from http://www.nvidia.com and try with that.

Check your bios settings, make sure you have video caching off and agp aperture set to 128Mb.
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2002, 09:43:22 AM »
You mentioned FAT32 file system, that is an older file system from win98, XP uses NTSC file system not sure if you reformated before you put in your drives or if you have XP at all.  Try reformating you old drive and see if that works XP if i remember correctly has to use NTSC file system or its no good.
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Offline TheflyingElk

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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2002, 09:57:36 AM »
OK thanks all for the help ,  still trying, keep it coming:)  ok set BIOS video cache to disable and agp apeture to 128 still getting reset boot then C- drive consistency  scan fat 32 check, I have not been able to get 2nd drive formatted because XP dosent even see yet, called  Maxtor tech support they said slave cable to cdrom? anyway Fat 32 formatte on 1st hard drive, still getting video error I wanna call microsoft mess. geforce display is the culprit mess but I dont buy it was doing same stuff with tnt 2 card :(  should I just reformatte both drives and reinstall XP? or just try to get 1 drive working ? using Nvidia XP detonator drives 2.11.150 just fresh from Nvidia web site
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2002, 11:14:30 AM »
First of all, you should have formated the new hard drive as either fat32 or ntfs file system.  (Someone above put ntsc - ntsc is the standard that TVs in the US use. :)  )  You also need to be sure your new drive has the little jumper set to "slave" if you haven't done so already.
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2002, 11:18:21 AM »
Hehe yeah I meant NTFS not NTSC....my suggestion would be to reformat both of them using XP
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2002, 11:54:10 AM »
Fat32 works just fine with WindowsXP, for that you don't need to reformat.

You have to partition and format the new harddrive using fdisk or some third party software (look from harddrive manufacturer web site) before you do that, windows just won't reckognize it.

Another approach is to unplug the original hd, boot from XP cdrom and run XP setup. The setup will first partition and format the harddrive.. After you have formatted the drive you can quit the setup there, plug back the old harddrive (just remember to move the new harddrive as a slave with the jumper) and you're done.

Actually I think it's enough just to create the primary partition and after that XP can format and partition the drive further.

As Bloom said, check that you have the hd setup as primary slave or secondary master. If it shares a cable with another component, it should be set to slave (original device is most likely set to master)
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2002, 03:48:12 PM »
Theres no need to use fdisk if you're not formatting your system disk, or trying to reparition an existing disk if you're using XP.

If you go into control panel, and open the administrative tools, open computer maangement. Then click on disk management on the left hand side.

From here you'll see all the drives attached to your computer and you can format and make new partitions, even change drive letters and such.
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2002, 03:59:02 PM »
Starbird if there is no primary partition on the drive the drive management doesn't see any drives attached.

At least that's what happened to me when I installed my new harddrive under w2k. So drive management showed up empty untill I had set up the primary partition.
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2002, 07:39:19 PM »
alright!:D  progress Hard drive problem solved got fresh XP install both HD online, Now GF3 issue gainward ti 200 giving me trouble with XP boots during graphics loading , then I get I wanna call microsft mess. both gainward disc driver set and nvidia version listed above, any Idea of a driver set that works now and where to find it? do I need to DL 4in newest driver set from VIA? getting close thanks all so far:p
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2002, 07:47:46 PM »
Only download Via 4in1 drivers if your motherboard has a Via Chipset, if it does than by all means d/l it, if not dont bother.  As far as what Det drivers you need the newest ones seem to very buggy.  go to http://www.guru3d.com and you can find almost every det driver out there.  Find an older version that is still compatible with XP and maybe that will help. Well watermelon it seems that the downloads page at guru is down.  Im not sure where else you can find the drivers. I would just do a search at the best search engine in the world http://www.37.com  it searches 37 search engines at the same time...hope all this helps....good luck mate

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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2002, 07:58:12 PM »
http://www.videocarddrivers.com/nvidia.htm
 or better yet http://www.the-ctrl-alt-del.com/  

the second site has drivers all the way up to 27.10 my suggestion would be to download all the relevant XP drivers and keep installing them until you find one that works the best
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2002, 08:00:00 PM »
Im sure the 27.10 drivers are not WHQL certified but more than likey leaked Beta drivers so you might wanna try older versions 1st
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2002, 08:50:01 PM »
The older drivers lack support for Ti line of geforce and that renders them useless. Windoze won't even let you install them.
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2002, 10:39:50 PM »
yes Iam still screwed:mad: well this the latest error mess. I got at lock up Nvida display driver caused C\ windows\logfiles\watchdog\020126_200201
then next lock got this C\windowsmimidump\mini012602-02
that was with driver set 27.10 set still trying driver sets:confused:
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