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I went to Fry's this evening and spent some of my winnings. I got a 10,000 RPM
WDC 75 GIG SATA drive. This is my first foray into Serial ATA. I feel
like the time I switched from MFM/RLL to IDE. It's a whole new world out
there.
I've got a lovely Intel 865PERL motherboard with SATA on the board itself - so theorectically
I can run this new drive as my C: drive without any drivers (like you need with add-on
SATA cards.)
Thing is, last week, thinking I was clever, I flashed the BIOS from the old version
P12 to the new P15 - and I've been regretting it ever since.
The machine boots like once every 12 reboots, and you have to power it off HARD and
let it (the capacitors?) REALLY cool off. It's madenning. First I thought
it was the old IDE Promise RAID card, then I thought it was an impending Hard Drive
failure, then I thought it was a Firewire problem. Now the box is opened up
like a dissected High School frog and this is the only thing I can think it is.
I googled my BRAINS out trying to figure this out. You know, there's a LOT of
people out there on the USENET having hardware troubles! :)
I found this
one guy who appeared to have the same problem. And from the sound of it,
we may just be the two people on the planet that are having this problem.
Anyway, I've removed this jumper and that, flashed the bios again with a recovery
bios (copied onto the only 3.5" Floppy in the ENTIRE house, with some paper I
wrote 12 years ago...I formatted it with impunity, so as to avoid catching some Word
2.0 Macro Virus, or a Stoned ANSI bomb).
It APPEARS to be booting up. Now I begin the long process of designing a storage
and backup strategy for this family!
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