Denise_M
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Hi,
I just finished building a pc. The case has 12 bays.
I have Windows XP Pro x64 and a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 motherboard. I have several Seagate SATA 750G 32Mb buffer 1.5Gb/s hdds that I took out of their external enclosures and installed in the case, and 7 new WD SATA Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 32Mb buffer 3.0Gb/s hdds. I don't have a RAID Array setup. I installed all the drives under the IDE format.
I first installed Drive C, a new WD 1T hdd, and it was labelled as Disk 0 in Disk Management. I then installed Windows, drivers, updated drivers and some programs. I then added the remaining 11 hdds and, for some reason, Drive C was reallocated as Disk 4 in Disk Management.
Is this okay?
I'm having boot problems. . . it usually takes between 2 to 5 resets to get it to boot up, but once it boots up, it works great until I have to reboot again, every 2 days. I'm wondering if I'm having the problem because Drive C was reallocated to Disk 4.
I had no problems with the build . . . everything went smoothly. I tried reseating everything to see if it would correct the problem but it didn't help. I've updated drivers where updates were available.
I don't know if this info is needed, but when my pc boots up, it lists this info:
IDE Channel 0 Master - WDC hdd
IDE Channel 1 Master - Pioneer DVD drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave - Seagate hdd
IDE Channel 2 Master - WD hdd
IDE Channel 3 Master - Seagate hdd
IDE Channel 4 Maser - none
IDE Channel 4 Slave - none
IDE Channel 5 Master - none
IDE Channel 5 Slave - none
I know that SATA requires a fdd and I have one installed and it works, but it's not listed as a Master or Slave.
DVD/CD drive is first in boot order sequence.
Other components:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield cpu
- mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel RAM
- CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W
- ASUS EAH4650-DI-512MD2 Graphics Card
- HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II 8-Port Controller Card
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I just finished building a pc. The case has 12 bays.
I have Windows XP Pro x64 and a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 motherboard. I have several Seagate SATA 750G 32Mb buffer 1.5Gb/s hdds that I took out of their external enclosures and installed in the case, and 7 new WD SATA Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 32Mb buffer 3.0Gb/s hdds. I don't have a RAID Array setup. I installed all the drives under the IDE format.
I first installed Drive C, a new WD 1T hdd, and it was labelled as Disk 0 in Disk Management. I then installed Windows, drivers, updated drivers and some programs. I then added the remaining 11 hdds and, for some reason, Drive C was reallocated as Disk 4 in Disk Management.
Is this okay?
I'm having boot problems. . . it usually takes between 2 to 5 resets to get it to boot up, but once it boots up, it works great until I have to reboot again, every 2 days. I'm wondering if I'm having the problem because Drive C was reallocated to Disk 4.
I had no problems with the build . . . everything went smoothly. I tried reseating everything to see if it would correct the problem but it didn't help. I've updated drivers where updates were available.
I don't know if this info is needed, but when my pc boots up, it lists this info:
IDE Channel 0 Master - WDC hdd
IDE Channel 1 Master - Pioneer DVD drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave - Seagate hdd
IDE Channel 2 Master - WD hdd
IDE Channel 3 Master - Seagate hdd
IDE Channel 4 Maser - none
IDE Channel 4 Slave - none
IDE Channel 5 Master - none
IDE Channel 5 Slave - none
I know that SATA requires a fdd and I have one installed and it works, but it's not listed as a Master or Slave.
DVD/CD drive is first in boot order sequence.
Other components:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield cpu
- mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel RAM
- CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W
- ASUS EAH4650-DI-512MD2 Graphics Card
- HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II 8-Port Controller Card
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.