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Ultra ATA HELP!!!
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SR5380
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2. September 2006 @ 07:17 |
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I Just Bought An Asus P5LD2 Deluxe Motherboard....My Hard Drive Is A "Maxtor 300GB PATA" Im Really New At This But I Got All My Bios And Drivers Updated For The Motherboard. Im Running On A Windows Xp Home, And My Processor Is A Intel Pentium D 840 3.2Ghz. Now I Notice That When I Boot Up, A Message Apears "Warning U Are Using A Ultra ATA /66 Or Higher, U Will Be Downgraded 2 /33" I Dont Understand This, But I Do Notice That I Cant Move My I Cons On My Desktop And I Cant Click On Start Unless I Ult/Delete, ANd That Gets It Moving But I Cant Move Any Icon Or Files 2 Diffrent Locations, Any Help Please On 2 Solve This Problem Thanks
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ddp
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2. September 2006 @ 11:52 |
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are you using the 80 wire 40 pin cable on the hd or 40 wire 40 pin cable?
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SR5380
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2. September 2006 @ 18:14 |
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Im Using... Well Im Not Sure But The Cables Came Marked And It The HDD One, It Has A Black Connector On Top And A Grey One After And A Blue Connector At The Bottom..
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ddp
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2. September 2006 @ 19:39 |
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right cable as that is the 80 wire 40 pin cable. what color is the cable connector into the hd?
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SR5380
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2. September 2006 @ 20:13 |
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Its Black 2 Tha Hdd, And Blue 2 Tha Motherboard, Now I Have New Question, On My Motherboard Its Set 2 Standard ide, but it says under it SATA, But I Have PATA...There Was An Option, Where I Can Chage It "SATA+PATA, Or SATA or PATA...Now It Was On SATA..But Just 2 Try It I Changed It 2 PATA ANd My Windows Wouldnt Load, Now I Was Wondering If I Re-Install Windows With The Motherboard Setting On PATA Will That Make Any Diffrence
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ddp
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2. September 2006 @ 20:16 |
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in the bios you should be able to change boot drive from sata to pata. check motherboard manual for that info.
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SR5380
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2. September 2006 @ 20:20 |
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Yeha I Know I Did That Changed It 2 PATA From SATA, But WHen I Loaded Windows On PATA, It Wouldnt Load My WIndows Up, Now If Change The Settings 2 PATA And I Re-Install Windows Will This Make A Diffrence?? I Mean Is That How Its Suppost 2 Be Done, Cause When I Installed Windows On The Hard Drive, The Motherboard Setting Was At SATA, Now Can That Be Whats Causing My Problem???
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ddp
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2. September 2006 @ 20:22 |
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probably is that is causing the problem.
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SR5380
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2. September 2006 @ 20:25 |
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Ok Sorry But So, I SHould Of Changed My Motherboard 2 PATA ANd Then Installed Windows?? Just 2 Make Sure..
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ddp
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2. September 2006 @ 20:28 |
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change it to pata
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