Re: Yet another Disk Boot Failure debacle

dbubd wrote:

So what you're saying, Odie, is that I'll continue to have a Disk Boot
Failure until I upgrade the XP installation on the SATA frive to SP2.
My XP installation disk is SP1, I've been updating it once intalled.
I'm not positive whether I've gone as far as updating the OS to SP2 on
the SATA since it has the DBF on reboot.

This is my first SATA drive so I'm not sure of all of the intricities
involved in installing them and getting them to work properly. Is it
okay to have a SATA drive as your boot disk or should I stick with an
EIDE drive as my main drive and use SATA disks as additional storage?


All my recovery machines boot from IDE drives; if I set Windows to boot
from an SATA drive and add an IDE drive for recovery, the BIOS defaults
(on all machines) to boot from the IDE drive, which is a pain. I keep
the SATA drives purely for additional storage and for the RAID
controllers.


I've been through all of the BIOS settings that I understand enough to
change (boot order, hard disk order, etc.) and they all appear to be in
line.

It might be that the whole disk needs to be wiped clean and start again
from scratch.

It does sound awkward - but I'm fairly certain if you installed Windows
and pressed the F6 button to add the motherboard's SATA drivers, you'd
be ok - regardless of whether you had SP1 or SP2 slipstreamed onto the
Windows install CD.


Finally, is there a chipset fan that you would recommend? I'm not sure
what to look for as far as fan diameter, power, RPMs, etc...

There are plenty on the market - Akasa, Evercool, etc. Just measure the
size of the existing fan, which you may have to remove by unscrewing the
top plate of the heatsink. Then you can simply slot the replacement fan
in, and bend some of the aluminium tines over the fan to secure it. Bit
of a bodge, but it won't come off. If you have a heatsink with the fan
on top, a replacement fan should screw into the heatsink the same way.
Additionally, some fans come with plastic spikes that plug into the
motherboard at opposite corners of the chipset but this normally means
removing the motherboard to take the old fan out. Avoid chipset coolers
that "glue" onto the chipset - the glue tends to work loose in a matter
of days.



Odie
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