I have a Asus K8N-E Deluxe with a Semperon 3400 and 1.5GB of
Kingstone Value RAM.
Antec true power 550watt
Onboard NIC, and audio
AGP Video = ATI AIW 9600 PRO
One PCI = Promise ATA 133 controller with two WD 60 GB drives running
software RAID 0.
One PCI = OrangeMicro USB2 ... this is just for extra USB2 ports
LiteON DVD 4 speed burner... very reliable installed on primary master PATA
Most recent BIOS flash. Everything is running at defaults... no
overclocking.. no tweaking ...nothing.
This is a third computer that I use when I need a another video
recording device, and for storage. I don't turn it on very often
For the last four years I have stayed with Intel boards, chipsets and
CPUs and I never see a blue screen... until I ventured into AMD with
this setup.
At first I was using a WD 200 GB PATA drive as the boot drive with
Windows 2000 on C and XP PRO on D ... no SATA... but I was having
trouble with a 8 speed Lite ON I had installed. It was difficult to
get a good burn. So I pulled it out and put in my always reliable 4
speed Lite on. And I swapped out the WD 200 GB PATA for a Maxtor
Enterprise 300GB SATA that was running in another PC.
I just cloned the drive from one to another. As soon as I did that I
could no longer get into Win 2000. I could not even re-install 2k
clean as it would fail, and crash. I eventually gave up and
concentrated on the XP PRO install. It is a clean install. No anti
virus, no firewall, no security stuff. I have fully patched XP and
installed IE7. I have the ATI All in wonder software installed and it
works fine.I have Nero 6 installed, but that is about it. It is a
clean and lean occasional use video recording machine.
Unfortunately, every time I try to burn something I blue screen and
crash. I have tried updating everything that can be updated including
Nvida nForce3 Chipset driver but it hasn't helped. I can't figure
out why I couldn't install 2K, and now I can't use my burner in XP
PRO...... just because I installed a SATA drive? There are six SATA
ports on this board so I can't believe the SATA drive has something
to do with it so it must have something to do with switching from
PATA boot to a PATA.
Can this be fixed or should I try a new install to sort it out?
My first experience with the NVIDIA chipset is reminiscent VIA...
and it is my last AMD / Nvidia setup!
thanks
