I installed a new power supply in the computer and it made no difference. I had the same problems in the same places. Initially, I disconnected everything and tried the new power supply with only the video card, and SATA RAID0 boot array. No Go. It would boot just fine. Added the DVD/RW but True Image would still not see the array. Added the 750 GB WD SATA II drive and the system froze at the nVidia boot screen. Adding a Sil3132 pcie-x1 controller with the 750 GB WD attached and the system booted fine. Added the JMicron pcie-X1 controller and the rest of the drives and the system would boot just fine.
Tried to boot to True Image and it could see only 1 drive. Moved the drive to a different controller, and True Image could still only see that one drive. This is suspicious that the location of the drive is unimportant. True Image can see it and not any other drive regardless of the controller. May be a True Image problem after all. Will try re-installing and creating a new recovery disk. Did some investigation on the purchase of a new socket 939 that will accept the Opteron 185. The only ones I could find were either VERY expensive server boards, or some ~$100 Tyan and Asus server boards at Newegg. The reviews were less than perfect, although some people raved about the boards, other had boot problems and other indicated the board layout precluded using a large HSF and pcie-X16 video board. So, does anyone have any more suggestions or observations? Or is there an Intel core 2 duo in my future? Thanks, Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
