AMD Athlon XP 2800 ASRock K7S8XE Motherboard RADEON 9200 128 MB SE 1 512 MB Crucial DDR 2700 333 1 Western Digital 60 GB Hard Drive 2 Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drives And other misc. things. NOTE: This is stuff I have ordered, I haven't received everything yet. PS: Nobody ever answered my questions on cooling, are RAM heatsinks important to have? In my new case I currently have 4 fans; 1 PCI exhaust blower, a side panel window fan, a front case fan, and a CPU fan (as well as silver paste and a copper shim). Do I need any more cooling?
On the hard drive I'm posting from now I have XP installed. ME used to be installed but I reformatted and put XP on. I want to reformat but I cannot get my CD-ROM to read the XP disk so that I can reformat the hard drive. I went into BIOS and made CD-ROM primary boot device and restarted and booted up and still nothing. Is there another way to reformat a hard drive with XP on it?
1) Ram heatsinks.....not really necessary for DDR...as long as you have sufficient airflow thru the box, it should be fine without them.(unless you get into overclocking,which I dont recommend right now) 2) Installing XP by booting from floppy follow these directions http://www.computerhope.com/boot.htm#71 3) re:multiple hard drives. in my current windowz system I have 4 hard drives and a CD burner and a dvd burner...I have two of the hard drives and the burners on the onboard IDE channels, and the other two drives are running on a addon Promise IDE controller. AthlonXP 2600+ DFI AD77 Infinity 512M 2700DDR (2) WD 120G, WD 60G, Maxtor 120G Sony 40x CDRW NEC 4x DVD+R/RW ATI AIW Radeon 7500 tons of extra stuff...(my usb ports are stuffed )
Thanks R2K. The hard drive I'm trying to reformat is going to be the master on my new computer. I remember you saying something about when you update from an earlier edition of Windows to XP that people have been reporting lots of problems with this. I have a full edition of Windows XP but on the two hard drives I want to put in my computer they both have had 98 on them. Could I reformat the 98 hard drives and have one of them as a slave drive without any problem? As I understand it, XP will only need to be on my master hard drive and not on my slave and Windows will recognize my slave as just extra storage space. The concern is will any of the old 98 files interfere with XP?
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R2K, when reformatting a hard drive with XP which boot disk do I use. When I created one with the site you gave me Windows Xp made like 6 disks in all. I have each numbered but which do I use to do a reformat of the hard drive?
You should have to use the first disk in the set to use it to boot into a dos prompt. From there you can do a format off of that disk. Just curious, the XP that you have is it an upgrade of a full version? Very wierd that yours is not booting. Also if you have a series of disks it might just ask you to put in each disk one by one to install all the necessary startup files for the installation of XP. From there when you are doing the install it will ask you if you want to format the drive before installation.
I have Windows XP Pro, full version. I actually checked out an academic version when I went to Arkansas State University. I don't have that version anymore but I purchased a full version of XP Home. Anymore advice?
Pun, Starting with 2K, Windows uses a series of boot disks to load all the required drivers and other things that Windows needs to install with. no longer can you just boot from one disk and go to a dos prompt to reformat.... You are going to reinstall anyway...put the first disk in, make sure your computer is set to boot from floppy, and follow the onscreen prompts...at one point it will ask you how you want to do the formatting of the disks.
OK, since I'm going from XP Pro to XP Home, which boot disk do I need to make Pro or Home? So, what you're saying is restart the computer with the first disk in and then type the format command when A:/ DOS prompt comes up then once I have type that command the OS will tell me when to add the next disk?
Pro v Home.....doesnt matter boot disk-wise did you read my last post? you will never have to type format c at all during this process. stick first disk in....then when it prompts you to...put the next disk in....just follow the onscreen prompts...
Last questions before building my computer: How much thermal grease do I use and exactly where do I put it? Does the copper shim go between the motherboard and CPU or the CPU and the fan/heatsink and how does it go on? Also, my shim has a blue layer of what looks like plastic, should this peel off or be left on?
I found this website for thermal grease: http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm but it looks confusing and it seems you can damage your CPU very, very easily. Do you guys recommend this?
Peel the blue....or else it will melt all over it. Thermal grease is a must. You need to use enought to cover the small plate where the heatsink contacts the processor.
So does the website I posted offer a good analysis of doing this procedure? How easy is it to mess something up when doing this? What do you speak of when you refer to the "blue?"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ seems like the standard procedure for using thermal grease to me....just follow the directions and you should be fine. the only way you mess up your processor is if you just glob it on and dont do it right.. thermal grease is very necessary...
I read somewhere that copper shims cause problems. Is this true and do I really need a shim anyway? And I also read somewhere that some kind of wax material needs to be removed from the CPU, what is that?
