Maybe I should have "gotten a Dell man"

**Bing Fung** · 16 March 2002, 01:32 Saturday

Lex if you just transfered your drives from your Tyan over to the Asus, I suspect that's the problem. It is recommended to install fresh for a new mobo.

Good luck buddy

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Bing

**Lex** · 16 March 2002, 01:54 Saturday

Bing, you didn't listen. :twisted: :LOL: Different day, different computer. Tyan is in the back bedroom or as I call it, the computing junkyard. This was a fresh install, with a clean reformat from the Abit gone bad system. Different drives, different computer.

Lex

**Bing Fung** · 16 March 2002, 02:48 Saturday

:twisted: :P oK , My Bad (what a corny statement :? )

Alright Lex, I'm starting to think you to be the Schelp Rock of PC kompu'tin :cry:

Bing

**Andrew Pratt** · 16 March 2002, 10:54 Saturday

I'd suggest booting into dos mode from a floppy and run a full surface scan of the drive and see if it finds any errors. Lets eliminate that variable first.

**Bing Fung** · 16 March 2002, 12:01 Saturday

Lex, have a read here and see if this helps

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/lostdely.htm

Don't know about the USB thing, is your bios uptodate?

Bing

**Lex** · 16 March 2002, 18:05 Saturday

Hey guys, thanks for the added suggestions. Andrew, always the checker.

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I laughed when you said you were color coding your boxes, :LOL:

Ok, all jabs aside, I reloaded everything from scratch, like to never got past getting it reformatted. Strange really. I think maybe the second drive attached was a problem, though I don't know for sure.

First I tried a W2K repair, well, that failed miserably. I tried to do a check disk from inside W2K, and heck, it wouldn't even proceed. I couldn't find my W98 boot disc, dang housekeeper must have hid it from me, lol. Finally, after exausting 2 computers, I remembered my daughter's was a straight 98 install, and should do the trick. So, I made a new disc, disconnected the second drive, and AFTER repartitioning in the W2K install procedure first, was able to reformat. Whew!

Things have went quite a bit smoother. There's still a nagging problem of if you move the mouse before something stops working when installing software. (hourglass) It seems to lock up tight. I don't know why. basically, I was VERY careful not to move it while she was working, and got through satellite install, Pagemaker, Photoshop, and Eudora. I now have the NIC installed, and am connected with Matrixx2. If I was able to connect to Matrixx1, that would be a real trick, since the mobo is somewhere between here and KY. :LOL: MatrixxMobile isn't on the Lexnet right now, so can't connect there.

Anyway, things are a little better now, fingers crossed, she stays bandaged together until I get Matrixx1 back online with a new Mobo. I could have used Matrixx2. But she's destined for my daughter, and trying to get away from her, though I have a lot of stuff on her E drive.

Lex

**Trevor Schell** · 16 March 2002, 22:03 Saturday

Man ,,Lex you are the MotherBoard Upgrade King!!!
I can't keep track of you anymore!,,
Go Lex Go!!! :P :P

OK,,I agreee,,,go with a Dell,,Man!

Trevor
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**Lex** · 17 March 2002, 00:36 Sunday

Well, sometimes fate just makes it that way Trev, lol. I mean I had this system sitting here with dual 40 gig drives, 512 meg of ram, and the Abit board that was a problem. So, I got the A7N266 and installed it a month or so ago and just didn't do anything else to it at that point.

I don't know what happened during this install, but apparently there was a HD sector error, or something that caused the problems. But she seems stable now!

Lex

Maybe I should have "gotten a Dell man"

Maybe I should have "gotten a Dell man"

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