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First off, is it a fresh HD or an old one? If its fresh (new) its pretty straight forward but if its allready being used as a boot drive, well...... the partition has to be deleted and the setup again So is it a new HD????

With gateway and dell computers usally they only except ram provided by the vendor in question. Did you buy the ram from gateway????

Sorry all I figured out the prob. Basically I did no the correct muiltyplyer of voltage for the chip, The MB has a pile of Dip switches. So through trial and error I found one that worked given me an Athlon XP 2200+ on the bios readout. But Xp was not working than found out the setting was ment...

Sorry all I figured out the prob. Basically I did no the correct muiltyplyer of voltage for the chip, The MB has a pile of Dip switches. So through trial and error I found one that worked given me an Athlon XP 2200+ on the bios readout. But Xp was not working than found out the setting was ment...

I updated mp cpu on a giga-byte 7DRX F10a MB from AMD tunderbird 1.4ghz to an AMD atlon xp 2200+. After correcting the dip switches i rebooted. Its a duel boot system with XP and Win98. Win98 works fine. WinXp crashes after the first logo page and reboots the system. I booted up XP in safe...

I updated mp cpu on a giga-byte 7DRX F10a MB from AMD tunderbird 1.4ghz to an AMD atlon xp 2200+. After correcting the dip switches i rebooted. Its a duel boot system with XP and Win98. Win98 works fine. WinXp crashes after the first logo page and reboots the system. I booted up XP in safe...

The freeze method only works on older winchester disks and doesn't work on newish drives. Can the BIOS detect the drive?? There's allways a chance of recovering the drive but the Information well maybe. Oddjob

First off, The BIOS at the start up has to detect the drives. If their not detected here then WINXP won't detect them. So Reboot :) enter the setup and check the IDE detection. If not detected check the IDE lead is firmly attached and the jumper setting are correct. Hope this helps Oddjob

IBM Deskstars, Do they ever work right?? one HD (40g) with 2 partitions, (i) 82% 32g NTFS & (ii) 18% 8g Fat32 The NTFS partition has stopped working but Fat 32 works fine. If I boot up an NTFS OS system (w2k or XP) when the drive is attached, the OS fails to boot. It gets about half way...