RedOpsWolverine
Technical User
I recently went to work on a PC for my Fiance's boss.
When I started working on the PC the symtoms were lockups on bootup and harddrive clicking (stalling) with the error message at bootup the there may be bad sectors on the drive. This system is about 7mnths old.
The system is a Duron 700 with Nvida 32 card and 128MB memory with Windows 98 SE loaded on a WD 20 ATA66mhz drive. Problem: It had intergrated sound that the Builder had disabled and stuck in a SBLive Value, for no apparent reason, and charged for. Even put electrical tape on the Integrated sound plugin ports. Also..Instead of running the Liteon CD-Rom on Secondary IDE he slaved it off the WD Hardrive on the ATA 66 special cable instead of putting in a second ATA 33 cable on the secondary and running the CD-Rom there.
Now he wants to say that he disagrees that it is wrong to setup the PC the way he did and refuses to fix it. The guy doesn't even relize the Motherboard will run PC133 and he put PC 100 in the system.
I have seen systems not even boot or even burn up a CD or HD because of this SLAVE mistake instead of running ATA 33. You can't run CD-ROMs on ATA 66 or 100 yet.
Care to express your opinion?
When I started working on the PC the symtoms were lockups on bootup and harddrive clicking (stalling) with the error message at bootup the there may be bad sectors on the drive. This system is about 7mnths old.
The system is a Duron 700 with Nvida 32 card and 128MB memory with Windows 98 SE loaded on a WD 20 ATA66mhz drive. Problem: It had intergrated sound that the Builder had disabled and stuck in a SBLive Value, for no apparent reason, and charged for. Even put electrical tape on the Integrated sound plugin ports. Also..Instead of running the Liteon CD-Rom on Secondary IDE he slaved it off the WD Hardrive on the ATA 66 special cable instead of putting in a second ATA 33 cable on the secondary and running the CD-Rom there.
Now he wants to say that he disagrees that it is wrong to setup the PC the way he did and refuses to fix it. The guy doesn't even relize the Motherboard will run PC133 and he put PC 100 in the system.
I have seen systems not even boot or even burn up a CD or HD because of this SLAVE mistake instead of running ATA 33. You can't run CD-ROMs on ATA 66 or 100 yet.
Care to express your opinion?