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80GB: Abit BH6 v.1.0

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 2:09 am
by hollowel
Any help is appreciated. I have an Abit BH6 motherboard v1.0 and my BIOS flashed with the latest BIOS upgrade flash ss. I bought a 80 gig Maxtor Hard Drive to upgrade my 10 gig drive and have been in upgrade HELL ever since. I used the MaxBlaster software to copy the drive and I keep getting the 80 I/O error message. Also I formatted the drive in DOS with fat32 and tried to do a new install of Windows XP and I keep getting a blue screen. I even went a spent $55 on an ATA controller card with the same thinng happening. I also exchanged the drive thinking that might be the problem. Not sure why I'm having all this trouble because my BIOS see's an 80 gig drive. I even followed Maxtors advice and configured the hard drive in the BIOS manually. Is there naything I can do to fix this problem? Do I have to spend $70 for the BIOS upgrade from esupport, or will that even help me.

I was really hoping to get by with a cheap HD upgrade on my system before I built a new one.

Thanks for your time

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 7:08 pm
by soupy
Ok, let me see if I understand.

1. You're running an Abit BH6 with the latest BIOS.

2. You're using an 80GB HDD with an add-on EIDE controller card, and you DON'T currently have the drive overlay software installed.

3. You can't install Windows XP.

Please correct anything I have wrong.

Anyhow, the HDD isn't the problem. XP probably hates either your motherboard or your RAM.

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 8:09 pm
by hollowel
Thanks for the reply. I've been running Windows XP on the smaller 10 gig drive on this system without problems. Also I took back the EIDE controller card because it didn't help any. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but, I have my bus speed running at 100MHz. Also is it OK to have a 80 gig partition using fat32?

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 8:17 pm
by Denniss
Better use smaller partitions on your driver for Fat32 or use a 16GB FAT-32 partition as your boot drive and configure the remaining space as a NTFS drive .

Please write down the entire error message you got and post it here .
Is your 80GB HDD configured as primary partition and set to active ?

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 10:39 pm
by hollowel
I'll go through the process again tonight to get the error messages. Also the drive I bought specs are Maxtor 80gig Ultra ATA/133 Data Transfer Rate and 7200 RPM. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Would I be better off buying Western Digital that has ATA/100? I know I configured it as the primary partition, but you do have me questioning myself if I made it active or not. I'll be sure to do all that again tonight. Thanks again for your help

Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 11:37 pm
by hollowel
Tried partitioning the drive to 16 gigs partitions using fat32 and it didn't work. Tried using NTFS and I still get the same error.

Basically during the install of the OS at the part where windows starts to copy files to the hard drive it crashes. Sometimes I'll get a error message saying "can't copy file somefile.sys. Would you like to try again?" When I say try again it crashes. Most of the time I don't get that message it just crashes. The error message is a page long but goes something like this: "Windows has shutdown to prevent damage to your computer. page_fault_error_in_nonpage_fault_area. The file that seems to be causing the error is setupdd.sys *followed by a bunch of technical*"

I have tried 3 install CD's which one was a virgin with the same results.

Should I just take a baseball bat to my system?

Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 11:46 pm
by Rainbow
Bad memory? Test using GoldMemory http://www.goldmemory.cz

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 1:15 am
by hollowel
Thanks Rainbow but my memory tested good. I hate to be beaten by a computer but, it looks like I have spent enough time on this. One last question.... What would be a safe sized hard drive that I could buy that would work? ON there web site they mention they have tested up to a 40 gig drive (my bios upgrade link) the NV bios id is the one that mentions it. I hope my question isn't too stupid.

I want to thank all that have replied to me.

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 1:00 pm
by Rainbow
That drive should work with the latest BIOS for the board. Backup all data first. Remove all add-in controller cards. Connect the drive to onboard IDE, auto-detect it in the BIOS. Download the Maxtor diagnostic software, boot from that floppy and execute full test to make sure that the drive is OK.
Then boot from DOS/Win9x floppy (or install CD), run "FDISK /MBR" to remove any overlay software, then run FDISK and remove all paritions. Then boot from the Windows XP install CD and let it partition and format the drive.