Life in the old dog
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:25 amThere seems to be a lot of hard drive problems around at the mo, commiserations fozzer and micheal.
Likewise with me......hard drive went down some while ago, at the time I thought it was possible malicious software. It wouldn't even boot in safe mode, bummer. As my machine is quite old (very old) I really couldn't be bothered sorting it out.....That's also why I haven't been around for a while.
Spec:
Asus a7n8x deluxe 2 mobo
Athlon xp 3000+
3 gig ram
Nvidia geforce 7300 gt
....anyway, I finally got around to sorting it out and I thought I'd post the progress here, as encouragment for prospective simmers who may have old rigs thinking "it's not worth it"....
The bad hd in question was a 70 gig maxtor ide thingy. I had a look through the mobo manual and noticed that it had 2 sata sockets so I purchased a 500gig western digital sata drive. ...The problems I had getting the PC to recognise it took days to sort out, it would not boot from sata. I had to go through dozens of possible bios upgrades to find one that would work.
In the end I reformatted and reinstalled the old ide hard drive and used that for the OS. I eventually found an "uber bios" but the sata drive still wouldn't work consistently, one minute it was there, next it would disappear
Likewise with me......hard drive went down some while ago, at the time I thought it was possible malicious software. It wouldn't even boot in safe mode, bummer. As my machine is quite old (very old) I really couldn't be bothered sorting it out.....That's also why I haven't been around for a while.
Spec:
Asus a7n8x deluxe 2 mobo
Athlon xp 3000+
3 gig ram
Nvidia geforce 7300 gt
....anyway, I finally got around to sorting it out and I thought I'd post the progress here, as encouragment for prospective simmers who may have old rigs thinking "it's not worth it"....
The bad hd in question was a 70 gig maxtor ide thingy. I had a look through the mobo manual and noticed that it had 2 sata sockets so I purchased a 500gig western digital sata drive. ...The problems I had getting the PC to recognise it took days to sort out, it would not boot from sata. I had to go through dozens of possible bios upgrades to find one that would work.
In the end I reformatted and reinstalled the old ide hard drive and used that for the OS. I eventually found an "uber bios" but the sata drive still wouldn't work consistently, one minute it was there, next it would disappear
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