Tholek
15-07-2006 08:03:05
To my knowledge, you have to format and partition ANY new HD. I'd even do that to ones that may come pre-set up like that. (Unless there were software on it)
cwncool
15-07-2006 08:32:21
if you've already installed it, did you leave your installation disk in?
dmorris68
15-07-2006 08:33:18
The format is part of the Windows install process. Setup won't continue without formatting if the drive isn't already formatted.
I have a dual-core Opteron on an NForce4 SLI32 (S939) board and don't need SATA drivers during install for stand-alone (non-RAID) drives, since the chipset handles them as native IDE devices. The 590 being a newer chipset, I would expect the same, but I must confess since building this last rig, I haven't kept up on the new Nvidia AM2 chipsets.
Even if you didn't have the right drivers, Setup shouldn't crash, it should just tell you that it cannot find any HDD's.
I posted my dilemma at [H]ardForums and it [i1ecac219da]was[/i1ecac219da] my ram.
http//hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1029689182#post1029689182
I had put it in the wrong slot.
Well, now that I felt I was in the home stretch, I'm being plagued by BSODs again.
It gets to the "Setup is copying files" stage and I get a bunch of BSODs and it tells me that it can't copy some files before that happens. I checked the ram with memtest again and it's doing fine.
I keep getting
STOP 0x0000008E
STOP0x00000050
STOP 0x000000D1
Anyone know what I might need to check now?