Maxtor HD giving me trouble!
Maxtor HD giving me trouble!
NF4 Expert is the board, and 320gb Maxtor Diamondmax is the drive. When I am sent to the partition page while attempting to install windows it constantly hangs up... Anyone know of any issues right off the bat?
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Orange slots work best....furthest from cpu is even better.....
Make sure to disabe the silicon image controller and raid is disabled on the nForce4 chip.....
Check-out this thread @ DFI forums mayby this could be the prob
That board is very picky with ram....It will pass superpi 32M, dual prime95 and memtest86 and still give bsod's....it requires alot of patience (believe me)
Try with 1 stick of ram and set loose timings.....(auto with this board still means tight timings!)
Once you've formatted and installed, then start tweaking
Make sure to disabe the silicon image controller and raid is disabled on the nForce4 chip.....
Check-out this thread @ DFI forums mayby this could be the prob
That board is very picky with ram....It will pass superpi 32M, dual prime95 and memtest86 and still give bsod's....it requires alot of patience (believe me)
Try with 1 stick of ram and set loose timings.....(auto with this board still means tight timings!)
Once you've formatted and installed, then start tweaking
According to Maximum PC, the Maxtor DiamondMax has a firmware issue that prevents it from operating properly with nForce4
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