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> i wanna help you but your driving me crazy!
Mark, try to resist it.
Thanks for the letter,
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Brown" <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: A T A
>
> god look i bought the products i posted, i plugged them all in
the
> slots according to the instructions (total time 20 minutes), i
booted
> the computer hit the delete key to bring up the bios during the
boot
> routine. i then set the bios to boot from the cdrom instead of
the
> floppy, saved and exited. rebooted with the figgin win2000 cd in
the
> cup holder and it recognized that it needed to format the new
hard
> disk i selected to let it format and when it was through
win2000
> installed and poof! btw i built 3 of these no problems at all.
>
> i did not monkey around with partition magic or anything else, i
did
> not even use a floppy or disk of any kind other than the win2000 cd.
>
> next question, maybe some one is getting educated. i mean i knew i
was
> in trouble when you asked where the speaker, hd, and start
wires
> connected to the mother board. have you ever looked at the inside of
a
> computer before? i wanna help you but your driving me crazy! do
you
> know there are news groups for this? there are even seagate hard
drive
> news groups, please do not ask what is a news group, at least to me.
>
> your motherboard has the latest drivers and it needs no controller,
at
> all. maybe you messed with the dip pins on the mb and you need
to
> look in the manual to make sure they are at default. i did not
even
> mess with setting anything on the mother board. i bought that
mb
> because it had a soft menu, and i am stupid. in fact i bought
all
> those easy to use and well researched products because i was
stupid
> and had no time to go thru what you are now.
>
> to summarize, slap parts together, boot win2000 from cd and enjoy!
do
> you think i am jacking around with you, not telling you some secret?
i
> have spent more time now with you than i did to build the
three
> computers, are you resourceful enough to try another hard drive
and
> start eliminating one possibility at a time? or to ask for help in
a
> news group related to this? you should have bought a dell, dude.
>
> mb ect.
>
> other's may be tired of this but as long as you keep draggin me in
on
> the list i will post back to the list. when you have mailed
me
> privately i have mailed back privately, what do you think i will
tell
> you some secret if you expose me or something. think.
>
>
>
> Hello Igor,
>
> Friday, March 01, 2002, 4:46:44 PM, you wrote:
>
> IK> Hello Mark Brown
>
> IK> As I mentioned before this computer I am building from the
scratch and
> IK> all the details I will remember forever ...
>
> IK> Tell me, did you use or buy for your <<HD 60GB|SEAGATE
ST360021A>>
> IK> drive ATA controller card or did you go around it somehow?
> IK> Maybe this the problem that I am experiencing?
>
> IK> Val
>
>
> IK> ----- Original Message -----
> IK> From: "Mark Brown" <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> >> Hello ALL,
> >>
> >> reporting back i received my goods from www.newegg.com to
build
> IK> the
> >> following computer ..........
> >>
> >> MB> Item List Computer 1 Soltek SL-75DRV2
> >> MB> CPU FAN AMD|DBB WBK38 GLOBALWIN 19.00
> >> MB> ETHERNT LINKSYS|LNE100TX 10/100 v4 15.00
> >> MB> MB VIA KT266A|5P3D DDR 75DRV2 SLTK 99.00
> >> MB> CD ROM52X|SONY CDU5221 OEM 28.00
> >> MB> VGA VISIONTEK|GTS-V 32MB 65.00
> >> MB> CASE INWIN|IW-S500P.300F Mid BB 57.00
> >> MB> HD 60GB|SEAGATE ST360021A 116.00
> >> MB> CABLE HD|IDE ATA100 24" 3HD TEFLON 6.00
> >> MB> CPU AMD|1900+/266 ATHLON 1.6G XP 244.00
> >> MB> DDRAM 512MB|64X64 PC-2100 130.00
> >>
> >> MB> total 779.00
>
>
>
> --
>
> Have a Great Day, Mark
>
> http://www.markbrown.com
>
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