First post, by deleted_Rc
This rig seems to enjoy giving me headaches..... 😢
This mobo is hell to work with, after finally thinking I got it stability.... having issues with either hard drives, mobo or software. Few days ago my computer was running Windows 98SE stabil but after rebooting it always hanged at splash screen (not even safe mode or other modes want to boot). First I tried fixing the MBR which failed, so I decided upon a fresh install, here the problems started.
So I started out with fdisk and set a new primary DOS drive so I cold format the disk, this went all fine until windows started copying files to the hdd and hangs (tried 3 times), so I tried the secondary ide just incase, this time the mobo would not even properly format (installer said incompatible format after second format and requests reset.)
Guessed my hd was broken, it's a Samsung 10 Gb HDD which had 0 corrupted sectors as of last scan last week. Still possible though so I ordered a NOS wd 40 gb ide hd hoping it would solve the problem. It arrived today and the mobo couldn't detect this HD in neither ide device set at cable select limited to 32Gb in jumper settings with no other ide device present. Tried different jumper but no luck, when bios wants to detect the HD it hang and needs reboot.
Can anyone help, this is beyond my knowledge.