I have sent my 8790 off for repairs and should be back soon (ups 2day up, 48 hr turnover, then ups 2day back). The headphone jack was broken and the powerbrick was overheating to the point of necessitating action (not just hot but air distortion: heat waves).
As part of my privacy, I always reformat the hard drive before sending one off to be serviced. I re-installed Windows and had all of the problems others in this section have been having, but with some additional ones too.
1) RAID:
I could not install Windows, so I remembered about the dip switches and moved them back to ATA. The odd thing is, if I only had one drive to begin with, how could they have installed Windows? I also disabled USB ports 29 et. all (see USB below). So Windows installed, end of install story.
So, I want another hard drive and will get one next month. I would like to have RAID 0. Unfortunately, no one else in this section seems to have had any luck getting RAID to work. I looked at the manual, and the instruction seem rather clear, but the issues with "slipstreaming" (???), USB floppies not working, etc; I have yet to read of a success story yet.
So, could someone please reply with the exact steps and equipment used with settings they used to successfully enable and install RAID 0 with two drives.
2) USB:
After successfully installing Windows and following the manual for the order of driver installation. I now have issues with my USB ports.
WTF? Whenever Windows starts it tells my that my Hi-Speed Web Cam (internal) is connected to a non-Hi-Speed port and to please remove it and put it into a HI-Speed port. Well, since it is internal..., I can't very well remove it and try again, duh. Ok, so I look up in the manual on USB ports and it tells that in order to enable "HI-SPEED Mode" I have to go under Device Manager to unistall the drivers for the USB controllers and reboot. The computer will then re-install drivers for USB 2.0 in hi-speed mode. I tried it, the drivers were reinstalled, and no luck and now the message keeps popping up over and over and over again. Make it stop please!
3) ATA hard drives:
Now that my single drive is in ATA mode via dip switches, my boot time has increased by about 2 minutes as during the boot process the cursor rotates under a message stating "detecting drives" and sits there for about 60 seconds and finally kicks out and briefly flashes a message listing non-existant drives - "not detected" and the last item is the Hitatchi hard drive in UDMA mode 5 ATA drive, and then boots normally. How do I shorten the detection time or remove it entirely? Under BIOS it says under IDE that the settings cannot be altered in User Mode. This is why I want RAID, so the boot time will go back to normal. Stock out of the box, it listed the one drive as RAID 0+1 and booted in seconds. Now it sits there and waits for manual drive detection. Aaaarg! Help please!
It should be noted that my notebook is 7 days away, but I'd like help before then.
As part of my privacy, I always reformat the hard drive before sending one off to be serviced. I re-installed Windows and had all of the problems others in this section have been having, but with some additional ones too.
1) RAID:
I could not install Windows, so I remembered about the dip switches and moved them back to ATA. The odd thing is, if I only had one drive to begin with, how could they have installed Windows? I also disabled USB ports 29 et. all (see USB below). So Windows installed, end of install story.
So, I want another hard drive and will get one next month. I would like to have RAID 0. Unfortunately, no one else in this section seems to have had any luck getting RAID to work. I looked at the manual, and the instruction seem rather clear, but the issues with "slipstreaming" (???), USB floppies not working, etc; I have yet to read of a success story yet.
So, could someone please reply with the exact steps and equipment used with settings they used to successfully enable and install RAID 0 with two drives.
2) USB:
After successfully installing Windows and following the manual for the order of driver installation. I now have issues with my USB ports.
WTF? Whenever Windows starts it tells my that my Hi-Speed Web Cam (internal) is connected to a non-Hi-Speed port and to please remove it and put it into a HI-Speed port. Well, since it is internal..., I can't very well remove it and try again, duh. Ok, so I look up in the manual on USB ports and it tells that in order to enable "HI-SPEED Mode" I have to go under Device Manager to unistall the drivers for the USB controllers and reboot. The computer will then re-install drivers for USB 2.0 in hi-speed mode. I tried it, the drivers were reinstalled, and no luck and now the message keeps popping up over and over and over again. Make it stop please!3) ATA hard drives:
Now that my single drive is in ATA mode via dip switches, my boot time has increased by about 2 minutes as during the boot process the cursor rotates under a message stating "detecting drives" and sits there for about 60 seconds and finally kicks out and briefly flashes a message listing non-existant drives - "not detected" and the last item is the Hitatchi hard drive in UDMA mode 5 ATA drive, and then boots normally. How do I shorten the detection time or remove it entirely? Under BIOS it says under IDE that the settings cannot be altered in User Mode. This is why I want RAID, so the boot time will go back to normal. Stock out of the box, it listed the one drive as RAID 0+1 and booted in seconds. Now it sits there and waits for manual drive detection. Aaaarg! Help please!
It should be noted that my notebook is 7 days away, but I'd like help before then.
