very true indeed fylon. looking at all the news and reviews of new stuff always so mouth-watering.
Most disappointing part is seeing the price, and then seeing how much that's in our pocket

yeah edmin, i'm always lurking around there too to see if there's anything nice to grab

yeah, life's good man..having a long semester break now, gonna end in a few weeks time though
i wonder what those guys do for a living..always able to keep up with tech
2x F3 on RAID? i just got one for myself, waiting for it to arrive at my doorstep..still thinking whether should i sell off my 2xWD and get one more F3 or exchange 1 of the WD so that i can RAID them..both the WDs are different models..

how do you adjust the timings on a lappy? normally you dont get to see those settings in the BIOS rite?

@fylon
lol that's a whole lot of storage! sure full with 1080p movies
yeah read lots of good reviews and feedbacks about the F3, and cheap too..then decided to get it. waiting for SSDs to get cheaper, might wanna try a cheap one for my OS

@shinjite
i see, seems quite a handy program
you bought the deneb+mobo for how much?

@fylon
still using the D9's that you offered me last time? or is this a new pair?

my 1TB also just arrived today by kangaroo. but cant use coz i dont have extra sata cable

edmin where are u from?
not in KL now actually, back in Ipoh for holidays

@edmin
i wouldn't mine postage
but i'm already getting it from garage sales already
thanks anyway

i heard there are many driver issues with it on windows 7, is it true?

what kind of problem?

what problem is it?

it's not detected in the BIOS itself already right? if yes, means it wouldn't be drivers or OS problem already

Did you try checking this 4 sections?

>Standard CMOS Features
>Advanced BIOS Features
>Advanced Chipset Features
>Integrated Peripherals

Boot sequence or the SATA controller settings should be somewhere around there. Can check at Standard CMOS Features section to see if the hdd is detected

if not mistaken the fastest is 3.6GHz. there's also 3.2GHz, but those are quite hard to find. more commonly found is 3.0GHz

are those hdds listed as primary master/slave and secondary on SATA or IDE?

there might be a possibility that the SATA controller is dead. My friend had a P4 mobo too, and the IDE controllers just went dead for no reason. Couldn't detect any devices on either ports.

have you tested the hard disks on another pc? as i mentioned above, suspect that the sata controller on your mobo is dead

wow, didnt expect the sata problem to affect all users of that board. it's weird that there are no fix or updates to that problem

@v12,
hdd so fast ko d? excessive downloading?

guys, my friend's pc has this problem. it's cant boot, and once i took out all the IDE cables, it can boot. When i use different cables, sometimes it boots sometimes it does not. However when it does boot, the IDE hard disks and CD-ROM cant be detected. Could it be that the IDE port / chip KO-ed?

yes, POST. pins on the connector? yeah they are all intact. Even tried with a new cable, can't detect also.

and there's another problem. When using a stick of 512MB ram, it doesn't boot. when i use another stick, it boots. Sign of motherboard gonna KO also?

same problem. doesnt boot. i suspect that the ram is faulty already, but i dont have other systems to test the 512MB ram on. i think the mobo is gonna KO too

i send it to shop for troubleshooting, coz after a few days the pc couldn't even boot up. mobo is confirmed faulty. dont know whether to get a cheap 2nd hand replacement, or might as well just get a newer platform 2nd hand set, maybe like 775 or AM2