Well, at first I thought it was the memory. After an unfair trade, I might be wrong. Then it's the PSU, and no. Then the motherboard, wrong again(but the MSI 845PE\/Neo does have a working FDD controller, unlike the old one with the machine). Then the only defected suspects left are the ATI video card and the 200GB HDD. I am not able to find the replacement for such to test them out. So, I could only wonder. Since I had bad experience with ATI products, I started to doubt it's ATI.<\/p>\n
But this doubt leads to a dead end. So I had only the choice of eliminating the HDD being a suspect. All the test, and finally, I switched cables with DVD-ROM, seems to install right this time.<\/p>\n
All this is about a HDD cable? The pevious one does seem bent at more places than the one now.<\/p>\n
One problem with this new mobo is the reset button. Don't seem to reset. Just blank. Turns off instead. But this is less crucial.<\/p>\n
[@more@]Well, looks like it's the ATI card. But when I put the original one back after installing Windows XP, everything works fine. Hope this is for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, at first I thought it was the memory. After an unfair trade, I might be wrong. Then it's the PSU, and no. Then the motherboard, wrong again(but the MSI 845PE\/Neo does have a working FDD controller, unlike the old … Continue reading