hey guys, i installed windows xp onto my old computer yesterday but am having some problems.
the specs are:
amd k6-2 333mhz
crap asus spaz motherboard (i dont know if its the right name, this is an HP computer) it has SIS 5598 chipset.
4mb onboard graphics
onboard sound
256mb sdram
quantum 8gb hard drive. TX8.0AT is the model.
24x cd-rom
currently running windwos xp professional sp1.
and its all running fine performance wise so dont go baggering me about needing more ram, faster processor etc.
now here is the problem: sometimes when i startup i get the found enw hardware thing at teh botom of the screen and it says it found new ide controllers, sis pci ide controller, primary ide channel, secondary ide channel. then the hard drive, and last the cd-rom. Finally it says that i need to restart for the changes to take effect, whether i do restart or not then next time i startup the computer is fine, but the next restart after that it does it all over again.
at first i thought it was a dodgy install so i reformatted again this time using fat32 rather than ntfs, as it will be easier shall i have to go back to win98.
SAME PROBLEM
i used to have xp running on this machine and didnt have any problems. there are no updates on the HP website, and this board is not listed on the asus website. I checked SIS for the 5598 chipset and found a driver but it wasnt for xp, i tried teh win2000 one but it didnt install.
finally i thought today of looking in the event viewer for anything helpful and i found an error that came up around the time i started up the computer...it was called atapi and says that device at IDE0 (hard drive right?) has an outdated firmware.
Ive looked around but cannot seem to find a firmware for quantum tx8.0at , anoyone got any ideas as to what the problem could be or where to find an up to date firmware for the hard drive?
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