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altis · 18-04-2005, 15:25

I've just been getting a friend out of the mire by re-installing XP on his PC. He managed to blow up his mobo (almost literally - one of the diodes tried to unsolder itself).

I sorted him a new mobo, processor and memory. The new mobo uses an Nvidia chipset but the old one is Via-based. XP refused to boot - even in safe mode!!!

So he bought a new disk drive too - a SATA one and we tried re-installing XP on that instead. Now, here's the rub, his version of XP home (SP1) doesn't support his SATA chip so we had to load on the drivers. The *only* place that XP will look for them is on the floppy!!!!!

Jeeeeez - and this is progress?

18-04-2005, 15:25	#13
altis Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Warrington ntl:81304 Altitude: 12m (and falling) Posts: 4,499	Re: Floppy Disk Drive I've just been getting a friend out of the mire by re-installing XP on his PC. He managed to blow up his mobo (almost literally - one of the diodes tried to unsolder itself). I sorted him a new mobo, processor and memory. The new mobo uses an Nvidia chipset but the old one is Via-based. XP refused to boot - even in safe mode!!! So he bought a new disk drive too - a SATA one and we tried re-installing XP on that instead. Now, here's the rub, his version of XP home (SP1) doesn't support his SATA chip so we had to load on the drivers. The only place that XP will look for them is on the floppy!!!!! Jeeeeez - and this is progress?