[SWLUG] *blush*

[Rhys Sage]

I seem to have solved my problems. As always they come
in six packs :p

The first problem was indeed the FSB which was set at
100 and should have been set at 266.

The second problem was that my gigabyte board was a
little fussy about where my drives were.

I'd been running my hard drive as a secondary master
with my ls120 as a secondary slave and my cdrom as a
primary slave - ie no primary master. That worked fine
for Linux but Windows played silly Bs because of it,
sometimes working and sometimes not.

Well, I have now put HDA as PM. Now I can't run Linux
until I get another caddy to put HDB in as SM. HDC
won't get used until XP is stable as I need to
transfer my old W98 files via my new PC to my server
(SME).

The plan with my new PC is fairly complex - it'll be a
dual use system (maybe more) with removable drives
(hence the caddies) so I can use Linux and Windows,
possibly BeOs too simply by taking one set of drives
out and replacing them with another. The plan does not
end there, however. While my PC currently has an
LS-120 (remember them from King Harold's days?) and
the usual drive quota, there's room for HDD 2 in a
caddy and for a DVD too.

Anyway, it transpires that it was a case of a
misplaced FSB and a drive in the wrong location. Well,
it's working right now - I hope it continues to do so.

interestingly, I bought Linux format a few months ago
with Mandrake 9.1 (which is on my old HDDa). Today,
wandering through Smiths I see the new Linux Format
has Mandrake 9.2.

I quite like Mandrake although some of the programs
seem to have some bugs. Maybe those "bugs" are
associated with the wrong location too?

Rhys

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