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Yup, Ok lets go through a few things.....
I run a few PC's also.
My main PC is only 850mhz. And I run x2 80gb. I have no bios problems,
I am surprised your 900Mhz machnes does have issues with HD bios.
And NTFS is definatly the better way to go. Convert over as soon as your
systems are stable.
Also - It crashing the way it does - Would indicate to me (1st up anyway)
that you may have a Hardware IO fault in the ME machine.
Try dropping the speed of the HD transfer mode. It's under the bios settings.
What is it currently set to? This is very important - as slightly damaged
cables -
can disrupt the higher transfer rates. (Even a Kink in the cable can do this.)
If you find this helps the install - Perhaps Buy a couple of brand new cables.
and also run at lower xfer - for better reliability.
Try also putting some extra heatsinks on some of those chips on the
motherboard.
Go to Jaycar or Dicky's and pick up some small heatsinks and glue em on.
This is Australia - It does get Hot - And computers do go Pffft!
Be sure there is plenty of airflow in the PC cases.
And Check the Temperature of your running Harddrives. Feel them with your hand.
if they feel '"Hot" - then they are probably being damaged.
Upto "Pretty Warm" is ok.
If they start to get or are "Too Warm" then Load some heatsinks on them or
buy some HD Fan bays.
For me:
Turned out I had a faulty MB. The Chipset got a bit hot one day - Then
caused intermittant errors and crashes for the next couple of months -
Untill I realised the MB realy was screwed and pulled it!
Replaced for $70 and now runs great.
(May I suggest Jetaway MB as a good inexpencive but reliable MB.)
Other things that could be causing you grief (That you can check), Would be
RAM, Try pulling out half and swapping each stick in. Check the Contact
pins are clean - Use a Soft White rubber to clean them if not.
Don't go running round the carpet with socks on before you do this ;-)
HD/CD Cables, Both power and data cables. Make sure Power cables pins are
not streched (Female pins) causing loose power connections.
And kinks in Ultra ATA data cables can cause problems. Simply replace!!!
Lastly - No it should have nothing to do with the Volume types.
All the Best
Michael.
At 06:31 PM 19/12/2003, you wrote:
>Hoping for some computer wiz to help me here. Hope I can explain it
>properly.
>
>I run 2 computers one with winXP and the other winME
>
>I recently upgraded the drive in the ME computer with 80GB and had to
>partition to 2x40GB for the bios to recognise it due to the old age of the
>motherboard (I think) after all it is only 2-3 yrs old (900MHz chip thingy).
>I also added ram to 512MB.
>
>I wanted to change the operating system to XP but could not install XP onto
>it for some reason. It would not copy some files onto the hard drive and
>crashed or froze during the install process. ME installed ok, unfortunately
>it is too unstable for me to continue using it.
>
>Can anyone offer suggestion of what I can do to get XP onto it.
>I was reading about the hard drives and file system NTFS and FAT32. I was
>wondering if this could be a problem with XP as it states that XP is ok with
>FAT32 up to 32GB and not limited by NTFS. However winME cannot read NTFS
>drive volume so am hesitant about changing the fat32 to ntfs and have to
>reformat the drive to convert backwards.
>
>My main comp with XP has FAT32 volume, and due to the advantages of NTFS I
>thought of changing it but because the 2 copmps are networked I am not sure
>if it is good idea. Another problem I am experiencing that is pushing me to
>change ME to XP is that when I backup files to ME computer it freezes the
>other comp and my backup stops. Is this something to do with the volume
>type????
>
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