XFI and Vista

Not sure why I did it but I had difficuylty with your drivers from teh web down loads so I purchesed your cd and had it rushed to me for 24.00 after paying what I paid for my card from creative and now paying to get new drivers I am disatisfied beyond belief at creative. From what I have read I am not alone. The CD software will not install I get an error before I even begin and the nightmare continues. Not sure what to do i think that I amy need to look at an alternate card source for all of my PCs from now on and stay away from creative. i have had my card for 6 months and nothing but trouble and limited functionality since day one. It is so hard to get support and the forum is not support. How do you get ahold of someone from this company to discuss individual problems so that you do not have to sift through a see of confusion?If your from creative andare interested in helping me past these problems with your hard ware and software let me know how to reach you.

You can contact Support via email by clicking "Support" and "Contact Customer Support." Let them know your issues and they should be able to help out. Alternati'vely there is the Creative Tutor service, also available on the Support page.
Good luck,
Dale

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Xfi and vista nothing but sta

My older system broke awhile back and i built a new one, i was using on board HD audio but today i decided to put my old xfi card in my new system. I didnt put it in there in the first place cause drivers sucked and they havent updated them since may 30th so no change there. :P
Anyways my problem is kinda strange. After i install the driver and it asks for reboot i can say no and then play some music and it sounds great highs lows its all good. But after reboot its just static, starts right after the os loads. If i play music or games theres nothing but static and its very loud I almost had a stroke the first time. So some help plz?

specs
Asus p5k deluxe/wifi
intel Q6600 quad core
4gigs ddr800
nvidia 8800gtx
850wat silverstone psu
xfi xtreme music
vista 64bit

I belive that I have a unique problem with my xfi and 5.1 speakers

I wanted to have eax the other day so i bought sb xfi with front panel. I was happy. I installed the card (pci version) and my onboard sound card gone away. And i was sad . But i told myself you ve got the new and shiny sound blaster, not to worry everything ll be find. It wasnt. Since i have a 5. cambridge dtt 3500 and an optical cable as only connection i was forced to buy either a new sound card or a motherboard in order to have that socket in my pc. First as said earlier i bought the sound card. I plugged it in and, only two channels ware playing. I went and did some research about that problem and I found out that the optical socket doesnt have 5. support. SO I BOUGHT A NEW MOTHERBOARD (oh, my wallet sniff sniff ;( ) New asrock x38 turbo twins without wifi. It had just what i needed. An optical socket. I plugged all the wires to the motherboard and there was a time for a speakers test. SUCCES! Speakers sounded beautifully in 5. . And i was happy again. So the time to lunch some games came. And i installed some that have eax support. Then i was denied my beloved feature and my frustration grew. Some time passed and i gave my xfi another chance. BUT NOW it seems to have some problems because earlier it had multiple connection options in my windows's vista x64 speaker connection box. Now there are only 3. One because i changed my graphics to radeon 5850 and therefor it has nati've hdmi support (currently using that one), one for speakers from xfi and one for spdif out. I ve installed the drivers correctly and now they're updating. I ve plugged in into front panel head phone jack and microphone jack and it doesnt seem to noticed. I dont have that gamer/music/entertainment console thingy. The creative support faq was little help to me because i didnt get what they wanted me to buy and on forums i ve read that either i should buy an external decoder for God? know how much or do some modding into my speakers for multiple line sound sending and since i just want to enable eax in games and have 5. sound Im not keen on any moding or another buying spree. So please help me enable those features using my motherboard or xfi, any help ll be much appreciated.
PS: I let you know how it goes after the update.

optical is only going to give those speakers 5. on content that is encoded in dolby digital. That is pretty much limited to dvd's. You either have to use Dolby Digital Li've when converts everything to Dolby Digital or use the analog connections. If you are using a X-Fi you can buy or use a optical cable and buy the <a target="_self" rel="nofollow" href="http://buy.soundblaster.com/_creativelabsstore/cgi-bin/pd.cgi?page=product_detail&category=Software&pid=F 2222DDN6Z2H2ADDEZD">Dolby Digital Li've Pack. The analog way will cause you way less headaches. In the Playback tab of the Windows Vista sound panel there should only be 3 options there. ATI HDMI, Speakers, SPDIF. All the other connections you saw were in the Recording tab. If those are being detected it's most likely because the pins on the front bay aren't aligned correctly. If you installed the drivers from the website none of the other software is included with it and you have to download it seperately. You can still change modes with the Creative Audio Control Panel. That should be in the Creative listing in the programs menu. If you want to enable EAX you have to download and install Alchemy for games that use the Directsound3D engine. Games that use the OpenAL engine don't need it. Here is a <a target="_self" rel="nofollow" href="http://connect.creativelabs.com/alchemy/Lists/Games/AllItems.aspx">list of games[/url] that require alchemy to work.

PAX PCI XFI XP-Vista V1.05

PAX PCI XFI XP-Vista V.05
Creative all rights be long to Creative and logos. Creative giving me there writing persimmon by Robert McClelland.
PAX related logos and software and drivers are own by PAX
- Please don't remod my work with out permission you can contact me at Hardwareheaven.com
Celebrating
5 years of PAX drivers.
- XP/Vista/Win7 32/64Bit - Read me
PAX
Performance Audio Xeleration
Tweaked Drivers for Creative Soundcards:
Better Performance. Better Audio. Better Xeleration.
Tweaked Edition
Supported cards:
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatalty Professional Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatalty Champion Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Sound Blaster X-Fi XFI Xtreme Gamer Fataity pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatalty
Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi OEM Elite Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi
Soundblaster X-Fi OEM Cards: Dell, HP and Gateway
Setup should work with any XFI Card now!
UHAA FULL Support now.
Supported OS:
Fully working Driver for XP, Vista, Win7
32 and 64Bit
Based on:
SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_8_005_5
+ Updated tweak settings 2/7/0
Fix Double tweak in Microphone Setting.
Fix SideRight and Sideleft tweak instead of RightSide and Left Side
Important :
Before installing, remove all traces of any previous x-fi drivers and all x-fi driver by removing the driver within "Device Manager". To clean up any excess files left on your system, you should use a 3rd party program to do this job (unless you've a good understanding of the registry) A recommended program to do this is Driver Sweeper - which is freeware, and available from http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/ or paid version at hardwareheaven.com driver cleaner.net
To install the software driver :
Providing you've followed the steps above, restart your computer and run Setup.exe. Follow through the prompts until the installation has completed.
Please used register cleaner like tune up Advanced SystemCare iobit.com or crapcleaner
What is Pax?
Formally known as Youpax, Pax was founded by Robert McClelland 5 years ago, who is continuing to provide an alternati've tweaked driver to the Official driver released by Creative.
Why should I install this Pax alternati've?
Pax is aimed at improving sound quality and to give a more deeper bass sound, while retaining the clarity of the overall output audio. Most users continue to use Pax drivers once moving over and never look back!
For support, feedback and latest driver updates, please visit : http://www.hardwareheaven.com/pax-drivers/
http://www.technewshw.com/forum/index.php
http://forums.guru3d.com/
PAX 2005-200
Happy Holiday Everyone.

PAX PCI XFI XP-Vista V.05
Creative all rights be long to Creative and logos. Creative giving me there writing persimmon by Robert McClelland.
PAX related logos and software and drivers are own by PAX
- Please don't remod my work with out permission you can contact me at Hardwareheaven.com
Celebrating
5 years of PAX drivers.
- XP/Vista/Win7 32/64Bit - Read me
PAX
Performance Audio Xeleration
Tweaked Drivers for Creative Soundcards:
Better Performance. Better Audio. Better Xeleration.
Tweaked Edition
Supported cards:
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatalty Professional Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatalty Champion Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Sound Blaster X-Fi XFI Xtreme Gamer Fataity pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatalty
Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi OEM Elite Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi
Soundblaster X-Fi OEM Cards: Dell, HP and Gateway
Setup should work with any XFI Card now!
UHAA FULL Support now.
Supported OS:
Fully working Driver for XP, Vista, Win7
32 and 64Bit
Based on:
SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_8_005_5
+ Updated tweak settings 2/7/0
Fix Double tweak in Microphone Setting.
Fix SideRight and Sideleft tweak instead of RightSide and Left Side
Important :
Before installing, remove all traces of any previous x-fi drivers and all x-fi driver by removing the driver within "Device Manager". To clean up any excess files left on your system, you should use a 3rd party program to do this job (unless you've a good understanding of the registry) A recommended program to do this is Driver Sweeper - which is freeware, and available from http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/ or paid version at hardwareheaven.com driver cleaner.net
To install the software driver :
Providing you've followed the steps above, restart your computer and run Setup.exe. Follow through the prompts until the installation has completed.
Please used register cleaner like tune up Advanced SystemCare iobit.com or crapcleaner
What is Pax?
Formally known as Youpax, Pax was founded by Robert McClelland 5 years ago, who is continuing to provide an alternati've tweaked driver to the Official driver released by Creative.
Why should I install this Pax alternati've?
Pax is aimed at improving sound quality and to give a more deeper bass sound, while retaining the clarity of the overall output audio. Most users continue to use Pax drivers once moving over and never look back!
For support, feedback and latest driver updates, please visit : http://www.hardwareheaven.com/pax-drivers/
http://www.technewshw.com/forum/index.php
http://forums.guru3d.com/
PAX 2005-200
Happy Holiday Everyone.

Windows XP Pro (32-bit) and Vista Ultimate (64-bit) on the same Mac Pro HD?

Has anyone been able to install both Windows XP Pro (32-bit) and Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) on the same dedicated Windows hard drive? I have four HD in my Mac Pro, and one of them is dedicated for Windows (and bootable via Boot Camp). I found the following technical articles about installing Windows XP & Vista on the same hard drive (using two separate partitions) using a VMWare machine as the test system:
http://apcmag.com/howto_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystepguide.htm
http://apcmag.com/howto_dualboot_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_withscreenshots.htm
Has anyone successfully installed Windows XP (32-bit) and Vista 64-bit) on the same NTFS partition?
I already have Windows XP Pro (32-bit) SP3 installed on my single NTFS hard drive. I am looking for the best way to add the Vista 64-bit installation on the same hard drive.
Any thoughts and advise are appreciated.

Windows has its own list of boot OSs, and default, from msconfig. It will sit and wait for xx-seconds on startup in Windows if you want to boot from an alternate.
As to whether Apple's OS Switcher (aka startup disk bootcamp control panel or tray icon) sees both, I had Windows Home Premium and Ultimate 64, and pretty sure OS X saw both. That was pre-Leopard and before there were 64-bit Apple drivers.
I can't think of any scenerio of wanting to mix 32-bit and 64-bit on the same paritition, you realize you can't install the one over the other and must do a clean install.
When I added a partition out of main partition (I wanted to put search index and page file on their own partition) those partitions aren't seen - are hidden - to Leopard.

Problem with standby and Vista

Hi!
I've a problem with my X61 with the Turbo Memory and Vista x64: When I install the driver for Turbo Memory, I cannot resume from standby. The notebook does only a "normal" reboot.
Can anybody help me with this problem?
scw

well after a lengthy talk with many microsoft reps i found something. I was an updated version of this "WUDfrd.sys" file. But the problem was that i could not see a download link. but after a little while i convinced microsoft to give it to me. at first it looked like it had potential but after i restarted, every went down the plug hole. here is the link that i was talking about.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933607/en-us
problem still not solved and not looking to be solved for a long time by the looks of things.... NOT HAPPY JAN!!!

Firefox mage quality and resolution was superb when I used XP and Vista. Now that I have Windows 7, however (with the Firefox 3.6.3 version), the image quality and resolution is poor. Please help me!

I am using the Firefox 3.6.3 version with my new Windows 7 operating system. When I used all the previous Firefox versions in my XP and Vista operating systems, image quality and resolution was excellent! However, now that I have upgraded to Windows 7 and Firefox 3.6.3, the image quality and resolution is poor (unacceptable for downloading purposes).
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== I first activated my new computer and installed the Firefox 3.6.3.

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http://www.dcgdcreative.com
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The issue is not resolved by starting in safemode with add-ons disabled
The problem seems to only affect .jpeg files and only on Windows 7 on my desktop; as I have viewed several sites using windows XP with my laptop, no issues.
I had the same issue with IE8 and was able to fix the problem with by setting up the compatibility view for all sites. Issue fixed no problems at all. But nothing similar for firefox?
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Using VMWare Fusion and Vista for NetFlix Watch Now

Hi, I have installed Fusion and Vista in order to use NetFlix's Watch Now feature on my MBA. The installation was easy and Vista seems to be working fine. However, I can't get the Watch Now movie going. The film will start (after NetFlix determines my internet speed, etc.) and alternate between play and pause. Has anyone used this combination with success? Would a downgrade to XP work better? Or I should just use Boot Camp? Thanks.

I've used WinXP with Fusion on a MacMini and it was fine (but faster in BootCamp). I'm currently running Vista Business on a MacBook Pro in Parallels and while it isn't slow, it certainly is slower than in BootCamp. I expect Fusion would run Vista a bit faster - Fusion does tend to be a bit faster than Parallels but Parallels seems to get along better than Fusion with one of the applications I'm using.
There are advantages to BootCamp and BC isn't incompatible with virtualization. I suggest that you go ahead and install Vista in BootCamp. If you haven't already bought Fusion, download the demo and see how it runs using the BootCamp installation and compare that to BootCamp itself. Then decide.

P1006 - networked with XP and VIsta-64 not printing more than 2 pages

Hello - I have a dilemma with my HP P1006. I have the printer directly plugged in (USB) with my XP (32bit) PC. I have a Vista-64 PC networked with it. Both (XP-32 and Vista-64) are plugged in directly to the router (not wireless). My question is why can I not print more than two pages at a time with items opened on the Vista-64 PC? I CAN print more than two pages with items opened in the XP-32.
Things I've done:
1 - uninstalled everything & reinstalled the latest drivers for the XP-32.
2 - marked the printer as "sharing" on the XP-32.
3 - confirmed the printer is marked "enable bidirectional sharing" under the printer properties on the XP-32 PC.
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2 - is there any reason that I should download a driver for the Vista-64 OS? If so, which PC do I download it to?
3 - I have another printer (Lexmark inkjet) connected in the same way (except it is a serial port not USB) and it can print more than two pages of a document at one time with no problem from either the XP-32 or Vista-64 PC? Why?
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Hi!
I just get a system message at teh bottom of teh screen saying "output cannot be issued " and it remains on teh same screen . I goto t-code va23 and enter my quotation number and on the top I select sales document ...issue output and select my output type and print preview or prnit , it comes out of that screen into the first screen and at the bottom gives msg "Output cannot be issued". I beleiev its not allowing the smartform to display when there are more than 2 pages , because I tried it with a contact which has 2 pages and it shows output but when I try with the one having more items i.e more than 2 pages it comes out of it . Its a smartform issue and something in the smartform is causing problem I beleive.
Thanks

ITunes 7.1 and Vista

Have brand new HP pc with Vista factory installed with 4 gig ram, 1 terabyte hard disk, duoCore Intel Processor.
The new iTunes crashes Vista often all the way to a blue screen of death and trashes it's own database. Using the little widget that shows CPU usage, iTunes when it runs, by itself consumes 70-90% of the processor time (I think its the search function in idle). Love iTunes but it just doesn't play nice with Vista still!

wow! Thats a beast of a PC. I am jealous! This may help you out some:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305042
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302856
iTunes and Vista haven't been playing nicely together. It should works itself out with the next iTunes update.
Good Luck,
Rachyl

Satellite M40-225 and Vista PCMCIA driver

I lost my original disks for my M40 so bought a copy of Vista to install on my computer, when I first installed it the computer would not start up so I looked on the internet and it seems there is a conflict with the PCMCIA drivers and Vista. I followed the advice on the forum and managed to get vista to load by deleting all the files relating to the PCMCIA drivers.
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Thanks Steve

Hi
First of all the M4 I dont understand why there is a conflict between the PCMCIA drivers and Vista!
The drivers are included in the Vista OS so how did you remove such drivers and how did you install the Vista on this notebook?
Furthermore the notebook supports the PC card slot and you can use the PCMCIA R2.01, PC Card 16(multi-function card) and PCMCIA 32bit cards. The BIOS controls this slot.
Maybe you have to update the BIOS before you will install the Vista on this unit!!!

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Fingerprint Software 5.8 for Windows XP and Vista (32-bit) points to:.
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we ar stiil waiting for new driver? package? .. have lot's of customer which acan not help! to fix their machines?
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Message Edited by TeMpL on 07-09-2008 07:29 PM

Hi there!
Please see this thread for the download links for the Fingerprint Software 5.8 ....
This issue was already raised in the ThinkVantage subforum here at Lenovo Forums and it is resolved.
Regarding the Turbo Memory, please keep in mind that the hardware only works with Vista. Windows XP does not support turbo memory thus the piece of hardware is rendered useless. With regards to Turbo Memory usage in Vista, the latest drivers do fully support the card in Vista and since there are no technological changes, there is no need for additional or new drivers.
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Message Edited by icantux on 07-09-2008 02:28 PM

Airport Extreme, Airdisk, and Vista - large file problem with a twist

Hi all,
I'm having a problem moving large-ish files to an external drive attached to my Airport Extreme SOMETIMES. Let me explain.
My system - Macbook Pro, 4gb ram, 10gb free HD space on macbook, running latest updates for mac and vista, external hard drive on AE is an internal WD in an enclosure w/ 25gb free (its formatted for pc, but I've used it directly connected to multiple computers, mac and pc, without fail), AE is using firmware 7.3.2, and im only allowing 802.11n. The problem occurs on the Vista side - havent checked the mac side yet.
The Good - I have bit torrents set up, using utorrent, to automatically copy files over to my airdisk once they've completed. This works flawlessly. If i connect the hard drive directly to my laptop (macbook running bootcamp w/ vista, all updates applied), large files copy over without a hitch as well.
The Bad - For the past couple weeks (could be longer, but I've just noticed it recently being a problem - is that a firmware problem clue?) If i download the files to my Vista desktop and copy them over manually, the copy just sits for a while and eventually fails with a "try again" error. If i try to copy any file over 300mb, the same error occurs.
What I've tried - well, not a lot. The first thing i did was to make sure my hard drive was error free, and worked when physically connected - it is and it did. I've read a few posts about formatting the drive for mac, but this really isnt a good option for me since all of my music is on this drive, and itunes pulls from it (which also works without a problem). I do however get the hang in itunes if i try to import large files (movies). I've also read about trying to go back to an earlier AE firmware, but the posts were outdated. I can try the mac side and see if large files move over, but again, i prefer to do this in windows vista.
this is my first post, so im sure im leaving out vital info. If anyone wants to take a stab at helping, I'd love to discuss. Thanks in advance.

Hello,
Just noticed the other day that I am having the same problem. I have two Vista machines attached to TC w/ a Western Digital 500 gig USB'd. I can write to the TC (any file size) with no problem, however I cannot write larger files to my attached WD drive. I can write smaller folders of music and such, but I cannot back up larger video files. Yet, if I directly attach the drive to my laptop I can copy over the files, no problem. I could not find any setting in the Airport Utility with regards to file size limits or anything of the like. Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Remot Control For Digital@nywhere ATSC and Vista Don't Work Together Very Well

I have a Digital@nywhere ATSC tuner card w/remote.
On Windows XP, the remote worked ok. On Windows Vista, the remote works only some of the time.
On Windos XP, the BDA drivers and utilities on the install disk loaded fine. Not so with Vista.
On Vista, the utilities on the install disk seem to load fine, but the BDA drivers fail.
Loading the Vista Digital@nywhere utilities gets the tuner card to work, but has no drivers for the remote. Leaving me to load the utilities from the install disk, and and the BDA drivers from the Vista Digital@nywhere files. A rather tedious process, with the remote only functioning sometimes.
I have tried every trick I can think of to get the remote control and Vista to work together, to no avail. I'm stumped.
I'd rather not go out and buy a new tuner card, when the Digital@nywhere ATSC tuner card works fine on Vista. I'd just like to have a remote control that works fine too. But I don't.
I hope an answer can be found for this problem.
If I haven't been clear enough, just ask, and I'll try to explain things better.
Thanks for any help that anyone can give.

Are you using Media Center in Vista? If so, buy a Media Center remote, should work with no problems.

Drivers/Utilities CD..XP and VISTA..can I use vista for WIN7 64 bit install?

Drivers/Utilities CD's, that came with the p-35 Motherboard..XP and VISTA..can I use Vista for WIN7 64 bit install, or download the chip set drivers for Awin7 BEFORE the OS install??
MSI P-35 Platinum
Q6600 Core 2 Quad
Presently XP 32Bit
NVidia geforce 8600GT
8GB DDR2 SDRAM PC6400-800MHz
Windows 7..waiting to be installed.
Hello,
I WANT TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL.I have Windows 32 Home XP, I have the Win7 OEM I want to install.
When i bought my MSI mobo, it came with both the drivers and utilities for XP and Vista. Can I use the chip set drivers and utilities for Vista, until i can go to MSI and download the latest chip set drivers? When do i install these drivers....before the OS install, or after?
Can I format these drives first, go in the BIOS change to boot sequence from Raptor Boot Drive to the DVD/Rom to boot the WIN7 from, or should I format while installing Win7?
Someone on another forum suggested that 1) disconnect the two droves, then install the OS on the boot drive, and2) before win7 install, make the proposed boot drive (NOT THE DVD/CD ROM the first choice priority for the boot sequence....is this right?
Is it absolutely necessary to unplug the other two drives, while formatting and installing the WIN7 O.S.? People tell me that there is a chance of the OS installing sometimes on the other drives.
Also, if I want to change the now present boot drive Local disk letter (C) to my storage drive (G) and the other two drive letters, can I do this in manage disks, anytime, or only during windows setup install?
Thx

I've never had this much trouble hooking up a HDD.
I have two IDE DVD/CD ROMS. (My RAID MODE was IDE in XP OS, and still is with WIN7.)
I have three SATA HDD's.
After unplugging the SATA 2TB HDD while I installed the WIN7 OS on the 500 GB HDD (it was on the 74 RAPTOR, but I moved location, and made absolutly sure nothing went on my raptor)
So today I decided to re-hook up the 2TB Storage HDD, and when I did, I went into bios,and to the cell menu, and LOAD ALL DEFAULT SETTINGS, so it could see my newly installed HDD,which I had all my backup Data from the previous HDD. I also checked and the RAID MODE was IDE, and the boot sequence was the WDC 500GB Boot/OS drive, rebooted,then I got that annoying blanked out screen with that blinking cursor, so I got back into the bios,and changed the 1st boot to the IDE Pioneer DVD/CD ROM, 2nd boot to the 500GB HDD, and rebooted again..still got that blinking cursor.
I opened up the Mobo, checked and replugged all SATA, and power cables to the three HDDS, tried it again,then still got the blinking cursor. Seems no matter what I change in the boot sequence,it never wants to boot properly
....AND THEN,
I started with TAB > POST> started WINDOWS, then once it opened up, I went to manage Disks, saw all three HDDs were online and healthy. Win. Explorer also listed them in that folder, in device manager, it listed all three too.
The managed window showed this:
74GB (system,active,Primary partition) Storage
2TB (Primary partition) Excessive Storage
500GB (Boot, page files,crash-Dump, Primary partition) Operating system
Both the PCI IDE BusMaster and ON-Chip SATA Controller were both ENABLED.
Before I just got online, I tried RESTART, and it opened Windows the usual way, so I hope I don't have any more problems. It worked fine BEFORE I just plugged in the 2TB HDD back in.
I pretty much did what everyone suggested,except for leaving in the 74GB Raptor when I installed WIN7, which prompted me to format the drive prior to installing the OS. Also, when I changed the IDE, RAID,and AHC1, to the AHC1 Mode, just before I installed Window7, like a few suggested, I also had problems, so after the install, I went back and changed it back to IDE. My Floppy was an IDE, but I removed it from my system, and disabled in BIOS, but even a few times I went into Bios and saw that thje floppy was 1st Boot, even though I changed to either the DVD/CD Rom, or the 500GB boot drive.
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