whats goiong on here then ?

[cam]

got a gigabite dual pro 915IP motherboard

Pentium 3.2 GIG pro (soket 775)

Radeon X800

set it all up plugged it all in and windows wont load as it cant take the changes to hardward so I need to reinstall windows on the hard drive

HOWEVER

the PC will only see IDE1 controller not 2 and 3 so I can only boot up from the CD but it cant detect the hard drive if its in IDE2 and if i put the hard drive in IDE1 then it cant boot from the CD as the CD is in IDE2

not both the CD and hard drive will be detected in IDE2 and 1 when I switch on raid, but my hard drive doesnt support HPA and therefore i cant set up raid or wha ever

so if you know what im trying to ay and you can help

please feel free to post lol

[turpieaj]

1. Have you gone into the BIOS to check that nothing to do with the IDE controllers has been configured out by mistake - if unsure just use the option to return the BIOS to the factory settings.

2. With everything connected are all components on IDE channels being shown in the Power On Self Test screen at the single beep code? (any more than a single beep could mean componant failure, or not properly inserted)

3. Have you got your SATA drivers on floppy motherboard mfctrs always supply them on CD, you need to put them onto floppy for stage 4 below

4. Raid can only be set up if you press F6 at the right time during the windows installation - when it askes for something like "press f6 if you wish to install 3rd party raid/scsi drivers etc" - once pressed later on during installation, you will be prompted to insert the drivers from the floppy disk.

Hope this is of some help, but if i can have a little think of any other routes to try will post them up later

[turpieaj]

Also try only having your master hdd and cd rom as slave on the same channel and disconnect everything else til windows is installed

[cam]

sussed it cheers though fella

I had to install some raid drivers from the boot CD and copy them to a floppy and F6 them in order for the intel chip to work, then #I could set my CD as master and HDD as slave and boot up and install windows

im totally fucked off now though trying to install SP2

its just frozen once whilst I tried to install it and its getting late and I want to install battlefiled 2 and play it with my new PCI Card

so looks like im not going on line tonight.

[turpieaj]

Im just glad one of my options were right LOL.
I hope you havent gone out your way to upgrade just for a PCI express graphics card - AGP was tested against PCI X in micromart and all that was gained in performance was very minute about a 1 frame rate gain against AGP on most popular games.

As for service pack 2, did you install any drivers prior to SP2 - sometimes a conflict can happen (had graphics drivers completely corrupted before).

I always now install in this order XP,SP2,Chipset drivers, Graphics, Audio then the rest (never had any problems since doing so )

Originally Posted by cam

sussed it cheers though fella

I had to install some raid drivers from the boot CD and copy them to a floppy and F6 them in order for the intel chip to work, then #I could set my CD as master and HDD as slave and boot up and install windows

im totally fucked off now though trying to install SP2

its just frozen once whilst I tried to install it and its getting late and I want to install battlefiled 2 and play it with my new PCI Card

so looks like im not going on line tonight.

[cam]

only bought it so BF2 would be better, got a whole new upgrade to find out the fucking £160 card isnt supported by the game

anyway got into more serious trouble now, cant fuckin install XP

Do a format of C and it hangs half way through installing XP for no fuckin reason

any ideas fella ? ive tried 3 times now

[cam]

sorted it

[JD7]

nice one CAM It's a fooking great game BF2 is

[Shorty]

Originally Posted by cam

only bought it so BF2 would be better, got a whole new upgrade to find out the fucking £160 card isnt supported by the game

- Video Cards
Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:
Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)
GeForce 6600 (PCIe)
GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)
GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

Should be reet

[cam]

Originally Posted by Shorty

- Video Cards
Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:
Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)

Should be reet

Nope mate, mines a PCIe X800, the game must have gone into development well before the card was made

its the one above them and I cant get BF2 to play im on shit loads of forums

heres what ive done so far :-



So far I have dont the following:-

Formatted C and installed XP Pro and SP2 (twice)
Reinstalled BF2 (4 times)
Tried the latest video drivers from the Gigabyte website
Tried the Latest video drivers from the Omegadrivers.net site
updated the patch for BF2

I wish I'd downloaded the game and not bought it now.

Any help would be much appreciated

[Shorty]

Dont know how I can help m8....

I guess if the card if going to be a popular model, they'll release a patch in the near future...drop them an email to enquire for starters would be my advice

have you a spare card for the meanwhile?

I aint really playing it at the mo - loadng times are rediculous and its well laggy for the first 5-10mins per map

[cam]

If i put my old GFX5700 in then i need to put in the old mobo and then I have to format and oh my god all this shit again getting the new one working

Suppose Ill have to

My new Mobo has gig lans on it and dual bios, 4 gig ram ect but its still shit cause it doesnt do the job I want it to

[Shorty]

New gfx card then

[turpieaj]

The new ATI mobo with crossfire looks good - proper competition for SLi

Andy