Hey RyanWB

[Mike Olbinski]

You seem to know a ton about computers, so here's an issue I'm having:

My computer does the following:

When I use a certain program called FFLM (fantasy football program) to upload webpages to a server, it crashes my computer.

This program doesn't crash anyone else's computer who uses it, doesn't crash my laptop, nor has it ever done so in the past.

This computer is about a year old, I put it together myself. It never crashed before I installed a CD Writer, but now that I have that unplugged, it still crashes during the uploading. I also installed a second hard drive about 5 months or so ago, so I'm not sure if that's the problem or not.

I tried disabling my Norton Virus software, still crashed.

My computer shows a message when I boot up about about my primary IDE channel not having conductor 80 installed.

I have my floppy disk and two hard drive on one IDE cable going into my primary IDE channel, and I HAD the CD Rom and an internal zip drive on the other.

It seems to ONLY crash during the upload process, nothing else on my computer makes it crash. In fact, it's been up and running for almost a week without a problem, until I ran the program today.

Any help you can give me would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Ryanwb]

There are two causes to your problem, its either a jumper problem, or you have the wrong type of cable...I will explain:

I am going to guess you are running Windows XP because it will let you use a hard drive that isn't exactly set up correctly.

Its fine that you are using the same IDE cable, but my first suggestion would be to look at your jumper settings on the back of the HD's . One needs to be set as a master (almost always the HD with the OS on it) The second needs to be designated a slave. Each hard drive is different so I would suggest going to your respective hard drive manufactuers websites and looking up the jumper settings.

Second if you did not add your 2nd hard drive into your system's BIOs you need to do that. The HD will come with a set up disk. If you can't find one, download Seagates at www.seagate.com they have a cool program called "Disk Wizard" that sets up a second hard drive and I believe it will support other companies HD's

About the cable:

You might be using a Ultra IDE 33 cable. I have heard from some people that switching to an Ultra IDE 66 solves the error you are getting on the bootup. It is sort of complicated to explain the difference but basically it has to do with the number of conductors. If the jumper settings don't solve your problem you might look into that. The error you are getting on boot up is definately telling you there is an issue

Let me know if anything works

Ryan

 

[Mike Olbinski]

I never added it into the BIOS, if that's what you mean.

I'm pretty dang sure I have the jumpers right, so maybe it's the BIOS stuff.

Thanks for the help, you've given me some hope.

Mike

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Ryan,

I checked out my jumpers, and noticed my master drive was set to Cable Select, or CS, instead of Master. Could that be the problem? Is that bad?

I switched it to Master, and now nothing is happening...but it's not like it hasn't done this before.

Anyways, I also put in the Conductor 80 cables.

You never answered my PM, what was that about?

Mike

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Ryan,

I checked out my jumpers, and noticed my master drive was set to Cable Select, or CS, instead of Master. Could that be the problem? Is that bad?

I switched it to Master, and now nothing is happening...but it's not like it hasn't done this before.

Anyways, I also put in the Conductor 80 cables.

You never answered my PM, what was that about?

Mike

Ryan, update on this: Turned out to be a bad memory chip, that's all. Stupid, yet so simple.

Mike