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im hoping its just something like that, although i couldnt find anything on the asus website about it. and i have no idea how to update my bios, i think i tried once to get my video card to work, but it didnt do anything. it supposedly was able to do it through windows, but the program would error everytime. and i havent used dos in a while, and i dont have a floppy drive, so my options are pretty limited there.

ok, ill try my best :D primary ide channel has a 60 gig hard drive with windows xp pro installed on it at the end, for the master setting. my secondary channel holds two dvd drives, one rewritable. havent even touched those, they i dont think are the problem. i want to put my 160gig hard drive in the slave slot on the primary ide channel. when i plug it in, i get that error. i even have my 60gig hard drive set first in the bios, and when i hit f8 (on startup) it will give me a menu, with all the drives (including the 160 gig) available for me to choose which one i want to boot from. i chose the 60 gig, and it still gives me that error. alright, jumper settings. my master (60gig) is on the end, and the problem drive (160gig) is on the middle one, for the slave. they both have jumper setting diagrams. my master one has 4 different settings on the diagram. cable select, master, slave, and no jumper for a master without a slave. the slave hard drive (160gig) has a generic diagram for all of the hitachi hard drives, so it has 4 different settings for 4 different kinds of drives, totalling 16 combonations. figured out which one it was, so that leaves us 4 settings. cable select, master, slave, and another one, dont know what it is. all 4 use two jumpers. now what i have tried so far: master set to master, slave set to slave. master set to cable select, slave set to cable select. master set to master, slave set to cable select. master set to cable select, slave set to slave. master with no jumpers, slave with no jumpers. many differenet other combos i cant even remember, none of them that make any logical sense. one time, i had the slave hard drive on one of the settings for a different type of hard drive, and i cant remember what the master was, but it did boot up. the hard drive was not in "my computer" or in the "device manager". did a new hardware wizard, to no avail. the only thing i can think of is xp thinks i have another os installed on my slave hard drive, and is tring to bring up some sort of boot select thing. alternatively, my motherboard might think something like that too. i put in my xp cd once, booted up the computer. it said it would check the current hardware setup, said that for about 10 minutes. the disk was no longer spinning in the drive and neither harddrive was making noise, so i dont think it did anything. thats pretty much all the info i have, i do have one question though. can i plug the hard drive in while the computer is on? i dont think you are supposed to, but if its possible, i could at least get the data off of it and back the data up, and if i dont get it to work i could try reformatting. the only thing is, i cant lose the data on the second hard disk. i cant no matter what.

ill switch you places :P (cincinnatti area in indiana)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 (runs at 2ghz, dual core so its like two) 2 gigs ram 220 gigs total hard drive space (if i get my second hard drive running, no one replyed to my topic yet) no video card yet :lol: asus a8n vm motherboard 450watt power supply

i was about to post that if they were watching me play oblivion, they would find out im insane. but then i realized they probably already know that i am insane :D (oblivion is freaking awesome, even with horrible graphics :D )

"Do not want" :lol:

yay! i got access to a digital camera now, so i can post my pics :D . my room is pretty big, so it will take me a while to photograph it :lol: . ill do it after school tonight 8)

he said that in the original post. we realize the US uses everything backwards. read about it yesterday, was going to stay up. ended up going to bed an hour and half earlier than normal because i was sick :(

if winter was shorter, i would like it around here. the temperatures over all are a little low for my taste, but i get by by leaving the heater on all the time :D . politically this country is closer to what i want than a lot of other countries, a few are better. everyone speaks english here though, so this is probably where i will stay :P . (tried learning a foreign language, brain is to small :lol: )

you have to remember that this is an edited video too, there could have been more that said no than said yes to it. and he was kind of rushing them, maybe some figured it out and changed their minds. some guy walks up to you with a camera, pushes a paper into your face and say sign the petition, you are not realyl thinking about it.

you stole mine :( heh, truman show. i still think im in something like the truman show, although i forget about it a lot of times. sometimes i flip the middle finger at the air, so all those people know i know they are there :twisted: anyways, heres a little story about last words i just learned tonight in government class. thomas jefferson and john adams co wrote the declaration of independence, which was adopted july 4th 1776. they were good friends until their political views started going opposite directions, and they started to oppose each other. went like that all the way to july 4th, 1826, exactly 50 years after the declaration of independance. john adams was died on that day, and his last words were "jefferson lives". the interesting part was, thomas jefferson also died july 4th, 1826, an estimated 10 minutes before john adams said those words. pretty interesting, huh? now i just need to find out if its true or my teacher was bs'ing... ill have to think about my last words would be, edit them in later :D

at first i found it really funny, then i started thinking about how sad it was that no one knew. then i started thinking it was funny again, then i started paying attention closely and i think most of the people were just signing a petition, not even thinking about it. then that one person said no, followed by her friend wanting to, and i realized the ones they filmed probably really didnt know what they were doing. it is kind of sad though. in my government class i am the one who knows the most, and there is a ton of stuff i dont know. the other people in class dont even attempt to answer (well, some do), and when they do its usually wrong. then everyone gives me dirty looks because they think im showing off, when i still get 25% of the questions he asks me wrong. its kind of sad how much people dont know about our government. half my class is older than 25 too, so its not just the kids :? .

back to bug you guys some more :lol: the problem i am having now deals with my second hard drive. when its not hooked up, my computer starts right up. when i hook it up, it takes 2 minutes checking both hard drives on startup, and then it blinks on a blank screen for a bit, then pops up this message: "Reboot and select proper boot device or put media in the boot device and press any key." things ive tried so far: 1. many different jumper configs for the hard drives. cable select on both, master and slave setup, no jumpers at all. 2. changed hard drive priority in my bios. the one that is supposed to be first is first. even changed it around to see what would happen. 3. changed boot device priority. but hard drive first, cd second. put hard drive second, cd first. put floppy disk (which i dont even have lol) first and all other positions. 4. turned off the raid settings, but this was just for my SATA slots. i dont have any serial ata hard drives, so i dont think it matters either way. 5. press f8 on startup, i thought that was supposed to go into safemode. apperantly it brings up a menu of all my different drives, and allows me to pick which one i want to boot. i picked the one with xp on it, still gives me that error. both hard drives check out ok through the opening sequence, it just takes about a minute or two a piece for the computer to check them. when i only have one hard drive it flies right through it. the only thing i can think of is something thinks their is two OS, and its trying to get a dual boot menu. i really dont know though, i just know i cant lose the data on that hard disk. already lost enough by formatting this one. and something completely unrelated to that, i am going to buy a new monitor. im thinking 20" widescreen. im thinking this one. would that be good? is it worth the price? the problem is my credit card is maxed, so i have to buy it at a store. all i got is about $800 cash on me, so i cant spend more than that, and would rather not spend anymore than $500. thanks in advance once again :D

Planet of the Apes - the 1968 version, the original. i thought ive seen this movie before. i saw the very last part (or imagined i did its been pariodied so much), and i did recognize some of the scenes. on the whole though i hadnt seen most of it. anyways, wasnt happy with it at the start. camera work wasnt all that great, and charlton heston i dont think gave a very good performance at the start. about 20 minutes to a half hour into it i thought it really started to get better. by the end i was thinking it was awesome. i think most people know the story, or at least the end, but i wont say anything else just incase. it gets better progressively as you go through the movie, and continues progressing all the way until the end. definently a good movie.

ffac was good even only half understanding what was going on :D resident evil was ok, milla jvovich makes everything good :D mortal combat movies? my friend actually thought they were really good, while watching them all i could do was laugh at him. they were funny in their own way too.

i dont think we ever did decide if tv goes here or in m&m, i think i asked when the board first opened, i think it can go either place. excepting cartoons (southpark, family guy ect...) and comedies (the office US, and seinfeld) my favorite two tv shows are firefly and lost. firefly is cancelled now though, good thing lost is still going. darren arnofsky(requiem for a dream, pi) is directing this weeks episode of lost, so everyone has to watch :D . ill probably be bumping up a lost topic this wednesday after the show 8)

eh, i thought it was ok. could have been better, but it was decent.

of course he took it from a website. or an email. its been around for hundreds of years (it seems like)

lol, quoted me from another thread too :D i used to have a lot of "id hit it" pictures, its kinda sad i lost them all. this was one i knew where to get quick, and probably my favorite one :D

hehe, sound hilarious :D i never do anything good for april fools day, i might try to think of something tonight.

just because i am shallow?

the evga geforce 6800GS is $179, the evga geforce 6800 is just 99. the gs would be better, if that extra performance is worth it, go for it.

since its april fools day im going to let this slide. any other day of the year and someone posts this... *pounds fist into opposite hand a few times*

nicky hilton is better on average. both of them can be very, very hot at times. sometimes, not so hot. doesnt matter if they dont have any personality, these arent the type of people you go to for a relationship. so my final verdict: i have the name "nicky hilton" on runescape, but i havent logged into it for ages :lol:

$125 US :P . trying to decide what to do with it now, i dont have any room for it :lol: ive seen the 2000 one twice or so, saw the majority of the first one once, and saw a few clips of one of the others :lol: . on second thought i should have watched them before deciding wether or not it was worth the money :P