I have a Compaq that came with this board and a celeron 1.8 or 2.0 I believe. The fastest P4 that will run is a Intel Northwood 2.8 Ghtz 400 FSB nothing ELSE! Northwood 2.8 is the fastest 400 FSB, the boards chipset won't run anything faster than 400 FSB. Mine is running, Win 7 the Northwood P4 2.8 with 2 gigs ram, 160 gig HD and a 256 video card for over 5 years (minus win 7, had XP before with no issues. Good for light gaming, web surfing and MS office! Add a Zotac 512 MB PCI or Sparkle Video card and you can handle most more medium gaiming out today! My cards have HDMI and DVI output. I highly recommend it!
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Hi, uninstalling the onboard video will only be reinstalled by Windows next time you boot up. Disabling it in the Device Manager might and mght not do the trick if your mb is set on using the onboard. You might want to try and disable the onboard video in the CMOS/BIOS set-up. In some instances, you are asked in the BIOS what video will be used such as onboard, AGP or PCI or a selection of something like that. Also you can try and not allocating any memory to the onboard video. Hope this be of some help. Pls post again how things turn up. Good luck.
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Since you have another vga card, is it pci, if it is install it to see if if works, if it does them problem solved, if not let me know then can help ya further.
Mark
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I'll assume you're using windows xp, but in any case have you tried going to my computer>manage>disk management to see if it appears? If not, refer to pg 8 or pg 14 of this article to Install a hard drive. You may have to enter the bios (F1 at boot) to allow the new drive. Also see this link to your bios setup screens.
If you're still having problems after looking through this info and checking the bios setup, write back and we'll be happy to help sort it out...
I hope this information allows you to resolve this issue. If you need further assistance, please post back with a comment to this thread.
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SOURCE: HP d530 sff - Hard Drive Sounds Like it Will Take Off!
Its caused by services that update or monitor the drive. Intel motherboards seem to cause HDD to operate with a lot of noise
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Lets try to repair it using the windows installation disc. First things first, look at the motherboard down on the right lower side. I would like you to find the CMOS jumper, it will be three pins sticking up with a plastic jumper made of plastic fit over two of the pins. I would like you to move the plastic jumper over one pin so it "shorts" the next pin over. Now power the computer up and lets see if it boots to BIOS by tapping F2 during the initial power up and splash screen...if it shows it. If it does get into the bios, go to the save page and click on "set default settings", click F10, save and exit. Power down the computer, unplug it, press in the power button for 10 seconds. This will now drain all power out of the system. Move the plastic jumper back to its original position. Plug the computer back in and power it up, go into the bios....if you are in, reset the time and date. Reboot with the windows installation disc in a drive you know works. Follow the repair fix listed below. Follow it closely, it will repair most boot errors.....
Windows Start-up Errors
Step one, you need a Windows Installation CD. If you only have a recovery disk set like the ones from HP or Compaq they will not do what you need done. Under normal circumstances however, you can use a Dell disk because the Operating system is on a stand-alone disk. All retail versions are also acceptable as well as upgrade disks. For a rule of thumb, if the disk has the Microsoft hologram it should work.
While the computer is first starting up and you see the manufacturers splash screen, tap F12 (some computers it’s F9, others it may be another key, you may have to watch and see if the computer lists the key strokes for getting to the boot menu. If you still cannot find it, boot into the BIOS settings and change your boot order there. Save your settings and exit, the computer will now seek the cd rom as its boot source first.
Place your Windows disk in the computer and start it up. When you see the test at the top of the page “Press Any Key To Boot From CD” Just hit the space bar to activate. The next screen you will see will most likely be a Windows setup screen, when you see this press the “R” key to get to the recovery console. It will get there, it may take a little time, patience. Once it loads you will be given a choice of Windows installations, there should only be one, if there are more, always pick number one. It may ask for an administrators password, if you have not set this particular password, then just leave it blank and press enter. The next prompt you see is:
C:\Windows>
You need to type the following:
cd \
hit enter. Pay close attention to the spacing between the characters. There is a space between the character “d” and the “\”
You are now at the ROOT of the drive, this is where basic commands can be given and changed. You should now see the following:
C:\>
Now type the following:
CHKDSK /R
Hit the enter key.
The chkdsk /r command also includes the P command and will also look for lost recoverable information in bad sectors.
There are occasions depending on how corrupt the system is, that this process could take several hours, so be patient with it.
Now, after chkdsk has run type the following:
FIXBOOT
Hit the enter key.
It may prompt you with a warning, that’s ok, just continue. When fixboot has finished, type: EXIT hit enter and windows will reboot. When the system reboots, tap the F8 key during this time and you will see the multi-boot menu come up. Scroll to the title “Last Know Good Configuration” and hit the enter key. If you were having some simple drive errors this should have fixed them.
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I have used two different WORKING moniters, 2 different WORKING cables, 3 different (2 known working) VGA cards, and still no pudding.
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