Josh the Aspie’s Blog

I’ve gotten all of the basic components installed in the computer, but the RAID 5 that was set up before I bought the components seems to be having trouble when I boot windows. I haven’t had a chance to run FDISK due to not having a floppy installed. I tried repairing windows, but the setup CD won’t recognize the SATA drives. I knew it wouldn’t ahead of time, but just wanted to check. I need to borrow my younger brothers DVD+Floppy computer to put together an FDISK disk, and use the motherboard’s DVD to create a floppy that will contain the SATA drivers I need to repair or reinstall windows.

He’s not home at the moment, and neither he, nor my Father are answering their phones, so I’ll have to wait till tomorrow so that I can contact them, as I’m not going to use his computer without his permission. In the mean time I’m going to do some coding, and get some RP in before I install a floppy drive in my new computer, and then clean up my room from the mess of working on the computer.

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I’m currently working on putting together the first PC That I have built myself. It’s got an ASUS Crosshair motherboard, and an AMD A2 slot 64 bit dual core FX processor. It also has 2 gigs of RWM. I’m planning on putting the computer together with a RAID 5 array, although this means I’ll either need a floppy drive installed in the thing or, if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to use a jump drive in one of it’s many USB slots.

The current problem I’m working through is that the Crosshair has an 8 pin CPU supplementary power slot, with 4 pins capped off, and the PS only has a 4 pin supplementary CPU power plug, but it will fit in the side that’s not capped off. It’s taking a chance, but I’m going to attempt to use the existing PS.