pcpitstop Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Interesting point about cables. I looked at my (pci ide controller card) which is attatched to my hard drive with an ATA 66 IDE standard ribbon cable. But my packing slip says ultra ATA 100 hard drive and also ???ultra ATA 100 controller for windows does this mean anything??? Also when I went to gateways web site and went to support and typed in my system seial # and under cables it says 80 conductor ATA cable. But on the ribbon it doesn’t say 80 conductor any where, it says 150 volt , 30 awg? and ATA 66 . Do I have the right one?? And could this have something to do with my lockups? Also my power supply is an astec 250 wattis this enough? my system came this way I've been having locking up problems forever. gateway select 1200 pc midtower case with 250 watt power supply????? amd athlon w/ performance enhancing cache memory 256mb ram Hynix pc 133mz 64mb ddr nvidia ge force2 ultra graphics w/tv out Fat 32 for Win 95, 98, 2000 or ME ???????????download only 75gb 7m ultra ata100 hard drive ultra ata 100 controller for Windows 16x/40x dvd rom drive cdrw 12x/8x/32 3.5 floppy nec internal iomega 250 zip IDE soundblaster live w/digital out home networking/56k modem combo card. Windows Me O.S I swapped the 256 ram stick for a 512 kingston also now have a 1394 fire wire card and nvidia ge force 4600ti Link to post Share on other sites
x5dr Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 (edited) the 80 wire ribbon would be smoother than the 40 wire ribbon (found on CDRom/CDRW/DVDs)...you need the 80 wire ribbon. I don't know if that would cause any lockups but your system would run slower. Edited May 18, 2003 by x5dr Link to post Share on other sites
x5dr Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 post a test http://www.pcpitstop.com/techexpress/howto1.asp It could be ME OS. Link to post Share on other sites
Y kawika Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 I swapped the 256 ram stick for a 512 kingston is this when your lock ups began? Are you sure that your Gateway motherboard accepts a 512 stick of Ram? If you still have the 256 mb stick, replace the 512 and see if that solves your problem. Link to post Share on other sites
pcpitstop Posted May 18, 2003 Author Share Posted May 18, 2003 I swapped the 256 for the 512 originally I had the 256 I thought more ram would solve the problem then I heard ME wouldn't see any more than 512 so I moved out the 256 and moved over the 512 Link to post Share on other sites
x5dr Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 (edited) yep....95/98/ME can have problems with more than 512mb...it works for some people though. Did you have this problem with the 256 stick that came with the PC? post the test. Edited May 18, 2003 by x5dr Link to post Share on other sites
pcpitstop Posted May 18, 2003 Author Share Posted May 18, 2003 yes I did, that's why I bought more ram. Unfortunately it didn't help My Webpage also some on told me to set my graphics hardware acceleration all the way down that's not helping either Link to post Share on other sites
x5dr Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 (edited) doesn't look like DMA is enabled on the first drive. actually...how is it setup? are they connected together or on seperate IDE's...? how are the DVD/CDRW drives connected? Edited May 18, 2003 by x5dr Link to post Share on other sites
pcpitstop Posted May 18, 2003 Author Share Posted May 18, 2003 (edited) If the end of the cable is the master than the dvd/cd rom drive is the master than the cdrw is the slave (same cable) and a seperate cable for the zip and another for floppy oh and where did you get the idea theat dma was not enabled ? it is on both???? Edited May 18, 2003 by pcpitstop Link to post Share on other sites
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