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Chizl · 01-05-2006, 06:13 PM

I made the biggest mistake of my life and about a year and a half ago, I purchased an Alienware box.. It's was state of the art at the time "supposable", but at a serious price.. Specs on it: http://www.chizl.com/comp/. From day one, nothing but problems. Found out it was over clocked and was getting over clocking errors at least 3 times a week. I called Alienware and over the year of support I must have talked to them about this same problem at lease 15 to 20 times.. I never got a real solution and after the year ended, they refused to support me without a $400+ cost and $75 an hour for labor.

I tried burning the box and ever since, I don't have that machine working anymore.. I'm not sure what the problem is, but when I drop the CD in for Windows XP, I get to the windows install blue screen saying "Windows Setup", but it never does anything after that.. It's like all of a sudden it can't find the array.. I went in and killed the array and recreated it. Still same thing. So then I unplugged the array and plugged in a 2GB harddrive I had lying around, figuring maybe I have an array problem all together. I can't get this hard drive to even show up as plugged into the mother board. Ive triple checked the jumpers and it's setup as master, it's the only drive plugged into the mother board, and it still tells me, no Hard Drive found.

I'm not sure what to do from this point, but thought about just going out, buying another motherboard, CPU, case and Hard drives, pull out all my cool stuff from this box and moving it over. Unless someone here can tell me a better way to fix my problem.

I haven't built a computer since 1995 and things have change a lot since then. I remember when IRQ's was the only issues people really had to worry about.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Chizl:

01-05-2006, 06:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	ASUS Motherboard with Raid I made the biggest mistake of my life and about a year and a half ago, I purchased an Alienware box.. It's was state of the art at the time "supposable", but at a serious price.. Specs on it: http://www.chizl.com/comp/. From day one, nothing but problems. Found out it was over clocked and was getting over clocking errors at least 3 times a week. I called Alienware and over the year of support I must have talked to them about this same problem at lease 15 to 20 times.. I never got a real solution and after the year ended, they refused to support me without a $400+ cost and $75 an hour for labor. I tried burning the box and ever since, I don't have that machine working anymore.. I'm not sure what the problem is, but when I drop the CD in for Windows XP, I get to the windows install blue screen saying "Windows Setup", but it never does anything after that.. It's like all of a sudden it can't find the array.. I went in and killed the array and recreated it. Still same thing. So then I unplugged the array and plugged in a 2GB harddrive I had lying around, figuring maybe I have an array problem all together. I can't get this hard drive to even show up as plugged into the mother board. Ive triple checked the jumpers and it's setup as master, it's the only drive plugged into the mother board, and it still tells me, no Hard Drive found. I'm not sure what to do from this point, but thought about just going out, buying another motherboard, CPU, case and Hard drives, pull out all my cool stuff from this box and moving it over. Unless someone here can tell me a better way to fix my problem. I haven't built a computer since 1995 and things have change a lot since then. I remember when IRQ's was the only issues people really had to worry about. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Chizl: