Easy question!

[digitalbooyah]

Hey guys, I just got a new system and it's working great, but I just had one question...

I got a 320gig hard drive, western digital, sata II, i'm really enjoying the speed, I installed windows on a 20 gig partition and was planning to just put the rest in one big partition for junk and everything...anyways...

I went into my disk manager to format the rest of it and i'm only getting 131,8xx total...and 110gigs or so after my first "system" partition. I've only got a base install so reinstalling windows wouldn't be a huge deal at this point, so my question is how do i get the rest? I'm sure i'm missing a jumper or something and i've never used SATAII before, SATA at all i suppose, so i'm just stumped, figured it'd be an easy question for you guys...

thanks!

the mobo is asus a8n-e , so it's nforce 4ultra something or other..

thanks again.

 

[mwmorph]

needs service pack 1 to reconigse the rest of the drive.

 

[digitalbooyah]

Wow, that was easy!

Thanks!

 

[digitalbooyah]

Another easy question!

I have 2gigs of ram in my new computer and when I boot up the BIOS says it's all there, but it says DDR 400, Single Channel, 64-bit

Don't I want it in dual channel? How would I change that? Ahh!

EDIT: it's corsair value 2x1gb sticks.

 

[bendixG15]

Sounds like you do not have any Service Paks installed.

Suggest that you stick in SP2 and then start tweaking.

Good hunting...

 

[digitalbooyah]

Just in case anyone is reading this having the same problem...

if you want your ram to run in dual-channel you have to put it in the right slots on the mobo. On my asus board i had to put them in every other slot. Bingo, fixed it right quick.

thanks for the replies.

 

[Wentelteefje]

Was about to give you the same solution... Glad it's fixed...

 

[niggles]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
needs service pack 1 to reconigse the rest of the drive.

OK, it needs SP1, but I have to install Windows first to download SP1, then how do I add the partition? Isn't this somewhat chicken and egg? Is the only way to do this with Partition Magic.

Edit: oh, and here's the Windows documentation on the issue... doesn't really explain what I need to do to fix this with an old copy of Windows XP though (pre SP1)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[pkrush]

You can order a CD of SP2 from Microsoft or download the full updater and slipstream it onto your Windows CD.

 

[Budman]

Just make your own SP2 XP cd.

follow instructions...