Miku
08-04-2008, 01:27 AM
First off, my specs can be found here: http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T-Series&model=T6410
I bought this computer off a guy somewhat used, and added a few of my own parts to it (M-Audio soundcard, bigger RAM stick, one SATA hard drive and one IDE hard drive).
Problem number one is that it's having trouble consistently booting to the right drive. The drive I have the OS installed on is the IDE drive it came with. When it starts, it displays a big emachines 'e' logo with two options, BIOS and boot menu. For a while, boot menu would list all the options, but BIOS would only show the SATA drive half the time (EDIT: let me rephrase, about half the time, it would show the SATA drive but nothing else). Now though, it only detects the SATA drive no matter what, that is when they're all plugged in.
Right now I'm booted to the IDE hard drive it came with (we'll call it IDE 1) and this is possible because I unplugged the other IDE (my old one, we'll call it IDE 2). I'm not sure exactly how that helps, but it does.
My BIOS lists 8 possible drive slots, "IDE" channels 1 through 4 (which are actually the SATA plugs), and IDE channel 5 and 6 masters and slaves. A DVD drive is plugged in as channel 6 master and that consistently gets recognised, but channel 5 is entirely ignored when everything's plugged in.
Feel free to ask for any important pieces of information I may have forgotten.
As far as other problems go... I changed the name of the administrator account, and now whenever the computer starts up, I get a message saying "The system could not log you on." Just a minor little annoyance. And the user folder in documents and settings is still under the old name. Anything I can do about this? Though it's not really a big problem or anything.
I bought this computer off a guy somewhat used, and added a few of my own parts to it (M-Audio soundcard, bigger RAM stick, one SATA hard drive and one IDE hard drive).
Problem number one is that it's having trouble consistently booting to the right drive. The drive I have the OS installed on is the IDE drive it came with. When it starts, it displays a big emachines 'e' logo with two options, BIOS and boot menu. For a while, boot menu would list all the options, but BIOS would only show the SATA drive half the time (EDIT: let me rephrase, about half the time, it would show the SATA drive but nothing else). Now though, it only detects the SATA drive no matter what, that is when they're all plugged in.
Right now I'm booted to the IDE hard drive it came with (we'll call it IDE 1) and this is possible because I unplugged the other IDE (my old one, we'll call it IDE 2). I'm not sure exactly how that helps, but it does.
My BIOS lists 8 possible drive slots, "IDE" channels 1 through 4 (which are actually the SATA plugs), and IDE channel 5 and 6 masters and slaves. A DVD drive is plugged in as channel 6 master and that consistently gets recognised, but channel 5 is entirely ignored when everything's plugged in.
Feel free to ask for any important pieces of information I may have forgotten.
As far as other problems go... I changed the name of the administrator account, and now whenever the computer starts up, I get a message saying "The system could not log you on." Just a minor little annoyance. And the user folder in documents and settings is still under the old name. Anything I can do about this? Though it's not really a big problem or anything.