Cripes don't talk to me about memory settings combined with Asus motherboards ! When I built this beasty with an XP3000 AMD chip and 1Gb RAM, I was tempted to play with the BIOS after I had it working nicely, and found: Memory settings - Normal or Aggressive. Well, you have to try aggressive yes ? While I watched, it booted and the HDD light came on and that was all. No problem I thought, reboot. I have 2 large PATA HD with two partitions on each. English WinXP on the primary partition of the first, and Korean XP on the primary partition of the second. The installations of XP were backed up {"Ghosted"} onto the other drives secondary partition. Practically perfect yes ? No. The motherboard destroyed both hard drives as it crashed. No rebooting from either drive. I downloaded the manufacturers "Drive Fitness Tools" (DFT) and found that both drives were beyond repair. Not bad for a couple of 1 month old drives ! Well, what can you do (other than send both drives back on warranty) ? I sent an email to Asus and told them what had happened, and asked them to rename the BIOS setting of "Aggressive" to "Self Destruct" ! Surprisingly they answered and said that "they would look into the issue" :lol:
