Driver Conflict

[Peter]

Hi,

Try connect the harddisk and Cd-roms as follows:

Primary IDE master - 80 G Maxtor HD
Primary IDE Slave - 20 G HD
Secondary IDE master - DVD rom drive
Secondary IDE slave - CD/RW drive

Set all the drives jumpers to auto detect or make sure the
jumpers setting to primary and slave correctly.
Use 40 pin 80 conductor ribbon cables for all the drives
and ensure they are all correctly connected (the connector
in the middle of the ribbon cable is for slave and at the
end is for primary.
In BIOS, load default setting (usualy press F5) then save
and exit.

Note: if you use 256MB X 2 ram sticks, check your ram
sticks to ensure the spec is fully matched as XP is very
demanding on memory chips. You can remove 1 ram stick from
the DIMM slot. If XP works fine, then add back the other
one.

Boot from XP CD to perform a repair install.

Hope it helps.

Peter

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I have been running XP home since it's inception without
>any problems until I wanted to install a second Hard
>Drive.
>
>I have a 733MHz, 512MB of RAM, 80G Maxtor(master IDE
>Primary), DVD (slave IDE Primary), 20G HDD (master IDE
>Secondary), CD-RW (Slave Secondary).
>
>When initially booting I get the blue screen of death
>with memory references, however, they are never the same
>twice. Once I reboot, the machine comes up fine other
>than sending an error report to Microsoft.
>
>I have done everything concievably possible to correct
>this problem including reformatting, tearing down the
>machine and checking cables and jumpers.
>
>Here is the thing I have noticed being a technician and
>working with XP a lot. Microsoft's XP platform has so
>many variable hardware/software conflicts when trying to
>use the same driver for two devices. HAL is not working
>properly and I think they know it.
>
>I don't want guesses please...if you know this issue and
>have gone through it yourself please reply as your help
>will be greatly appreciated. Thanks :0)
>.
>