Partitioning question

[paulcrill]

hi all

I have a question. I partitioned my 500gig sata drive with partition mananger and saw that both partitions were primary. i've been getting a lot of BSOD lately and I was wondering if this could be why. Should I convert the second partition to logical?

 

[hawker]

Did it BSOD before you partioned? and what HDD is it?

 

[paulcrill]

It's a seagate. I got it a couple of week ago and installed vista on it. I partitined it then but it's only been blue screening for about a week and a half. I'm wondering if it's because I also had an ide drive attached.

 

[CrzWaco]

Sata and IDe device don't have problems with each other. Must have been your drivers that did not work properly for motherboard or something else

 

[paulcrill]

the only drivers that came with the mb (It's an ASUS m2A-VM HDMI) are Lan drivers and realtek audio. there is a driver for "AMD chipset" but when I try and load them, it loads up an ATI catalyst driver program. It seems the amd chipset is meant to be for the onboard graphics card. I tried to install them anyway, but the program says "can't find ati graphics card" or soemthign similar, as I have my own 8800gt pci express card installed and when you do that it disables the onboard graphics.

I admit I'm puzzled as to why there aren't any more drivers for the chipset.

 

[LFX]

hi all

I have a question. I partitioned my 500gig sata drive with partition mananger and saw that both partitions were primary. i've been getting a lot of BSOD lately and I was wondering if this could be why. Should I convert the second partition to logical?

as many possible causes as there possibly are for bsods, i doubt it being because both of the partitions are primary.

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