HELP!!

[Cixso]

It's starting to piss me off.

Not 1 game will install. Harderly any programmes install. AVG won't install.

I'm starting to think it might be my hard drive?

I'll throw this in the streets in a second and buy a SATA one and put Vista on it.

[Stephen!]

Wait, you have an IDE hard drive?

[Cixso]

Wait, you have an IDE hard drive?

Yes I do.

[blanky12!]

Yes I do.

I think the IDE drive is the problem

[Cixso]

I think the IDE drive is the problem

How so?

[iFuseDan]

It is very rarely the HDD that is at fault when you get your CD/DVD appear to dissapear midst long operations, the usual points of failure are drive, lead, mobo. Just because equipment is new doesnt mean it works, another thought though, does your HDD and DVD Drive share the same IDE loop?

[Cixso]

It is very rarely the HDD that is at fault when you get your CD/DVD appear to dissapear midst long operations, the usual points of failure are drive, lead, mobo. Just because equipment is new doesnt mean it works, another thought though, does your HDD and DVD Drive share the same IDE loop?

Yes they do.

I only have one IDE slot on my motherboard, I have 8 SATA slots though.

[Cixso]

Turns out of my RAM was too powerful for my MB. 800mhz

Had to downgrade to 600.

Works now.