I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about hardware but this one has me stumped.
I picked up a dual Athlon MB with two 1900+ chips from a buddy at work. I stuck it all together yesterday and today started installing XP Pro. Well the first install went fine, BIOS sees all 250GB of disk and when Windows went to install it saw the whole drive.
Well then things went to hell. Long story short, a bad stick of RAM was killing me.
New RAM, runs fine. I stick the CDROM in and boot er' up. BIOS sees 250GB but the Windows setup routine only sees 131GB. I reboot a few times, delete the partition about five times and recreate it. It still only sees 131 GB.
I think, what the hell, maybe yesterday that's all it saw too, and I just missed it. When it gets into windows it'll see the whole thing. Well, it did, now Windows sees the whole thing, but there is now a 131GB partition on the drive and the rest is empty.
What gives? Why would the setup only see 131 GB when I deleted the partition several times? Any ideas? I've never seen this before and am sort of at a loss to explain it.