hi My son spend his hard earned wages on a deal from overclockers.co.uk which included a GA-H55M-UDH mobo, i3 550, 4gb memory (1600! where has all the 133mhz gone
. he replaced his old mobo with 3.2 pentium D and 3gb of 533mhz mem into a working system he has quite a graphics card too ATI 5670hd (i think).
well everything fitted in nicely he plugged it all in and windows 7 would not boot, or re-install (device has been disconnected during read.. . or similar errors)
I connected up the 80gig ubuntu drive I had and it too complained that that the drive had been disconnected or was no longer available.
ran ubuntu 10.4 fine off the cd and it could see his 500gb hard disk partions okay.
attempted to install xp home over the windows 7 partion and after a reboot it said "disk read error". we know it is not the disk as two working hds cannot be broken.
tried different sata cables in different slotsthe only thing not tried is a lower power graphics card, the PSU is quite a good corsair one though, it is as if the hard disk controller is broken on the motherboard!
1) Is overclockersuk reputable?
2) does this happen to these mobos?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Stuart