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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7005)	4/12/1999 2:40:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

But in your example even if C: is always the same by installing and always executing from that install wouldn't there be the same type of problem if the other drive letters changed? Yes, but why would they change? When you are booted from the primary NT the other drives always have the same letter as long as you stay in the same boot. If you add or remove a drive or if you partition a drive then the letters will change. The same is true if you are booted from your SCSI or other drives. Once booted the drive letters stay the same. If you add another SCSI drive and you are booted from primary NT the SCSI drive will get a letter after the other drives are assigned. If you are booted from SCSI and you add another SCSI drive then it becomes the D drive and the IDE drives are all altered. The boot target can alter this..if my memory is correct...Assume your SCSI boot target is ID 2 and your SCSI drive is ID2. Then assume you add a second SCSI drive. If you set the second SCSI drive as ID3 it will become the D drive as the SCSI search is down through the ID sequence. If you set the second drive as ID1 (above the boot target ID) then it is not found in the first search and I believe it is found after the first SCSI and the IDE drives..making it the last letter which would not change the existing drive letters..just some interesting info that is based on my memory and the way it worked in my own specific setup..your mileage may vary. The above may only be true for Win95/98. NT assigns drive letters differently.. For example I have a machine that assigns a removable SCSI MO drive letter D in NT and G in Win95. The harddrive has four partitions. Win95 gives priority to extended partitions before removables. NT gives the removable a higher priority. BTW, I am violating one of my own rules..too much non pertinent info in one post...one idea..one post = lack of confusion. Were you overclocking??? If so, do you think that had anything to do with the fatality? YES I was overclocking and NO I do not believe it had anything to do with the "perhaps" fatality. I always reset the CPU to standard speed at every hint of a problem. It never made a difference (once in the beginning she froze..I bumped the voltage and it did not seem to affect anything after that.) I would prefer to be able to email into tech support rather than posting a newsgroup question and then having to keep checking the newsgroup for a response from either tech support or other users. I plan on asking you:) unflinchingly stable board. 'Rock solid' as they say Hot Dog! Sounds good to me. How is the overclocking done? It is called jumperless..that usually means fewer jumpers..the ABIT is jumperless but still has jumpers..CMOS reset and maybe others? Actually I will be happy with a machine that is not overclocked if I can get all of my hardware to work. You are getting too far ahead of me..five drives!! How did you install NT on the SCSI drive? Did you disable the IDE drives? I recall the second IDE NT install played with the boot file in your primary NT install. Did you have a similar problem when you installed NT on the SCSI drive? Zeuspaul

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