Luney Tune said: I had the same problem a while back. It turned out to be a known bug in the Windows installer. If two identical drives are connected and one of them is unpartitioned (or something like that, I don't recall the exact specifics), then the Windows installer won't detect any of the drives. The solution was to physically remove one of the drives, install Windows, and then reconnect the drive. There's a Knowledgebase article about this problem at microsoft.com.
This is also a known problem when trying to install onto drives that have been used with Linux or in a RAID/NAS configuration. If that is the case you may need to low-level format the drives using utility software from the manufacturers website.
As for the monitor problem, a proper monitor .inf file should solve the problem. There should be one on the CD that came with your monitor. |
I have tried all possible HDD setups (2 big ones, 1 big 1 small, 1 big), but it might be I never formated any of them properly... I could try setting one of them up with an extra partition, just to see if anything happens.
None of them have been used as RAID or with Linux. I don't know what NAS is, so I'm guessing that's not a problem either.
As for the monitor, about the third thing I did was to install the driver for the monitor that I got from the developer homepage. I also updated my Nvidia drivers, tried other drivers on random, and tried to force the resolution from a third party software.
Two things I have yet to try on that front is to buy a new (and possibly better) DVi>VGA adapter and install an older version of the NVidia drivers.
But that's all for tomorrow. I'm going to go to bed now.
Thanks for the support, people.