I looked around but i wasnt able to find the answer to my question.
I am fixing my friends computer and am a little stumped. He has problems where it restarts and sometimes it gets errors and it does a CHKDSK when it boots up.
He is running a 2.0 GHz AMD with 512MB of ram on a XP Pro.
My question is because he already has a DVD RW 3 hard drives and some 64MB vid card he went ahead and plugged a Single 320GB SATA drive into one of the RAID Controllers ports. Are raid controllers able to function that way or is it STRICTLY for raid?
I am thinking that his problems might be caused by that or the fact that he runs 4 Hard drives, vid card, dvdrom and a fan off a old 320Watts ATX power supply.
Let me know what you guys think it be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I am fixing my friends computer and am a little stumped. He has problems where it restarts and sometimes it gets errors and it does a CHKDSK when it boots up.
He is running a 2.0 GHz AMD with 512MB of ram on a XP Pro.
My question is because he already has a DVD RW 3 hard drives and some 64MB vid card he went ahead and plugged a Single 320GB SATA drive into one of the RAID Controllers ports. Are raid controllers able to function that way or is it STRICTLY for raid?
I am thinking that his problems might be caused by that or the fact that he runs 4 Hard drives, vid card, dvdrom and a fan off a old 320Watts ATX power supply.
Let me know what you guys think it be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.