Got my 5000BE today..woot woot!

[jfenwick]

Once they got down to the low $80's I couldn't wait any longer, had to RMA the first one, was DOA, just put my second one in and we're up and running...have to go get some MX-2, only had some old OCZ stuff around....will OC soon and bench soon. Am curious to see how much a difference I'll see over my 3600+ which was at 3.0.

Actual question to go with this thread...due to some earlier complications with a reformat I added an IDE HD for XP and was running the SATA as extra storage space. So just now I pulled the IDE out to install my cpu and forgot to plug it back in for my first power up. The comp booted up...and into XP...off the SATA, but I know I formatted that HD and never put an OS on it....what happened? where did XP come from? Am I going nuts or is this a normal function of XP as backup precaution in the case that the primary HD is pulled...

[spikoman69]

I doubt it backs itself up like that. Your probably just going crazy. Maybe your brains playing an april fools trick, or your computer. Or they both conspired against you.

[Apokalipse]

Originally Posted by jfenwick

I know I formatted that HD and never put an OS on it

Obvious question, but are you 100% sure you didn't?

[jfenwick]

Originally Posted by Apokalipse

Obvious question, but are you 100% sure you didn't?

100% sure....the original problem was that after the re-format I couldn't get XP to install on the SATA from the CD...formatted and tried to install atleast 6 times and never got XP to work past the login screen. So when I bought the IDE it installed first try and its been my primary ever since....lol, I'm going nuts...