My SATA drive does have jumpers with instructions on setting it to master or slave its just I have no jumpers I can try
Its a Samsung F1 1gb drive in a Asus P5Q-EM board if that helps?
Yes its a genuine legit OEM version of Vista. All brabnd new components. I don't have another drive I can try and I can't test the RAM without a working machine.
Hmmm I guess I'll start from scratch and remove things I don't need and see how I get on. I was hoping it was a port problem but apparently not.
So I'll try the first SATA port and one stick of RAM and see what happens.
Thanks for the suggestions.