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It looks like you have more than one problem. Checking what has been suggested here is a good idea.
However, is the 40 slave to the 20? If the 20 is DMA and the 40 is UDMA and you have UDMA enabled this could cause the startup error. Even if the 40 is UDMA and UDMA is enabled and you have a DMA cable the error could be occuring.
So, make sure you have the right cable. It is better to have the faster (normally newer) drive as the master. If your OS is on the 20 you might want to consider putting the 40 on as the master on the secondary IDE if it supports UDMA (many only support it on the primary).
Make sure to get the latest video card drivers. I use a geForce 2 32mb card and it is important not to use the drivers the manufacturer sent out. Get them directly from nVidia (in my opinion).
Read the other suggestions, put in the patch which might fix your shut down problem. One thing you didn't mention, did it ever shut down correctly. Does your motherboard and case support windows shutdown to power off? Most modern boards and cases do but not all.
Hope this gives you some hints (along with the othe excellent ones given here) to get you on your troubleshooting way.
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I agree with the Windows 98 patch.
In regards to the cable error you're getting at boot all this is saying is that your new drive supports Ultra ATA. There should have been a new cable that came in the box with your drive that will eliminate that error. It won't cause you problems to NOT use it but your drive won't run at it's max speed. The new cables still have 40 pins so they will be compatible with your board but they have 80 wires. Check here for more information.
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Thank you very much for all your ideas and help
Both of my IDE cables are 80 wire, 40 pin. I have gotten rid of the error now by putting both my hd's on IDE0 and both CD's on IDE1. Going to try the shutdown patch right after this post.
In answer to a question posted earlier here by SodaMoca5...my computer at one point did turn off when I hit shutdown. Also, I did download the latest drivers for my video card from the nVidia website.
I have discovered that my system has no problems with freezing if I turn off 3D hardware acceleration/rendering and set all acceleration/rendering to software. Where is the setting to do this to my video driver and have it affect all programs? The way I discovered this is that in one of my games (Unreal Tournament) you can specify hardware or software 3D rendering and it worked fine with software rendering but locked immediatly on loading with hardware rendering. Also, it only locks while playing games that are 3D (Morrowind, GTA3, Serious Sam, Alice). If anyone can tell me where to find the setting I would appreciate it.
Once again, thank you all for your help.
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As silly as this may sound, sometimes the most obvious things are overlooked while we go deep looking for an answer. Just on the off chance you have the same problem i did....check for bad sectors on the hardrive running yer window app. ;)
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After I hooked the two hd's on one hard drive and the cd's on the other the system ran extremely slow, so I hooked it up the old way, the message came back, but it boots fine. Downloading the shutdown patch fixed that problem, but my programs still freeze when I try to run them. I downloaded the most recent video and audio drivers, but that did not help at all. I did run NAV system checker and anti virus, there was a disk integrity problem on my game drive and I fixed it, and it is now that GTA3 wont even get past the load screen
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