Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Hardware/Software - Arrgh! 500mhz is NOT fair...
| User | Post |
HyperLamer
Posts: 547/8210 |
I usually just set them to Master when they're alone and it all works. As for the floppy disks, what happens? Can you read them in Windoze? DOS? Does the BIOS detect the drive? (FYI: If the disk access light is always on, the IDE cable's connected backward.  ) |
neotransotaku
Posts: 535/4016 |
it won't read floppy disk? does bios recognize the drive? if so, does windows recognize the drive? if so, are you sure you didn't plug in the IDE cable for the floppy upside down? if you are sure, the flip it around, (i.e. bring the red side of the cable to the other side). if that too fails, then well, you need to buy a new floppy disk drive...
side note on jumpers and HD/CDs
if the drive is by itself, you should NOT be using jumpers. it took me 5 years and many computer rebuilds later to finally realize that you should only use jumpers if a cable is connecting two drives to the motherboard--if i had realized that earlier, then i might have saved myself some frustration of why stuff didn't work... |
theclaw
Posts: 48/202 |
Everything works, except for the fact that it won't read floppy disks.
The computer is now using a 1.1ghz Athlon XP CPU with Windows XP as it's OS. I did this to run newer games. My Windows 2000 CD is legal (only cost $2 though), but XP isn't (got from Kazaa and burned it). One of the problems I missed the first time was that both CD-ROM drives had their jumper on slave. |
neotransotaku
Posts: 534/4016 |
Originally posted by theclaw
1 - the system won't boot from CD-ROM drives (it seems to freeze up)
What's the best solution? I need to build a faster computer without reformatting my HDD.
1) Are you sure you have CD-ROM coming before HD in the boot up process?
2) Are you sure you are using a CD-ROM that is bootable?
3) If your Win2k is a burned copy, are you sure that is bootable?
As for reinstalling the OS, you do NOT need to format the HD to reinstall windows if you don't want to. The minimum you need to do is to get rid of ntldr and boot.ini (preferably after booting on a Win98 boot disk). |
kitty
Posts: 915/2449 |
Win 2K will NOT boot on that machine if it's the install from the previous one. The system loads drivers, including IDE drivers, specific to hardware/mobo, and they are incompatible, it won't even boot in safe mode. I'd suggest a system repair by booting off the W2K CD (which takes a while to boot) but you say it freezes... |
theclaw
Posts: 47/202 |
I've tried several different ideas, but simply cannot get any system over 500mhz to boot properly. My first plan was to just use a Slot1-Socket370 adaptor to add an 800mhz CPU. The CPU did nothing at all, even in a normal socket 370 MB.
So, I thought "how about a completely new MB?". I got a Asus A7V8X-MX SE board, one 256mb memory chip, and an AMD processor. After everything went into my huge full-tower case, it has these problems:
1 - the system won't boot from CD-ROM drives (it seems to freeze up)
2 - Windows 2000 gets a "stop error" and acts like the hard drive might be damaged. That's doubtful, because I'm using the same one to type this post.
It's not the IDE port(s), Windows wouldn't even be able to reach an error prompt.
What's the best solution? I need to build a faster computer without reformatting my HDD. |
|
