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Sounds reasonable as the cables are cable select.
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Sounds reasonable as the cables are cable select.
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here is a little clip of the article I read on promise's website to prove my theory...I also went back and read GG1's posts about what kind of hard drives he bought and what he installed in the compaq WESTERN DIGITAL is the problem "If your HDD is from WD, and it's the only device on the cable, remove ALL the jumpers from the HDD. If the problem still exists, contact tech support with the following information."
now if you all could help me.....My ata66 card will find both my western digital hard drive and my cdrom drive when booting and the promise bios detects them but under my dual boot win98se will find the hard drive but no cdrom and win2k will not find either...the card shows a big splat under win2k...and a little splat under win98....but I can access the hard drive in win98 my computer and windows explorer...??? This is a bare card purchase it did not come with a manual I had to download it from www.promise.com also the drivers and I cannot get it to work right yet.....there is a bios update for the card but I cannot get it to work as it says "file is incorrect" while trying to flash weird...
On many drives there is a jumper setting for being the master in a master/slave (2 drive) setup, but when only a single drive is being used it is common for there to be another jumper setting, which freuqently is to have no jumper on. It's called single-drive master. But no matter what the jumper reuqirements, if the jumper is not correct then the system (be it the motherboard bios or an Ultra card bios) then the drive won't be detected. From Goose's descriptions it is not that the drive is not being seen as present, just that it can't be read. Wrong or right GG1?
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scarecrowdr,
Hmmm. If those are the defaults that got loaded, and it shows 10 for the cpu ratio then it looks like that is a model B Athlon afterall. If so the it runs with 10 and an fsb of 100. Why Sandra shows it as 996mhz is odd, but probably not work worrying about.
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Hi All, Just got back. Let me check this out Sarkazztic.
DrMDJ, The monitor said the os could not be found as I recall.
Hmmmmmm, Sometimes the simplest things are overlooked. Be back. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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HDD is jumpered as Single .
MAXX
Browse your eMachine cd and read the readme.txt
You will find it is a bootabe cd and it has setup.exe in there. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
So you will be able to fdisk/format a new hdd and install the eMachine stuff.
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Thanks for the info...
You aint gonna believe this, but right after I got your message, I went looking for the disk...ummmmm...I can't find it. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
I'm not worried, though. It has to be here somewhere. Assuming that it is the same as the one you are working with (I don't see why it wouldn't be), I might as well skip the restore process and just get a new drive for the little guy. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Lots of bargains out there, now. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Question....we have had many discussions about restore discs not being browsable. Can I now assume that Emachine is doing something different from HP and the others? Or have I missed the part about what defines browsability? (If that is a word). https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Hold control and open through my computer. Does not try to install that way.
I opened my computer, inserted cd holding ctrl and when the cdrom light stopped, I opened it.
Readme.txt is 4 pages printed out.
Found the setup and the darn thing is bootable. Should have saved the txt file to harddisk https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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remember to look at drive info from within highpoint BIOS
CTRL + H to get in there.
mobo BIOS won't see no drive on the highpoint.
just remember that
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train
change to drive you want to delete system of.
like C:
then make sure you are in root
CD\
then
attrib -r -s -h *.*
del io.sys
del msdos.sys
del command.com
(this deletes the system files in root of chosen file)
it won't boot, even if active.
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scarecrowdr
I missed information on the motherboard you have.
all boards for AMD (duron and athlon) I saw have a jumper to select memory clockspeed.
even the two I saw with DDR have it.
(of course, I have seen only seven models)
BUT, if that athlon does NOT support fsb 133 (doublerate=266), you will experience a non boot system
it just wont.
in a way, that the beaty of it.
while set to 100, it boots, and will often run at lower speed.
(they was clock multiplier locked, but some mobo circumvent that?)
but if it does not support it, it wont boot, and thus it protects itself.
I experienced this non-boot myself, and seen it happen twice.
I also saw some run while set to the lower clock for fsb.
so, tell us what motherboard this is?
look at the manual
I would think AMD have a CPU identification tool (just like intel have.)
armed with this, you can find out what this thing is capable off.
as an aside.
what's easier..
sayin 1100 or 1133?
many vendors refer to a 1133 as a 1100
and the 1133 is a fsb 266 chip.
(I just sold the epox and 1133 I ran some trials on. I don't wanna see it fry like in the movies. after the movie show, I soon got a taisol wich latches onto all six hooks instead of the coolermaster which latches over only two....)
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How about a step by step using xcopy to copy partition to partition?
Would appreciate it.
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OK i give up....I have been at this ata66 install for almost 8 hours....I have tried every workaround and hack that they have listed at www.promise.com and I cannot get the drivers to install correctly for this card. It will see the hard drive in windows but not the cdrom that is attached also and there is a splat in device manager and a note that the drive is running in msdos compatibility mode. I have tried all the acpi work arounds all the IRQs yadda yadda yadda....I am about to have a promise ata66 frisbie party. or some skeet shooting https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Hi All, I haven't checked the highpoint bios as Jaak said yet as I just came back up online. Procedure did not work.
DrMDJ, the HD is not detected with the ATA100 card installed.
Sarkazztic, I had the same results as before.
To review, I installed the WD 40GB HD, pationed and formatted to the MOBO through the original ribbon cable. Using the Compaq Recovery disk I had made, I was then able to use the two Compaq Restore disks. Then When I receceived the Ultra card, I installed it and the adapter cable. Without the HD on the the card I installed the drivers and in device manager it confirms that they are installed. Yet when I connect the HD to the adapter cable which is connected to the ATA 100 card the monitor says there is no Driver 1, 2 or 3 is intalled and then the screen
says "no operating system installed".
Question: Should I have connected the HD to the ATA100 card and partitioned and formatted through the ATA 100 card to the HD after I had set up the ATA100 card?
Originally I installed the cards drivers after I set up the HD.
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Jaak??? Mind if I use this as my new signature line? It pretty much sums up all my most innermost thoughts and feelings on the price of potatoes in Kentucky.Quote:
Originally posted by jtdoom:
(I just sold the epox and 1133 I ran some trials on. I don't wanna see it fry like in the movies. after the movie show, I soon got a taisol wich latches onto all six hooks instead of the coolermaster which latches over only two....)
And I mean this with the kindest heart..and the hugest grin.......when I say.......WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN????
Daizy
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Hi Daizy, Replaced cooling fans on CPU. How ya doing? https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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