You hit it Nord 1899, the fdd was faulty. I stripped the fdd and cd out of this computer and tried them in my new comp, and bingo, it booted first time off the fdd. So I put win95osr2 on, and it seemed to load okay, but upon restart it failed boot stating an IOS error had occurred. But...
Further to the above. I have reset the bios by moving the jumper across and then re-setting it as part of my original attempts at problem solving. However I did notremove the battery. I said I was new at this, so... the cpu is athlon 1.2 266fsb, what is the correct data to be input on the...
Thanks for the input you guys. All drives are detected. The cd is on the ide2 socket now with the jumper set to master. It still will not boot on any device, no matter which way I configure the priority drives. Don't give up on me, I know the answer is out there. Just as a sideline, is...
thanks your reply. The cable to the fdd is ok, installed correct, the light on the fdd goes on and off as u would expect. This does'nt explain why the system wont boot from the cd though, does it? Currently the blue connector for hdd is on ide1 and the black to hdd, and the cd is on the...
Gday all,hope u can help me cos I want to get up and running. Installed the hardware per manual.HSF is winfop38 and bios cnfms cpu temp 40C. I hv a fdd and cd,hdd is quantum 40mb, gef2mx400, 300watt tower, 256k hyundai ram, and thats it so far. Adjusted bios to reflect cpu speed and chkd fdd as...
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