[ale] [Off topic]Please Help!

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at bellsouth.net
Mon Jul 19 21:30:45 EDT 1999


Matthew -

If I were you, I'd stop worring about putting things back the way they
were and just start from the mobo up, one piece and one drive at a
time.  Did you set the BIOS drive info correctly?  Does this machine's
BIOS have any drive size limitation issue you need to work around?

- Jeff

Matthew Phillips wrote:

> Today I really screwed up my system.
> I read in a computer magazine that if you have
> two hardrives in one system, you should put the
> slower drive on a different ide channel than the
> fast drive because if you don't the slow drive
> can reduce the transfer rate. So today I decided to
> do some tweaking and moved my slow drive onto the
> same ide cable as my cdrom drive which was on the
> secondary ide channel. So I moved the drive, set the
> jumpers, and did the rest of the stuff I need to do.
> I turned on the system.....
> The monitor didn't have a signal, there was no beeping
> from the computer, but the power and harddrive leds
> were functioning. Also the atx power button connected
> to the motherboard also worked. That's as far as it got though.I put
> everything back to the way it was and still could not boot with the
> same symptoms. Can any of you gurus help me? I checked all the cable
> connections and all the standard stuff. This is slightly related to
> linux because if I can't boot my computer, I CAN'T RUN LINUX! Please
> help. Tri
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