[ale] [Off topic]Please Help!

[Jeff Dilcher]

chances are you did not set the master/slave jumpers properly-
Each IDE port has a master and slave device, and each drive can be
one or the other.  Also, you have to go into your systerm's
bios and change the settings to reflect what changed you made.

If this makes no sense to you, you should put it back how you
had it, as the aggravation to get it working would probably outweigh
the minimal performance increase!



-----Original Message-----
 From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Matthew
Phillips
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 8:01 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] [Off topic]Please Help!

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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