Problem booting from disk

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

> Not being facetious but have you set the HD jumpers to be the 
> master or
> stand-alone?  Make sure the IDE cable is plugged into the mb with the
> pins aligned right?  Older motherboards often don't have the guides on
> them.  Also, some bioses (IBM's come to mind) keep giving the error
> until you enter the bios and exit saving changes.  

The old drive is set to master.  The new drive was set to master when
attempting it alone, and slave when attempting it with both drives (both
drives on the primary bus, the CD on the secondary bus).  I've had bad luck
with cable select, so I avoid that.

The IDE cable is still plugged into the MB as it was when the machine was
working fine to start with.  I'll check that again when I get home, though.
I've had to unplug and replug everything on an MB to make a machine come
back to life before.

I exited the BIOS saving changes several times.  When it didn't work the
first time I tried taking the HD out of the boot list and had to save that
change.  To get to the reboot from HD (to continue the install) I had to put
it back in, saving again.  The MB isn't that old -- an Abit VL7 model, IIRC.


In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,

Tom  ;-})

Tom Condon
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