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No, you store the images Acronis makes of the "C:" drive on the "D:"
drive. Please review the information at the link provided. Phil wrote: If I do a seperate partition for a program such as Acronis. do I make it that particular partition bootable when setting up the hard drive? Do I install the OS on that partition also or does that get put on while doing the image? Thank you, "Bob I" wrote: You can, it depends on what all you back up there. You would want a separate backup for real important files you store on the 500 GB data area, cause if the drive fails everything on it is gone. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html Phil wrote: Sould the d drive be partitioned to use an area for backup? "Bob I" wrote: Install your apps on C: and use D: for documents, images and movies. As large as D is you can also use it as the storage area for an imaging backup system like Acronis Phil wrote: Just for hahas i redownloaded the wd diag tools and put to a new floppy and it worked. I was able to erase the hard drive and re-install windows. Again I do thank you very much. What I would like to do at this poit is set up everything properly. I have the 40gb hard drive and also purchased a 500gb hard drive, 500 because all they make now are huge and I got it for a very good price. Anyway I out the os on the 40gb. We will also be putting MS office, printer, photo printer and the usual smaller programs and programs for young kids. We do take tons of pictures and keep them. The 40gb was pretty much full. I would like to know the best was to set this up before I begin. Also a question is how do the drives interact with each other? Example, should I put office on D and if so can you access the documents from C. I think the HP picture program should go on D and save all pics to D. because of the room it takes. "Paul" wrote: Phil wrote: on the drive it only has 1.3gb on it. used to be over 25gb. the recovery partition has 4.68gb. I also tried to run the wd diag and it said can not load DOS. I took the drive out and put it back in old machine and booted to floppy and also said can not load DOS ???? Does this mean anything?? This is the contents of the WD diagnostic floppy I just prepared. 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 25,636 IBMBIO.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 33,250 IBMDOS.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 66,433 COMMAND.COM 05/10/2004 01:34 PM 21 AUTOEXEC.BAT 01/18/2005 09:11 AM 9,003 DLGLICE.TXT 11/22/2005 10:31 AM 286,132 DLGDIAG5.EXE 11/29/2005 01:19 PM 10,426 DLGDIAG.txt 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.PRE 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.LOG 9 File(s) 430,901 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,025,024 bytes free I booted this on my current computer, and the prompt on the screen mentions "Caldera DRDOS" is booting. It booted up just fine, and then attempts to run the diagnostic. On my machine, there are no Western Digital drives, so the diagnostic quits. I'm returned to the "A:" prompt. From there, I can run DOS commands. Pressing control-alt-delete, causes a reboot to start, and I pop out the floppy before that begins again. I don't understand why virtually nothing works right on your old machine :-( ******* Can you boot the WD diagnostic floppy, if the hard drive is again unplugged from the old computer ? I know the diagnostic will quit, when it doesn't find a WD drive, but at this point, I'd be pretty happy if we get as far as seeing the Caldera DRDOS message from the floppy booting. Also, are you able to enter the BIOS and examine all the setup screens ? Does the BIOS behave properly ? I'm looking for signs there is some sanity in the old computer. If you change some settings, select "Save and Exit", and then go into the BIOS later, are the settings you changed still there ? Your specs. The motherboard has a VIA KM266 chipset, and the relatively rare Athlon 2600+ running at 2133MHz. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN If this continues in the current downward direction, soon it may be time to clear the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS involves a jumper on the motherboard. You do this with the computer unplugged (that is to ensure no +5VSB is present during the procedure). Clearing the CMOS does two things. It returns BIOS settings to defaults. You should make notes of any custom settings in the BIOS - some people use a digital camera, and take pictures of the screen, before clearing the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS is for times when you just can't seem to get any reasonable behavior from the BIOS. I think this could be your motherboard. There is a description here, of how to clear the CMOS. You don't need to clear the password. The main CMOS is the thing that stores the settings. The main thing to remember is, don't forget to unplug the computer! Failure to remove +5VSB, before using the CMOS clearing jumper, results in a burned component on some motherboards. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN Before clearing the CMOS, you could try entering the BIOS, and under the Exit menu, see if there is a "Load Setup Defaults" option. That might partially reset the CMOS. Maybe you'll be able to boot the floppy after that. Hmmm. This is interesting. Does your machine use a 40 wire or 80 wire IDE cable ? I like 80 wire cables everywhere now, and have no use for the 40 pin ones. 80 wire cables have better signal integrity properties. Every second wire is a ground, helping to define a consistent impedance on the cable. The higher UDMA modes are supported with the 80 wire cable, which is an incentive to use one. http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=122015.0 ******* If you need a motherboard manual to look at, there are some here. There are manuals for three different versions of the MS-6390 KM266 board. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=do...=1&prod_no=307 Paul |
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Couldn't find anything on the Acronis site to setup the new hard drive as
fat32 or NFTS. "Bob I" wrote: No, you store the images Acronis makes of the "C:" drive on the "D:" drive. Please review the information at the link provided. Phil wrote: If I do a seperate partition for a program such as Acronis. do I make it that particular partition bootable when setting up the hard drive? Do I install the OS on that partition also or does that get put on while doing the image? Thank you, "Bob I" wrote: You can, it depends on what all you back up there. You would want a separate backup for real important files you store on the 500 GB data area, cause if the drive fails everything on it is gone. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html Phil wrote: Sould the d drive be partitioned to use an area for backup? "Bob I" wrote: Install your apps on C: and use D: for documents, images and movies. As large as D is you can also use it as the storage area for an imaging backup system like Acronis Phil wrote: Just for hahas i redownloaded the wd diag tools and put to a new floppy and it worked. I was able to erase the hard drive and re-install windows. Again I do thank you very much. What I would like to do at this poit is set up everything properly. I have the 40gb hard drive and also purchased a 500gb hard drive, 500 because all they make now are huge and I got it for a very good price. Anyway I out the os on the 40gb. We will also be putting MS office, printer, photo printer and the usual smaller programs and programs for young kids. We do take tons of pictures and keep them. The 40gb was pretty much full. I would like to know the best was to set this up before I begin. Also a question is how do the drives interact with each other? Example, should I put office on D and if so can you access the documents from C. I think the HP picture program should go on D and save all pics to D. because of the room it takes. "Paul" wrote: Phil wrote: on the drive it only has 1.3gb on it. used to be over 25gb. the recovery partition has 4.68gb. I also tried to run the wd diag and it said can not load DOS. I took the drive out and put it back in old machine and booted to floppy and also said can not load DOS ???? Does this mean anything?? This is the contents of the WD diagnostic floppy I just prepared. 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 25,636 IBMBIO.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 33,250 IBMDOS.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 66,433 COMMAND.COM 05/10/2004 01:34 PM 21 AUTOEXEC.BAT 01/18/2005 09:11 AM 9,003 DLGLICE.TXT 11/22/2005 10:31 AM 286,132 DLGDIAG5.EXE 11/29/2005 01:19 PM 10,426 DLGDIAG.txt 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.PRE 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.LOG 9 File(s) 430,901 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,025,024 bytes free I booted this on my current computer, and the prompt on the screen mentions "Caldera DRDOS" is booting. It booted up just fine, and then attempts to run the diagnostic. On my machine, there are no Western Digital drives, so the diagnostic quits. I'm returned to the "A:" prompt. From there, I can run DOS commands. Pressing control-alt-delete, causes a reboot to start, and I pop out the floppy before that begins again. I don't understand why virtually nothing works right on your old machine :-( ******* Can you boot the WD diagnostic floppy, if the hard drive is again unplugged from the old computer ? I know the diagnostic will quit, when it doesn't find a WD drive, but at this point, I'd be pretty happy if we get as far as seeing the Caldera DRDOS message from the floppy booting. Also, are you able to enter the BIOS and examine all the setup screens ? Does the BIOS behave properly ? I'm looking for signs there is some sanity in the old computer. If you change some settings, select "Save and Exit", and then go into the BIOS later, are the settings you changed still there ? Your specs. The motherboard has a VIA KM266 chipset, and the relatively rare Athlon 2600+ running at 2133MHz. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN If this continues in the current downward direction, soon it may be time to clear the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS involves a jumper on the motherboard. You do this with the computer unplugged (that is to ensure no +5VSB is present during the procedure). Clearing the CMOS does two things. It returns BIOS settings to defaults. You should make notes of any custom settings in the BIOS - some people use a digital camera, and take pictures of the screen, before clearing the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS is for times when you just can't seem to get any reasonable behavior from the BIOS. I think this could be your motherboard. There is a description here, of how to clear the CMOS. You don't need to clear the password. The main CMOS is the thing that stores the settings. The main thing to remember is, don't forget to unplug the computer! Failure to remove +5VSB, before using the CMOS clearing jumper, results in a burned component on some motherboards. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN Before clearing the CMOS, you could try entering the BIOS, and under the Exit menu, see if there is a "Load Setup Defaults" option. That might partially reset the CMOS. Maybe you'll be able to boot the floppy after that. Hmmm. This is interesting. Does your machine use a 40 wire or 80 wire IDE cable ? I like 80 wire cables everywhere now, and have no use for the 40 pin ones. 80 wire cables have better signal integrity properties. Every second wire is a ground, helping to define a consistent impedance on the cable. The higher UDMA modes are supported with the 80 wire cable, which is an incentive to use one. http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=122015.0 ******* If you need a motherboard manual to look at, there are some here. There are manuals for three different versions of the MS-6390 KM266 board. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=do...=1&prod_no=307 Paul |
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Couldn't find anything on the Acronis site to setup the new hard drive as
fat32 or NFTS. "Bob I" wrote: No, you store the images Acronis makes of the "C:" drive on the "D:" drive. Please review the information at the link provided. Phil wrote: If I do a seperate partition for a program such as Acronis. do I make it that particular partition bootable when setting up the hard drive? Do I install the OS on that partition also or does that get put on while doing the image? Thank you, "Bob I" wrote: You can, it depends on what all you back up there. You would want a separate backup for real important files you store on the 500 GB data area, cause if the drive fails everything on it is gone. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html Phil wrote: Sould the d drive be partitioned to use an area for backup? "Bob I" wrote: Install your apps on C: and use D: for documents, images and movies. As large as D is you can also use it as the storage area for an imaging backup system like Acronis Phil wrote: Just for hahas i redownloaded the wd diag tools and put to a new floppy and it worked. I was able to erase the hard drive and re-install windows. Again I do thank you very much. What I would like to do at this poit is set up everything properly. I have the 40gb hard drive and also purchased a 500gb hard drive, 500 because all they make now are huge and I got it for a very good price. Anyway I out the os on the 40gb. We will also be putting MS office, printer, photo printer and the usual smaller programs and programs for young kids. We do take tons of pictures and keep them. The 40gb was pretty much full. I would like to know the best was to set this up before I begin. Also a question is how do the drives interact with each other? Example, should I put office on D and if so can you access the documents from C. I think the HP picture program should go on D and save all pics to D. because of the room it takes. "Paul" wrote: Phil wrote: on the drive it only has 1.3gb on it. used to be over 25gb. the recovery partition has 4.68gb. I also tried to run the wd diag and it said can not load DOS. I took the drive out and put it back in old machine and booted to floppy and also said can not load DOS ???? Does this mean anything?? This is the contents of the WD diagnostic floppy I just prepared. 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 25,636 IBMBIO.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 33,250 IBMDOS.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 66,433 COMMAND.COM 05/10/2004 01:34 PM 21 AUTOEXEC.BAT 01/18/2005 09:11 AM 9,003 DLGLICE.TXT 11/22/2005 10:31 AM 286,132 DLGDIAG5.EXE 11/29/2005 01:19 PM 10,426 DLGDIAG.txt 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.PRE 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.LOG 9 File(s) 430,901 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,025,024 bytes free I booted this on my current computer, and the prompt on the screen mentions "Caldera DRDOS" is booting. It booted up just fine, and then attempts to run the diagnostic. On my machine, there are no Western Digital drives, so the diagnostic quits. I'm returned to the "A:" prompt. From there, I can run DOS commands. Pressing control-alt-delete, causes a reboot to start, and I pop out the floppy before that begins again. I don't understand why virtually nothing works right on your old machine :-( ******* Can you boot the WD diagnostic floppy, if the hard drive is again unplugged from the old computer ? I know the diagnostic will quit, when it doesn't find a WD drive, but at this point, I'd be pretty happy if we get as far as seeing the Caldera DRDOS message from the floppy booting. Also, are you able to enter the BIOS and examine all the setup screens ? Does the BIOS behave properly ? I'm looking for signs there is some sanity in the old computer. If you change some settings, select "Save and Exit", and then go into the BIOS later, are the settings you changed still there ? Your specs. The motherboard has a VIA KM266 chipset, and the relatively rare Athlon 2600+ running at 2133MHz. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN If this continues in the current downward direction, soon it may be time to clear the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS involves a jumper on the motherboard. You do this with the computer unplugged (that is to ensure no +5VSB is present during the procedure). Clearing the CMOS does two things. It returns BIOS settings to defaults. You should make notes of any custom settings in the BIOS - some people use a digital camera, and take pictures of the screen, before clearing the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS is for times when you just can't seem to get any reasonable behavior from the BIOS. I think this could be your motherboard. There is a description here, of how to clear the CMOS. You don't need to clear the password. The main CMOS is the thing that stores the settings. The main thing to remember is, don't forget to unplug the computer! Failure to remove +5VSB, before using the CMOS clearing jumper, results in a burned component on some motherboards. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN Before clearing the CMOS, you could try entering the BIOS, and under the Exit menu, see if there is a "Load Setup Defaults" option. That might partially reset the CMOS. Maybe you'll be able to boot the floppy after that. Hmmm. This is interesting. Does your machine use a 40 wire or 80 wire IDE cable ? I like 80 wire cables everywhere now, and have no use for the 40 pin ones. 80 wire cables have better signal integrity properties. Every second wire is a ground, helping to define a consistent impedance on the cable. The higher UDMA modes are supported with the 80 wire cable, which is an incentive to use one. http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=122015.0 ******* If you need a motherboard manual to look at, there are some here. There are manuals for three different versions of the MS-6390 KM266 board. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=do...=1&prod_no=307 Paul |
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Why? XP will only create 32GB partitions, AND the largest file you can
put on FAT32 is 4GB. Just Format as NTFS. Phil wrote: Couldn't find anything on the Acronis site to setup the new hard drive as fat32 or NFTS. "Bob I" wrote: No, you store the images Acronis makes of the "C:" drive on the "D:" drive. Please review the information at the link provided. Phil wrote: If I do a seperate partition for a program such as Acronis. do I make it that particular partition bootable when setting up the hard drive? Do I install the OS on that partition also or does that get put on while doing the image? Thank you, "Bob I" wrote: You can, it depends on what all you back up there. You would want a separate backup for real important files you store on the 500 GB data area, cause if the drive fails everything on it is gone. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html Phil wrote: Sould the d drive be partitioned to use an area for backup? "Bob I" wrote: Install your apps on C: and use D: for documents, images and movies. As large as D is you can also use it as the storage area for an imaging backup system like Acronis Phil wrote: Just for hahas i redownloaded the wd diag tools and put to a new floppy and it worked. I was able to erase the hard drive and re-install windows. Again I do thank you very much. What I would like to do at this poit is set up everything properly. I have the 40gb hard drive and also purchased a 500gb hard drive, 500 because all they make now are huge and I got it for a very good price. Anyway I out the os on the 40gb. We will also be putting MS office, printer, photo printer and the usual smaller programs and programs for young kids. We do take tons of pictures and keep them. The 40gb was pretty much full. I would like to know the best was to set this up before I begin. Also a question is how do the drives interact with each other? Example, should I put office on D and if so can you access the documents from C. I think the HP picture program should go on D and save all pics to D. because of the room it takes. "Paul" wrote: Phil wrote: on the drive it only has 1.3gb on it. used to be over 25gb. the recovery partition has 4.68gb. I also tried to run the wd diag and it said can not load DOS. I took the drive out and put it back in old machine and booted to floppy and also said can not load DOS ???? Does this mean anything?? This is the contents of the WD diagnostic floppy I just prepared. 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 25,636 IBMBIO.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 33,250 IBMDOS.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 66,433 COMMAND.COM 05/10/2004 01:34 PM 21 AUTOEXEC.BAT 01/18/2005 09:11 AM 9,003 DLGLICE.TXT 11/22/2005 10:31 AM 286,132 DLGDIAG5.EXE 11/29/2005 01:19 PM 10,426 DLGDIAG.txt 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.PRE 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.LOG 9 File(s) 430,901 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,025,024 bytes free I booted this on my current computer, and the prompt on the screen mentions "Caldera DRDOS" is booting. It booted up just fine, and then attempts to run the diagnostic. On my machine, there are no Western Digital drives, so the diagnostic quits. I'm returned to the "A:" prompt. From there, I can run DOS commands. Pressing control-alt-delete, causes a reboot to start, and I pop out the floppy before that begins again. I don't understand why virtually nothing works right on your old machine :-( ******* Can you boot the WD diagnostic floppy, if the hard drive is again unplugged from the old computer ? I know the diagnostic will quit, when it doesn't find a WD drive, but at this point, I'd be pretty happy if we get as far as seeing the Caldera DRDOS message from the floppy booting. Also, are you able to enter the BIOS and examine all the setup screens ? Does the BIOS behave properly ? I'm looking for signs there is some sanity in the old computer. If you change some settings, select "Save and Exit", and then go into the BIOS later, are the settings you changed still there ? Your specs. The motherboard has a VIA KM266 chipset, and the relatively rare Athlon 2600+ running at 2133MHz. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN If this continues in the current downward direction, soon it may be time to clear the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS involves a jumper on the motherboard. You do this with the computer unplugged (that is to ensure no +5VSB is present during the procedure). Clearing the CMOS does two things. It returns BIOS settings to defaults. You should make notes of any custom settings in the BIOS - some people use a digital camera, and take pictures of the screen, before clearing the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS is for times when you just can't seem to get any reasonable behavior from the BIOS. I think this could be your motherboard. There is a description here, of how to clear the CMOS. You don't need to clear the password. The main CMOS is the thing that stores the settings. The main thing to remember is, don't forget to unplug the computer! Failure to remove +5VSB, before using the CMOS clearing jumper, results in a burned component on some motherboards. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN Before clearing the CMOS, you could try entering the BIOS, and under the Exit menu, see if there is a "Load Setup Defaults" option. That might partially reset the CMOS. Maybe you'll be able to boot the floppy after that. Hmmm. This is interesting. Does your machine use a 40 wire or 80 wire IDE cable ? I like 80 wire cables everywhere now, and have no use for the 40 pin ones. 80 wire cables have better signal integrity properties. Every second wire is a ground, helping to define a consistent impedance on the cable. The higher UDMA modes are supported with the 80 wire cable, which is an incentive to use one. http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=122015.0 ******* If you need a motherboard manual to look at, there are some here. There are manuals for three different versions of the MS-6390 KM266 board. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=do...=1&prod_no=307 Paul |
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Why? XP will only create 32GB partitions, AND the largest file you can
put on FAT32 is 4GB. Just Format as NTFS. Phil wrote: Couldn't find anything on the Acronis site to setup the new hard drive as fat32 or NFTS. "Bob I" wrote: No, you store the images Acronis makes of the "C:" drive on the "D:" drive. Please review the information at the link provided. Phil wrote: If I do a seperate partition for a program such as Acronis. do I make it that particular partition bootable when setting up the hard drive? Do I install the OS on that partition also or does that get put on while doing the image? Thank you, "Bob I" wrote: You can, it depends on what all you back up there. You would want a separate backup for real important files you store on the 500 GB data area, cause if the drive fails everything on it is gone. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html Phil wrote: Sould the d drive be partitioned to use an area for backup? "Bob I" wrote: Install your apps on C: and use D: for documents, images and movies. As large as D is you can also use it as the storage area for an imaging backup system like Acronis Phil wrote: Just for hahas i redownloaded the wd diag tools and put to a new floppy and it worked. I was able to erase the hard drive and re-install windows. Again I do thank you very much. What I would like to do at this poit is set up everything properly. I have the 40gb hard drive and also purchased a 500gb hard drive, 500 because all they make now are huge and I got it for a very good price. Anyway I out the os on the 40gb. We will also be putting MS office, printer, photo printer and the usual smaller programs and programs for young kids. We do take tons of pictures and keep them. The 40gb was pretty much full. I would like to know the best was to set this up before I begin. Also a question is how do the drives interact with each other? Example, should I put office on D and if so can you access the documents from C. I think the HP picture program should go on D and save all pics to D. because of the room it takes. "Paul" wrote: Phil wrote: on the drive it only has 1.3gb on it. used to be over 25gb. the recovery partition has 4.68gb. I also tried to run the wd diag and it said can not load DOS. I took the drive out and put it back in old machine and booted to floppy and also said can not load DOS ???? Does this mean anything?? This is the contents of the WD diagnostic floppy I just prepared. 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 25,636 IBMBIO.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 33,250 IBMDOS.COM 07/21/2000 05:44 PM 66,433 COMMAND.COM 05/10/2004 01:34 PM 21 AUTOEXEC.BAT 01/18/2005 09:11 AM 9,003 DLGLICE.TXT 11/22/2005 10:31 AM 286,132 DLGDIAG5.EXE 11/29/2005 01:19 PM 10,426 DLGDIAG.txt 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.PRE 09/16/2009 09:10 PM 0 DLGDIAG.LOG 9 File(s) 430,901 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,025,024 bytes free I booted this on my current computer, and the prompt on the screen mentions "Caldera DRDOS" is booting. It booted up just fine, and then attempts to run the diagnostic. On my machine, there are no Western Digital drives, so the diagnostic quits. I'm returned to the "A:" prompt. From there, I can run DOS commands. Pressing control-alt-delete, causes a reboot to start, and I pop out the floppy before that begins again. I don't understand why virtually nothing works right on your old machine :-( ******* Can you boot the WD diagnostic floppy, if the hard drive is again unplugged from the old computer ? I know the diagnostic will quit, when it doesn't find a WD drive, but at this point, I'd be pretty happy if we get as far as seeing the Caldera DRDOS message from the floppy booting. Also, are you able to enter the BIOS and examine all the setup screens ? Does the BIOS behave properly ? I'm looking for signs there is some sanity in the old computer. If you change some settings, select "Save and Exit", and then go into the BIOS later, are the settings you changed still there ? Your specs. The motherboard has a VIA KM266 chipset, and the relatively rare Athlon 2600+ running at 2133MHz. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN If this continues in the current downward direction, soon it may be time to clear the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS involves a jumper on the motherboard. You do this with the computer unplugged (that is to ensure no +5VSB is present during the procedure). Clearing the CMOS does two things. It returns BIOS settings to defaults. You should make notes of any custom settings in the BIOS - some people use a digital camera, and take pictures of the screen, before clearing the CMOS. Clearing the CMOS is for times when you just can't seem to get any reasonable behavior from the BIOS. I think this could be your motherboard. There is a description here, of how to clear the CMOS. You don't need to clear the password. The main CMOS is the thing that stores the settings. The main thing to remember is, don't forget to unplug the computer! Failure to remove +5VSB, before using the CMOS clearing jumper, results in a burned component on some motherboards. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN Before clearing the CMOS, you could try entering the BIOS, and under the Exit menu, see if there is a "Load Setup Defaults" option. That might partially reset the CMOS. Maybe you'll be able to boot the floppy after that. Hmmm. This is interesting. Does your machine use a 40 wire or 80 wire IDE cable ? I like 80 wire cables everywhere now, and have no use for the 40 pin ones. 80 wire cables have better signal integrity properties. Every second wire is a ground, helping to define a consistent impedance on the cable. The higher UDMA modes are supported with the 80 wire cable, which is an incentive to use one. http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=122015.0 ******* If you need a motherboard manual to look at, there are some here. There are manuals for three different versions of the MS-6390 KM266 board. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=do...=1&prod_no=307 Paul |
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