having a good weekend?

[dubphaser]

Sonicgirl - I'm guessing, but you may have a bad stick of RAM or a bad mother board. Pull out everything. Put in video, one stick of RAM and hard drive only (set to master on the first IDE port). Double check your connections and that cards are seated in nice and tight. Boot up and check if BIOS is seeing everything. If it is, cool. If not swap out the RAM...go from there... OH and make sure there's no peanut butter in there! Let us know.

[sonicgirl]

it all turns out bad.
I have tryed switching cards in the pci slots 10 million different ways.
The board will actually only see the sound card in two of the 5 slots.

The Bios doesn't see any drive...
IDE Primary Master is the CD Rom... that is all there is.

Am I fucked?

oops... excuse my language.

[sonicgirl]

Put in video, one stick of RAM and hard drive only (set to master on the first IDE port). Double check your connections and that cards are seated in nice and tight. Boot up and check if BIOS is seeing everything

ok I'm gonna try this.
and see what it says.

and I am going to switch out the IDE cable... luckily I have a new one sitting right here.

Oh I have one more question... the ide cable... if I am using an old ass 4GB drive do I need to be using a different ide cable... you know what I am talking about... I had to at one point change my ide cable when I got a new hard drive because you know the hard drive was faster... ok I suck at explaining this crap.

[dubphaser]

I've never had to use a "new" cable with an "old" drive. Try it. It shouldn't hurt anything. You can also try swapping the hard drive and CD-ROM cables.

You can do this!!

[sonicgirl]

ok check this out...
so I switch ide cables
take out a stick of memory
remove the network card...
I turn it on...
it beeps at me.... long ugly beeps... and it doesn't do anything but beep.

So I turn it off... and swap memory sticks...

it doesn't beep.
it boots... but it still doesn't see the hard drive!?!?!?!

I think I should kick it again.

what do you guys think?

jen

[dubphaser]

You're getting there. Make sure the drive is set to master and that no other IDE device is connected.

[sonicgirl]

hey check this out...
so my board has 4 differnet places I could technically stick my ide>hard drive cable...

In this photo... my ide cable has always been plugged into the Ultra ATA 100/RAID Primary IDE controller....

My CD Rom has always been plugged into the Ultra ATA 100 Primary....

I unplugged the CD Rom and plugged in the hard drive... and BAM it sees the hard drive....

freaky or what?
Can I put the CD Rom into the secondary one? Or should I try it where my hard drive was?

[dubphaser]

You can put the CD-ROM in the secondary port or set it to slave (jumper) and chain it off of the hard drive.

[markpar]

Yup, what he said.

Glad it's seeing the HD again!

-mark

[sonicgirl]

ok it still wont boot...
tells me to put in a boot disk...
so I stuck in the floppy let it go...
it saw the C drive I looked at the directory.
I ran Fdisk.... it told me there were no fix disks.
I reboot... it doesn't see the drive anymore.


I can't deal with it anymore tonight.
I seriously get way to angry.

I should just go buy a Mac....

oh yeah, I don't have the $$$

My brother (who recently moved to Germany) has a Mother Board, processor and memory sitting at my moms.... maybe I'll snag that.. I guess I should ask first though!

[dubphaser]

That sucks! Sleep on it and "borrow" the parts from your bro. Good Luck.

[markpar]

I'm with dub. It's either the motherboard (probably the HD controller) or memory. My gut feeling is that the HD controller is dying, but that's just a hunch. Since you swapped out the IDE cable, it sounds like that's not the problem.

Hmm....... this is interesting. I really want to know what's going on!

-mark

[sonicgirl]

Sleep on it

uhhhh yeah I have heard of "computer sex" but I didn't know that was what people were actaully doing.

[markpar]

It's all the rage these days!

I was thinking about it and I realized what's wrong with your computer.

Peanut butter. It needs some peanut butter.

I bet that will fix it.



-mark

[cassembler]

I turn it on...
it beeps at me.... long ugly beeps... and it doesn't do anything but beep.

Your manual should be able to tell you exactly what each beep sequence means, or at least the mfg's website.

I suspect you should be plugging the HD into IDE primary (not the RAID), jumper that to master, and chain the CD ROM to that as a slave. The HD may also have a jumper setting on it like, "Master Alt" or something. I imagine also that the RAID IDE I/O is for two + hard drives on the same chain, and the BIOS is probably like, WTF? there's only one drive here and I can't get I/O from the CDROM. But I have no exp. with RAID arrays.

Just a guess.

And see if the HD came with alternate software for formatting- I find that FDisk leaves things to be desired as far as partitioning & what not, but it's been a while. I could be wrong...

Obviously, if this doesn't work, then take a good squishy bananna and stick it into the 3.5" floppy drive (if any), see if that boots. Never tried the PB idea, but it may work just as well.