[olug] 486-33 chokes on cdrom

[David Walker]

try the cdrom by itself (jumpered as master). see if it hangs or tries to
boot from a boot floppy

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike McNally [mailto:mmcnally3 at prodigy.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 4:19 PM
To: Phil Brutsche
Cc: OLUG
Subject: Re: [olug] 486-33 chokes on cdrom


On Sun 07 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> You should check to make sure the hard drive and CD-ROM are jumpered
> correctly - ie HD needs to be set for master and CDROM for slave.

I just tried that (2nd time).  It hangs after the memory test with the
number 120 printed below the mem numbers.  In lesser failures, there's an
error that goes:  120secs to allow for controler, or something like that.
Anyway it's a hardware problem involving a harddrive (that works by itself),
a cdrom (quite new and just removed from a fully functioning pc), and an ide
cable (that the harddrive will run on either plug).  That pretty much leaves
the controller, I suppose... BWDIK.



> I've got a whole box full of ISA Intel and 3com ethernet cards if you need
> any :)

Do you think they would be compatible with my 2 existing linksys pci 10/100
cards I am networking with (through a linksys hub)?  I picked up a linksys
for 20bucks but I did feel that was kind of high.  I do have a 14 day return
period.

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Mike McNally		mmcnally3 at prodigy.net

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