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Originally Posted by cjessee
First, on that model of Dell, I remember it being VERY proprietary and picky about a couple of things.
It is very picky about the memory, so just buying off the shelf memory probably will not work. If this is in the cards.
It is also very picky with the jumper settings, you will be better off selecting the "cable select" jumper settting on the hard drive, I have had better luck with hard drives in those machines my doing this.
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I used a bit of hyperbole with extreme makeover. ;-)
No, I'm not going customize anything beyond getting it working.
Bootnuke ran on the hard drive and the BIOS sees the 20G had that
is in there, so I did not monkey with the jumpers or anything on that.
See the recent post that says the CDROM plugged to secondary at the
motherboard gives a 'no drive installed' error.
I swapped in a different CDRW I had and I changed the cable from an
extra one as well. I don't understand how everything on the secondary
plug can be shot. But I will give it one more go with all new parts (from my stock) on cable select instead of master... BRB (Be right back)....
Nope, even with cable select on with all new parts nothing is recognized on
secondary-- not in the boot order which says no cdrom drive is installed
or on the setup which says nothing installed on secondary.