Impressions...
I was under the impression that people were supposed to be helping others..
I put out information that I verified prior to. you guys enjoyed jumping on the band wagon and flaming a person...
Oh well.
AS for info..
I have noticed over and over again on this board that people are coming here asking for help, and it is the identical same questions over and over.
Most motherboards are basically identical, at least in layout.
Granted the cpu's may change, but they use industry standard connections.
Granted the Memory may change, but then again they use industry standard..
In addition the HDD change, and this drastically in short periods of time, however the interface for the HDD to the motherboard is an industry standard.
Most of these things do not change, the interface does not change..
Take a look at these photos on this page, follow the settings going through.
http://www.buildeasypc.com/hw/howto/insthdd.htm
AS you idiots can tell, the second page photo shows that what I said on the IBM Desktore HDD IDE settings as a Master drive being set to Master, and being placed in the master portion of the ribbon cable and connected to the motherboard is layed exactly as I detailed. Exactly as I checked prior to putting it out on your board.
Maybe if you idiots would check things out prior to mouthing off because you want to do something first instead of verifying it, others begging you for help might get help they can and could undertand.
Also a granted, maybe on a SCSI the settings might be different, but I did not say a SCSI drive, I said point blank IDE connection.
Ther are 3 connection spots on the cable.
1 off to one end, away from the other 2.
Usually the end connectingto the motherboard, has a nick or block, or notch in the middle on one side, to line the connection up in the right direction, this is NOT always true on each and every cable...
The middle one is the master location as shown in the instalation photo.
and the oposite end is the Slave.
Also shows explicitly these connection being made..
I would suggest prior to flaming shomeone in the future you lousy idiots should go out and do some studying your own *amn selves..
I did learn about this board though,it is a buddy board, it is not meant to help people, you guys enjoy to *amn much flaming others who try to unconfuse people...
And yes, an each Mboard I encounter that I have not personally had before, I never work on it until AFTER I read the manual, In fact, quite often I go ahead and read the *amn manual anyway, just to refresh myself and make certain I don't make mistakes...
In addition a few Mboards that come into my shop no longer have manuals, on those that do not , it is not a problem to get the bios string, feed it into the net, find the manufacturer using that bios string, and download not only the manual, but the original and updated drivers for whatever board I am working on..
NOw IF the owner of this board were to take notice, of what is going on with the threads on this board, he might do something besides helping flaming people honestly helping...
He might read or reread the threads, and see what is going on..
It would not be hard or difficult to take a couple of photos of settings, the generic ones, showing a general Mboard hooking up cables, memory, cpu even... offering helpful advice...
Then place a link to these generic answers when peoople ask questions about them. But then that may be too much work for idiots as on this board...
It seems that of the human race 40% or so are visual people, they have to physically see something going on before they can do it, they others can generally surmise from reading about something.