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Welcome to TSF:
The first thing you are going to have to do is get your boot drive (OS on it ) to accept the setting of MASTER
you will need to make sure your boot drive is at the end of the IDE cable and the opposite end of the same cable is in the blue primary IDE connector @ the mobo
make sure the jumper settings for the boot drive are set to Master then / upon restart enter bios and check to see if bios detects the boot drive as the primary master / set the boot order to boot from the primary master as the second device i.e. your boot order should look like this
1st = floppy A
2nd = primary master
3rd = cd-rom drive
if these settings occur ????? then connect your other drive jumpered as slave ??? but dont add slave until you can boot your computer and enter bios and see the boot drive as primary master and booting !!!!!
if this requirement does not happen then clear the CMOS / and try again
clearing CMOS
shutdown computer
remove pluig from electrical wall socket
remove cmos battery from socket (shiny thin watch looking battery about one inch in diameter on motherboard)
leave battery removed for one hour
reverse above steps / and fire up computer
enter bios / and choose "load default settings"
then exit bios / dont forget you must find the save changes and exit bios command
print this out before you begin / these steps should cure your problem.
PS / if you dont things resolved prior to the CMOS clearing then unplug the salve drive / during the cmos dump we dotn want the salve to be seen my the computer / dont connect it during the restore bios defaults ~~ exit and save changes - after you have restarted the computer from the bios defaults steps do a shutdown and reconnect the power plug to the hard drive then fire back up ????
let us know how your progress / ask more questions if needed
regards
joe
The first thing you are going to have to do is get your boot drive (OS on it ) to accept the setting of MASTER
you will need to make sure your boot drive is at the end of the IDE cable and the opposite end of the same cable is in the blue primary IDE connector @ the mobo
make sure the jumper settings for the boot drive are set to Master then / upon restart enter bios and check to see if bios detects the boot drive as the primary master / set the boot order to boot from the primary master as the second device i.e. your boot order should look like this
1st = floppy A
2nd = primary master
3rd = cd-rom drive
if these settings occur ????? then connect your other drive jumpered as slave ??? but dont add slave until you can boot your computer and enter bios and see the boot drive as primary master and booting !!!!!
if this requirement does not happen then clear the CMOS / and try again
clearing CMOS
shutdown computer
remove pluig from electrical wall socket
remove cmos battery from socket (shiny thin watch looking battery about one inch in diameter on motherboard)
leave battery removed for one hour
reverse above steps / and fire up computer
enter bios / and choose "load default settings"
then exit bios / dont forget you must find the save changes and exit bios command
print this out before you begin / these steps should cure your problem.
PS / if you dont things resolved prior to the CMOS clearing then unplug the salve drive / during the cmos dump we dotn want the salve to be seen my the computer / dont connect it during the restore bios defaults ~~ exit and save changes - after you have restarted the computer from the bios defaults steps do a shutdown and reconnect the power plug to the hard drive then fire back up ????
let us know how your progress / ask more questions if needed
regards
joe
