05-24-2005, 12:15 AM
1. I tested the power connectors going to the IDE drives with a voltmeter, following instructions from a website. The voltage readings were as they should be, so there is juice going to the IDE drives.
2. The sort of burned smell comes from the power supply I believe.
3. The floppy drive works. When I attempt to boot from a floppy, the system fails to find any CD-ROM or HD.
4. When I followed this procedure:
Unplug both the data cables (ribbon cables) from the motherboard....
boot up and set the bios to AUTO find Ide devices...
THen plug in ONLY the hard drive's cable....
See if it finds it.... (dont go into the bios, just wait for it to try and boot off it... sometimes the bios only finds it after a long search)
If it doesnt... then plug in ONLY the cd roms... see if it finds this...
The system failed to find the drives. Neither one.
The HD is currently formatted with ME. Should I put it in a different computer and format it with XP? Would that make any difference?
I am afraid to upgrade the BIOS as I have never done it and hear that it is a big problem if done wrong.
2. The sort of burned smell comes from the power supply I believe.
3. The floppy drive works. When I attempt to boot from a floppy, the system fails to find any CD-ROM or HD.
4. When I followed this procedure:
Unplug both the data cables (ribbon cables) from the motherboard....
boot up and set the bios to AUTO find Ide devices...
THen plug in ONLY the hard drive's cable....
See if it finds it.... (dont go into the bios, just wait for it to try and boot off it... sometimes the bios only finds it after a long search)
If it doesnt... then plug in ONLY the cd roms... see if it finds this...
The system failed to find the drives. Neither one.
The HD is currently formatted with ME. Should I put it in a different computer and format it with XP? Would that make any difference?
I am afraid to upgrade the BIOS as I have never done it and hear that it is a big problem if done wrong.