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Pedro_The_Swift
10th November 2008, 11:39 AM
no, no,, on the old one---;)

visited my sis over the weekend and noticed she was using windows 95
and a whopping 166MHZ cpu,(with a speedy 40mgs of ram!!)

so pulled the old one out of the closet and bingo---

"cannot find Bios on HDD"

no beeps
and it showed that ONCE.
now it wont even give a solid green light on the monitor.
Have reset the battery, tried to reset the CMOS, but that requires a shunt,, removed and replaced ram,
have connected the HDD(200GB Samsung) to ROME and it finds it no problems, can access all files.



anything else I should do to the HDD while its connected to ROME??
abaddonxi
10th November 2008, 12:38 PM
Do you have to set up the bios to recognise the HDD? If the bios battery is flat then it wouldn't remember the HDD bios settings, and older computers had to have that stuff entered manually.

Oh, and it probably won't recognise a 200Gb HDD.

Duh. I should have thought of that first.

Simon
Pedro_The_Swift
10th November 2008, 02:01 PM
the M/B PSU and vid card are relatively new,,,
the MB may be 2 years,,,
do you remember Inc?
abaddonxi
10th November 2008, 02:28 PM
Oops, thought you were talking about the very old one.

Didn't you have bios problems before you put it away?

Simon
incisor
10th November 2008, 02:31 PM
do you remember Inc?
who are you?
:eek:
Pedro_The_Swift
10th November 2008, 02:34 PM
Oops, thought you were talking about the very old one.

Didn't you have bios problems before you put it away?

Simon

very old one now serving very young one :D



who are you?
:eek:


'sigh:(
kaa45
10th November 2008, 11:13 PM
to reset the cmos without a shunt, just touch the pins with a flat blade screwdriver. :twisted:
Pedro_The_Swift
11th November 2008, 12:43 AM
cough*donethat*cough
:angel::wasntme:
abaddonxi
11th November 2008, 08:51 AM
Jumpers on the HDD set to slave?

Simon
Pedro_The_Swift
11th November 2008, 08:58 AM
Morning Simon:D

er,, there IS a jumper on the samsung,,
at one end,,
ROME still boots to Vista so I ASSUMED
my sata drive is being seen as the master,,

what are you thinking about,,,,,?
Pedro_The_Swift
11th November 2008, 08:59 AM
can I boot the samsung to check the OS on there???
JohnF
11th November 2008, 09:47 AM
no, no,, on the old one---;)

visited my sis over the weekend and noticed she was using windows 95
and a whopping 166MHZ cpu,(with a speedy 40mgs of ram!!)



Makes the computer that I use at home [use the net at the Library]; my Pentium 3 650MHZ, 192 Meg of Ram, 30 gig HDD, windows 98, seem like a very young computer.