Very Very Old Compts

[martymas]

hi team ive done this many times but now im haveing trouble.

i had 2 very very. old compts given to me

so for practice i tooks out the bits in

one and transferred them to another

ok this was successful

im even on the net with it now.

i posted once before about giveing these to intellectually

handicap people

i made a dam good job of it [pat on the back]

they were so old the k-board input was a bold round thing

and the mouse was a screwin type .

now my problem i tried to put one of the hdds

in another compt running xppro.

this drivce had win 98

i used my xp disk to delete the partition .

i had un hooked the master drive, and set the spare hdd

as the slave and deleted the partition that way .

now i cant get the xpsys to recognise the the hdd

i keep getting blue screen

and it keeps taking me to safe mode

ive done it before .

is it the age of the hardware

or have i got the pin set wrong

i tried setting the pin to slave and master but no go

any ideas

marty

[TheTerrorist_75]

Depending on the drives you may have to set the jumper on the Master to Master with slave drive instead of Master single drive. I would just completely unhook the Master drive and temporarily replace it with the drive you want to work on. Set that as Master. Are you trying to use this as a spare drive?

[Pete_C]

Also, remember that some of these older drives and motherboards did not support autodetect and you have to enter the correct type (Cylinders, heads, sectors, parking zone) from the data plate on the drive manually.

I remember those old large keyboard connectors (DB9?) . I think I saw one on a board which supported Pentium 166 , same with the serial mice.

Remember too, that the drive will not show until you partition and format it.

[martymas]

yes thanks guys

pete

yes one of them was so old

when you went to the bios

it just showed 3 selection boxes

with the options.i think 4 in each .

but i took out some of the compoents and used them in the other .

i also got his eddo ram .

and ive benn offered bit of money

so i think ile get the buyer to donate the money to those kids.

in the older compt the ram is held in by wire springs

yes pete this one is a p166 and the other is a p133.

geez i had a headache trying to sort out the lead lines .

there arnt any names on the plugs .

TheTerrorist_75

ok ile try that reset the pin

pete mentioned the partition and format

once i get the drive set up can i

partition and format from the spare compt

sorry to be a pain

but to me im learning slowly

and if it wasnt for people like your selves

compts to me would be at nasa

thanks

marty

[TheTerrorist_75]

You could have left the harddrive in one of the older PCs that works and used a Win98/ME bootdisk to format the drive. There is probably no way you can put XP on any of those. In fact if there is little memory you may have a problem getting anything newer than 98 to run on them.

[martymas]

ok thanks appreciated

marty