Does the creative have jumpers marked for master or slave?
If not, this is a very good indication that it is not an IDE
reader. Older 486's were not well known for their IDE device
detection. I can remember some that would sit for 2 minutes
at a blank screen before generating an error because the master
drive was not correctly jumpered. For starters, I would confirm
the Reader works. There is nothing to prevent you from booting
to a diskette with ONLY the reader, and no hard disk. If that works,
your trouble is in your CMOS. Did this pc ever have two hard drives?
there could be a holdover setting in CMOS that is incompatible with
a reader. The CMOS should have secondary channel enabled, with primary
device = 'not installed', or auto if you have that choice.
Tom Turak
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From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Alan Priol
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 11:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] VLB motherboard
Your correct, no onboard IDE and a controller card was added. The HD and the
floppy drive are working fine, but add the CD-ROM and the computer will not
boot. Setting the CD-ROM on the secondary IDE slot gets a message HARD DISK
FAILURE. Slaving it to the HD gets no boot at all, just a black screen. The
BIOS is set to boot A,C, and there is no setting for a CD-ROM. The CD is a
Creative 2X and is supported from 286 and up systems. Have tried to get a
BIOS flash update from Tomshardware.com and Motherboard.com but the BIOS
string I give gets no success.
This is the string located at boot-up: 1/4/95-85C471-48617/V2-DG-SIS-00.
maybe one of the list readers can help to recognise the M/Board from it.
Perhaps if I get a second hand PCI board from a local computer fair would be
the way to go. Still I would like to resolve this for my own satisfaction.
Regards,
Alan Priol
On 3 May 00, at 18:16, Alan Priol wrote:
> Will a VLB socket3 motherboard accept a CD Reader? Putting
> together a computer using a collection of spare parts and so far am
> unable to get the M/B to recognize the CD Reader. If this is not
> possible, will do things the hard way.
If I recall correctly, most motherboards of that vintage didn't
include IDE on-board, and so required tha addition of a controller or
multi-I/O card to add this functionality. That *might* be part of
your problem....
Or it could be that your "spare part" CD-ROM drive, of similar age,
is of one of the several non-IDE interface types that were originally
common.
David G
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