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You have specified a VX Motherboard.  If it is a VX-Pro, or a VX-Two they do
not handle SCSI very well at all.  I tried to install a Diamond Fireport 40
on a VX-Two and it kept cutting out my IDE connect.  Removing all SCSI and
replacing with all IDE worked like a charm.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 9:08 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New computer for son.


>I am still building a computer for my son.  I gave up on the P60 and now I
>have a VX mother board, P166, 2gig SCSI, NEC SCSI 6X CD.  My problem is
that
>when I boot from the floppy and load the cd drivers to start to load WIN95B
>2.5,  the system hangs at the same place each time.  Right after it does
the
>scandisk portion and the blue screen changes to black and it says "Setup is
>initializing" everything locks up.
>Here is what I have tried:
>    Different SCSI hard drive.
>    Different CD-Rom drive
>    Different CD-Rom load disk
>    IDE hard drive with the SCSI hard drive removed
>
>Ron
>

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