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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