take a look at the hard drive and cd rom and make sure they are set at the correct jumpers master, slave etc.. Then look in the bios to see what the bios has them set at.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Pike [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:56 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Refurbished systems
> 
> 
> If FDISK can see the drive then you can install the OS on it. 
> If FDISK can't
> see the drive you need to go into the BIOS and make sure that the SCSI
> controller is enabled and the boot sequence is correct. Also 
> depending on
> what kind of SCSI controller you have, it may have it's own 
> BIOS that you
> need to get into. Check to see what the controller is and 
> check the website
> for info on this.
> 
> William Pike
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Hudson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:55 AM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Refurbished systems
> 
> I usually build new systems and repair older ones.  I have had a few
> requests for a basic get online check email burn a cd type 
> machine.  As
> M.Sawyer said in a an earlier post most dont want to by used.  Well my
> customers have indicated that they want to so i bought a few 
> 15 off lease
> systems and all of them have scsi hard drives in them pentium 
> 2 350 mhz 64
> megs of ram all i had to do is ad cd and os and they are out 
> the door in
> theory. Heres the catch I have never had any luck installing 
> an os onto a
> system that has a a scsi drive this particular system does 
> not read the HD
> or cd rom which will pick up in my non scsi machine.  Any 
> Ideas as to how I
> can get this white elephant to get out of the door
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John Hudson
> 
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