I tried what you suggested and no luck. It didn't post. I found out that the
hard drive came out of a computer that was hit by lightning. A friend told
me that possibly the drive has a short and that caused the motherboard to go
bad. Does that sound possible? Anyhow I went ahead and ordered another
motherboard and this time i'm going to use a seagate drive I had left over
from another project that I know is good.
Thanks for the help,
Larry Knox
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Please help


> Larry, I can't exactly help you via step by step instructions, but I
> can offer a few tips. It appears that your problem is caused by the IBM
> Diskmanager overlay program, (which fools the bios into thinking the
> hard
> drive is smaller than it is), and by the fact that the machine info on
> the new disk is not the same as the machine you're trying to install it
> in.
> I've read that using "fdisk /mbr" command will remove a disk overlay
> utility, but it didn't work for me when I tried it with a
> Seagate/Ontrack
> overlay util. I had to format the drive to remove it.
>
> You'll have to install win95 clean. I hope you have the Gateway disks to
> install it with the proper drivers for the onboard sound and video.
>
> My first step would be to disconnect the cd-rom and hard drive and boot
> up to see if it posts and displays ok. Then shut down, insert win95 boot
> disk, boot up. If floppy is detected and works OK, shut down. Connect
> hard drive, boot up with w95 floppy in drive, fdisk /mbr .
> Now I can't help any more until I read what happened.
> Larry Hooper
>
>
> Knox wrote:
> > I am working on a computer made of pretty much leftover parts.
>
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