Good afternoon everyone,
You all have been so helpful and patient with me with my HDD and FDD
installation woes. I installed both with what I thought was a *breeze*! I
am requesting that you all come to my *rescue* once more, please.
This is all the information I have copied from the system exactly in the
hopes that the hardware gurus < I do so appreciate you guys! > will be able
to tell me what exactly I've done wrong. I've been to the ACER support
site; it's NOT very 'supporting', sent off a note to the tech. support,
installed another FDD, same problem exists with the *same* error msgs.
I installed both a HDD <*this info is on the *back* of the actual HDD > I
have it set to 'Master' within the BIOS and the jumper is in the 'second'
position on the jumper thingy on the back of the HDD_ Maxtor 3.2GB-model-
HDA/uplevel, PCBA/uplevel, unique/uplevel, cylinders: 6218, heads:16,
Master/Single:on, Jumper:J50, S/N: E6Q7AXLA, Slave: off, C.J.D.-B.49,
CT.208C1010NF7B8M,P/N:278774-001, manu. date:06-16-1997 EA,Cable Select:
J48 Installed > and a FDD < TEAC 1.44MB > in my Acer Aspire, specs:
PN:91.AB120.C01
MB: V55LA-N
EXT: 1534
MODEL:1534
RAM: 64MB < upgraded a year ago with no problems >
VIDEO: 1MB
CACHE: 256KB
S/N: 260 105 3886
D/S: AB.097.001
PURCHASED: 04/16/1997
BIOS V2.1 < I'm assuming it's an ACER BIOS as 'bios V2.1' is all that comes
up on the boot screen >
What should the BIOS/CMOS settings be?? < the HD is set at '0' then nothing
on the number '2' setting, nothing on number '3' setting then on the 4th is
says 'ATAPI CD-Rom' and in another section, I have in the boot sequence,
A-C, didn't work, then tried C-A, didn't work, then tried just 'C', nada,
still get the 'drive A: error msg and 'equipment configuration error' > CAn
I set the C-ROM drive as the boot drive?? I installed the HD and FDD fine.
Booted up with a WIN-95 boot disk < is a WIN95- boot disk same as a WIN98
boot disk?>, formatted the HDD, which is set to 'Master' as I replaced the
other HDD and am only using ONE HDD in the system.BUT, I had to secure the
FDD drive, so I took off the cables, screwed it in place, replaced the
cables again, THEN I started getting these error msgs. And now when the
system boots up there is an 'A drive error' and an 'equipment configuration
error'. I went into the BIOS < setup > and selected the 'default settings'
saved and re-booted and still get these error messages. All the cables are
properly attached and connected to the drives the right way. Hard drive
spins, and the A; drive *tries* to read the start-up-boot diskette. What
am I doing wrong?? What should the BIOS or CMOS settings be *exactly*?? Do
I need a BIOS upgrade for this drive? I don't have any extra components
installed; just the monitor, keyboard and mouse. The system is keeping the
correct date and time. I suspect I have changed some of the CMOS/BIOS
settings to the wrong ones, as both HDD and FDD are working, i.e.. the
drive light comes on in the FDD < also used the same cable the old diskette
drive was on, the cable that came with the new FDD just made the system
'beep' continuously when I installed it into the FDD controller on the MB >
and the HDD boots up to C:\ only. Bypasses the A: drive, save for the
configuration errors mentioned previously. Even get the same diskette A:
drive error msg. when I disconnect the cable from the diskette drive! So I
am suspecting I've changed the settings in the BIOS/CMOS/SETUP wrong! <
duh! > I was using a WIN95 OS but am going to install WIN98 when the errors
are fixed.< there is no OS now, only a formatted blank C:\ drive < HDD > as
I can't get past the error messages.>
ANY help/advice/solutions appreciated!!! I'd be pulling out my hair *if*
this was my only optional computer!!
Thank you sincerely,
Patricia Hopkins-Baldwin
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