...okay, the saga continues (and by the way, most older boards including
Pentium do not give the option to boot from CD):
I replace old mo/bo with a Shuttle AT socket 7. POST comes up and correctly
identifies k62 266mhz (I put the P5100mhz to rest) checks the RAM (now I can
use my 64mb DIMM) and chokes on the floppy boot. Floppy disks (i have about
10 boot disks) are all virus-free.
Before we say "bad f/d drive" let me add: after this, computer will not
POST -- I disconnect ALL drives i/o and power and computer ... still no
POST.
Suddenly my memory of what could be another aspect to the scene. My
2-year-old boy isn't as good as his 7-year-old sister at fixing computers
and when I couldn't start the previous board from this power supply, I
looked into it and found a couple screws lodged in the p/s fan (thank you,
little Jeremy). After removing the screws, the system booted the hard drive
into Linux just fine until it checked the volumes and found size mismatch
(this is what then led me to the BIOS flash update).
Could a power supply that is spinning the drives and the CPU cooler be
under-powering and causing these issues?
I'm trying a new power supply as soon as the sun comes up.
I'm sure some of you may be glad to know that there are others like yourself
who set out to make an "easy 150 bucks" only to spend 3 days doing it!!
<grin> <sigh> <Waaaaaaahhhh!!!>
--gary r. tennesen
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ultra
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 3:11 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Floppy gone bad
Believe it or not, it could be the BIOS. I had this problem with Epox (and
other dodgy brand) mobo. No boot disk will work (only works within windows,
but what you need boot disk for if you already in windows?) until I change
another different brand of floppy drive, (usually Sony won't work, but
Panasonic will). since all floppy drives (for PC) are standard, I don't
understand why, but it does happen.
Jun Qian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Graf" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Floppy gone bad
> > Never seen that, have you tried a different boot disk?
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