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Old 02-06-2007, 06:42 PM
Nixon
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Re: problems with OptiPlex gx1 drives not found

nevermind, fixed. (jumpers)

Nixon napisal(a):
> Hi,
> i have been trying to use this old dell machine as a router. I removed
> motherboard, power supply and some other thing and put them into new
> chasis. it is a 500MHz pentium3 with 128MB of ram. the computer was
> runnig with 80GB seagate HDD and winxp installed (not an original
> har/software config) without problems before i tookcare of it. i
> replaced hdd to a 40GB seagate, later with 6GB maxtor, and even 2 GB
> WD.
> the problem is that even if BIOS recognizes Maxtor (at least its
> volume, cycls etc) it says at startup that primary/secondary 1 and 2
> drives not found. worse, it does not recognize cdrom (8x TEAC RW). i
> have reseted everything i coul, i was looking into BIOS settings, and
> updated BIOS version with no luck. maxotr was the only drive it could
> recognize in BIOS.
> what is interesting is that after saying drive not found press f1 to
> cont f2 to enter setup, after i quit setup, it loads windows 98
> previously installed on maxtor drive (i installed it on fat using
> diferent machine)
> also once it gave me some plug and play errors after startup
>
> somebody told me that maybe installing windows xp would sort things out
> (in this case installation from hdd only)
>
> if you have any ideas, how to fix it, plese help me
> nixon


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