Please help with upgrading old Pentuim...

[TeABaG88]

I recently took out a 4x cdrom and replaced it with a 16x cdrom in my friends old pentium computer. After I (finally) got the case off, I replaced the drives and set the cdrom as the slave, just like the previous one. Now when i turn it on, I get a hard disk error and I cant get the motherboard to boot from the hard drive. I never changed any settings and i got errors. I thought that I could just replace the two drives and everything would be fine but i cant even get the computer to boot. It gives me a "hard drive error". So i then switched the jumper setting on the motherboard to clear cmos and then switched it back to normal and still got the same error. I dont know what I am doing wrong and i assumed that this would be very easy, but I was wrong. The motherboard is a very old IBM model. The BIOS will detect the drive and it is listed as the 2nd boot device, but i just can't figure it out. Also when i try it with a 4 gig drive it only recognizes it as a 26 mb drive?? What am i doing wrong? Thanks...

 

[Iron Woode]

maybe the cd drive's jumper is not set right.

 

[jfunk]

I'm not clear on exactly what is happening here.

What are the "two drives" you are replacing. I thought you were only changing the CD-ROM....

Also, the 4gig may not work because the BIOS is too old to detect it. Might be fixed with an update, but thats really not the issue here.

Anyway, what drive is listed as the second boot device?? His HD?

Try disconnecting the CD-ROM and see if it boots again. Then, take out the HD and check it's jumpers too. Mabye it is set to cable select or something like that. Doublecheck your jumpering of the CD-ROM too. Also, don't forget to try a different jumper too. The jumper might be missing the metal peice and not actually jumpering anything.


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