Bear with me while I explain,
My parents just got a new computer so I took their old one to make an mp3 server. It's a Pentium 133 with 32MB ram, and I just bought a 60GB HD to put in it. I realized that the bios is old and probably wouldn't recognize it, etc, but I thought I'd try anyway. Well, I completely reformatted, made sure everything was running, then I went to add the new hd as a slave. I hook everything up, and it only recognizes the primary channel with 2 hds, but not the secondary channel with a cdrom and a zip drive. Interesting, I think. So I start tinkering, but to no avail. Screw it, I say, and take off the secondary channel completely. Well now the new 60GB hd isn't being recognized. And then the computer kept taking longer and longer to get through posting, and now it just hangs like 2 out of 3 times when I power it up. It doesn't even show video sometimes.
I've spent the better part of a day working on this, and I feel like things keep getting worse the more I try to fix them. Does anyone have any advice or experiences that may help me out? Also, could I have somehow damaged my new hd? I tried hooking it up to a friends computer and it didn't recognize it either, but it still powers up.
What the hell is going on here? I'm desperate.
Thanks for your time,
Graham
My parents just got a new computer so I took their old one to make an mp3 server. It's a Pentium 133 with 32MB ram, and I just bought a 60GB HD to put in it. I realized that the bios is old and probably wouldn't recognize it, etc, but I thought I'd try anyway. Well, I completely reformatted, made sure everything was running, then I went to add the new hd as a slave. I hook everything up, and it only recognizes the primary channel with 2 hds, but not the secondary channel with a cdrom and a zip drive. Interesting, I think. So I start tinkering, but to no avail. Screw it, I say, and take off the secondary channel completely. Well now the new 60GB hd isn't being recognized. And then the computer kept taking longer and longer to get through posting, and now it just hangs like 2 out of 3 times when I power it up. It doesn't even show video sometimes.
I've spent the better part of a day working on this, and I feel like things keep getting worse the more I try to fix them. Does anyone have any advice or experiences that may help me out? Also, could I have somehow damaged my new hd? I tried hooking it up to a friends computer and it didn't recognize it either, but it still powers up.
What the hell is going on here? I'm desperate.
Thanks for your time,
Graham
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