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So my rents have this computer from their office, an old PII system running on 64 megs of ram. I've installed XP on weaker specs and it ran fine so they decided to have XP installed on it and then donate it to some poor family.
Initially it had Windows 98 on it, but I booted up the XP CD and had the 6gig hdd quick formatted. It got to the XP setup screen, but I had to manually close the computer because we had an appointment to make and I decided to bring it home to work on it.
At home, I disassembled it completely and reassembled it for curiosity's sake and to fix a rattling problem which was simply a cord hitting the psu fan. So I start it up, and none of the IDE devices can be detected! I checked the jumpers on the hdd and cd-drive and tried various combinations. In the end, what made sense to me was, having the hdd on the primary IDE channel set to single and plugged on the top master position on the IDE cable. As for the cd-drive, i have it jumped on cable-select, plugged into the secondary IDE channel to the master IDE cable plug.
Still doesn't detect **** except the floppy drive is detected and is running fine on a seperate IDE channel called "Floppy" (its printed floppy directly on the motherboard under the IDE channel, the IDE plug itself is smaller than the reguar IDE plugs. This is an old motherboard, a Foxconn I believe.. I took the hard drive and put it into my newer system under primary master and jumped to default factory "single" setting, not the alternative "single" setting. It detects it perfectly, however, after putting back into the older computer still nothing. Primary master and slave, and secondary master and slave are not detected at all.
I thought maybe the molex connectors were faulty, so I ran a molex connector from the psu of my newer computer onto the old hdd and still, no detection.
I'm speculating that maybe it has to do with these wired jumper things on the bottom right-hand side of the motherboard, you know the stuff for the power switch and reset button? They're labeled pwr sw, reset sw, hdd led, power led and audio (that one connects to and old school internal speaker which I removed completely) I'm pretty sure I had no clue how to attach those things, I just kept on testing it out until the power and reset switches worked. Do you think this matters at all?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Initially it had Windows 98 on it, but I booted up the XP CD and had the 6gig hdd quick formatted. It got to the XP setup screen, but I had to manually close the computer because we had an appointment to make and I decided to bring it home to work on it.
At home, I disassembled it completely and reassembled it for curiosity's sake and to fix a rattling problem which was simply a cord hitting the psu fan. So I start it up, and none of the IDE devices can be detected! I checked the jumpers on the hdd and cd-drive and tried various combinations. In the end, what made sense to me was, having the hdd on the primary IDE channel set to single and plugged on the top master position on the IDE cable. As for the cd-drive, i have it jumped on cable-select, plugged into the secondary IDE channel to the master IDE cable plug.
Still doesn't detect **** except the floppy drive is detected and is running fine on a seperate IDE channel called "Floppy" (its printed floppy directly on the motherboard under the IDE channel, the IDE plug itself is smaller than the reguar IDE plugs. This is an old motherboard, a Foxconn I believe.. I took the hard drive and put it into my newer system under primary master and jumped to default factory "single" setting, not the alternative "single" setting. It detects it perfectly, however, after putting back into the older computer still nothing. Primary master and slave, and secondary master and slave are not detected at all.
I thought maybe the molex connectors were faulty, so I ran a molex connector from the psu of my newer computer onto the old hdd and still, no detection.
I'm speculating that maybe it has to do with these wired jumper things on the bottom right-hand side of the motherboard, you know the stuff for the power switch and reset button? They're labeled pwr sw, reset sw, hdd led, power led and audio (that one connects to and old school internal speaker which I removed completely) I'm pretty sure I had no clue how to attach those things, I just kept on testing it out until the power and reset switches worked. Do you think this matters at all?
Thanks in advance for the help.