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I got me a cheap 700MHZ box from a friend for $100 (aus) with:
Intel P3 700MHZ slot 1
256+256+128=640MB SDRAM
ATI Rage IIC
Nvidia TNT2 Pro - I chose to use the TNT2 Pro over the ATI Rage IIC
not sure what motherboard
8x CDR/RW
sound card, NIC, modem
and I'm using my 21" monitor which I bought a while ago
first of all, what do you think of it all, for $100 aus
it has only 1 IDE cable but there are 2 IDE channels, I set the HDD to master and the CD burner to slave
when I got it all together and booted, it went through POSTing and didn't detect my HDD or the CD burner
it gave me the messages: primary master HDD fail, and that was with the HDD on the secondary channel too
and I got: floppy disk drive fail <- that's probbably because I haven't got one in it
so now I'm gonna get a new cable to test if it is the IDE cable, if it isn't, then I've got an extra IDE cable and I can run the HDD and CD burner on different channels, but I'd need to get a PCI IDE controller
but if it is the cable, then I'll be set
what do you guys think it is, the cable or the controller?
Intel P3 700MHZ slot 1
256+256+128=640MB SDRAM
ATI Rage IIC
Nvidia TNT2 Pro - I chose to use the TNT2 Pro over the ATI Rage IIC
not sure what motherboard
8x CDR/RW
sound card, NIC, modem
and I'm using my 21" monitor which I bought a while ago
first of all, what do you think of it all, for $100 aus
it has only 1 IDE cable but there are 2 IDE channels, I set the HDD to master and the CD burner to slave
when I got it all together and booted, it went through POSTing and didn't detect my HDD or the CD burner
it gave me the messages: primary master HDD fail, and that was with the HDD on the secondary channel too
and I got: floppy disk drive fail <- that's probbably because I haven't got one in it
so now I'm gonna get a new cable to test if it is the IDE cable, if it isn't, then I've got an extra IDE cable and I can run the HDD and CD burner on different channels, but I'd need to get a PCI IDE controller
but if it is the cable, then I'll be set
what do you guys think it is, the cable or the controller?