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Try disconnecting the CD-ROM drive IDE cable - does it work then? This tip showed me what was really wrong with the system...keep reading. KachiWachi: Thanks for the DMA info, it was off, but I did not know of the DMA issue(s) with this chipset. Now I do. Rainbow had me check the IDE cable on the c...

Thanks for the quick replies. I'm @ work now. I'll have to try it later today. Are you thinking the IDE cable or jumper to the CD-ROM could be the fault? There is one thing that I found disturbing with this system: the builder used a hot glue gun to secure ALL connectors! Power, IDE & sound cables ...

That's the one.


JP1 (CMOS clearing) is at the top-left of the board between the 2 ISA slots.
I had to remove an ISA card each time I wanted to set the jumper.
I jumped it for a good 10 minutes to see if that helped. It didn't.

Rainbow: Yes, the jumpers are correct. I never changed them. When I installed the 2nd HDD to dump the files, it worked fine. I should mention that yes, I did clear the CMOS after the flash(s). It just seems odd that the BIOS can see the HDD drive, but not access it. And it doesn't see the cd-rom at ...

BIOS flashed successfully and the system can't find the 24x cd-rom drive and won't boot from HDD either. Here's the specs and what occurred: P166 128mb PC100 2.1gb Fujitsu mpb3021at (4470 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors) Video: SiS 6215C 2mb PCI 24x Goldstar cd-rom Motherboard: Pine PT-7504-AB Rev 5...