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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nazbuster who wrote (5332)	1/20/1999 1:52:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Any luck with the CDROM? If it makes you feel any better I am in the same boat. I got my Toshiba 32x CDROM yesterday...floppy too. I installed the floppy and the light stayed on. Well I new what that was right away thanks to the thread. The CDROM is a different story. My experience parallels yours. Maybe we are missing something basic. In my my IWILL AMI bios Autodetect works a little different than the ABIT Award bios. The Ami autodects all IDE channels at once. The CDROM shows up as a CDROM. The Abit detects them one at a time. I have to yes or no as autodetect proceeds through the four IDE channels. When it gets to the Secondary master there is a choice but I think it is a non choice as it is the same as the empty IDE channels. I can go to user select options in another screen. If I try to find an option to select CDROM manually it does not exist. Can anyone with an ABIT BH6 board tell me what the CDROM looks like in the autodetect screen? Does it spell out CDROM? What would I type in the user select options if I did not want to use autodetect? Maxtor 17 gig drive. The machine does see 17 gig..I think. After updating to Partition Magic 4.0 I was able to see all 17 gig with the drive installed in this 'old' machine. I want to try a clean install rather than dealing with all my old junk. Without the CDROM working it is a little more challenging. I can format the drive in my 'old' machine with a primary partition and an extended partition. I can then copy the Win95 CDROM to the extended partition. If I then move the drive to the new machine can I boot from floppy and then install from the extended partition to the C drive? I think I will rewire some of my fans. The fans are 27 Db and really not that noisy running full blast. I am equally concerned about dust as air flow. The slow fans with the filter restriction are not able to overpower the two exhaust fans. If I hold a smoking match near the case I can detect a small amount of air flowing in where it should be flowing out. It was such a nice wiring job:( Zeuspaul