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

To: Steven Bowen who wrote (5693)	1/30/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: jw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Hi Steve,permit me to give you my 2¢ worth. I've been fighting a loosing battle for couple years upgrading my 486 before springing for a Minotaur components and building my own. Some older MOBO (motherboards) only had(1) 40 pin IDE port. Meaning 2 devices. Hard drive and CDROM usually. Hard drive jumpered primary (default) and CDROM jumpered slave. (generally default). Doesn't matter which position on the ribbon they are located. Middle or end. The jumpers take care of that. Now to add another HDD you would have to remove the CDROM (bad scene). I would think to leave the 1.6 as is, jumpered as primary and jumpered the 8.4 as slave. Some one will help with partitions. Now if your MOBO has 2 40 pin IDE ports that's great. Mine didn't. I bought several I/O cards that had IDE ports(40 pins) only to be told by system, You need to upgrade your BIOS. This I did. Only to be told your old BIOS is dated 8/8/93. We don't go back further than 1/1/94. There ain't no end to it. Finally got a board to recognize a LS120 only to hang up in DOS and could not get back into win95. Removed it and went back to original Floppys another story. 1 floppy port (34 pins i think). Ribbons have a twist toward the end. Connector on end recognizes A:, the one in middle is B:, The slotted connectors on some ribbons are the old 1.2" drives. There are adaptors to fit in this slot to convert them to 1.44. In other words you can mix/match them . Ideally if you can find a I/O board (do you have a vacant slot on your MOBO?) with a IDE port perhaps you could move the CDROM here and also add a LS120 drive to the same ribbon. LS120 makes a nice backup device. 120MB. Then have your 2 HDD on the original IDE ribbon. The 166 MHz is a pretty fast machine. If you don't have a 21" monitor, for sure it would give you a different outlook on your present rig. New ATX MOBOs have a AGP port for the Video Card. (fast,64 bits?) PCI slots (32 bits) and a couple ISA slots (16bits). Plus about 5/6 ports are built into the MOBO. (keyboard,mouse,printer, USB, 2 com ports.) Don't think it matters about brand of HDDs. Mix/match maybe OK. Someone help here?. The new UDMA HDDs are the fastest. Backward compatible. Then it would work nice in you new machine. Just run slower in 166. Take none of this for granted. Use it to ask questions from a smarter guy than I. Regards, /jw