Hi,

My mate has been given a (old) base unit and he wanted me to do it up for him, so i said yes. But when i put the power wire into the HDD and the other wire (that carries the info) nothing happend when i turned it on? But when i took out the info wire and left the power wire in and turned it on i could here the HDD reading. The same also happend when i put a CD-ROM in, Just power wire = cd draw opened. Power & info wires = nothing.

Please help as i really could do with it. Thank You.

Fred.

P.S. I dont know anything about this old heap apart from it is a pentium 133Mhz / 64Mb ram (the 64Mb ram is using all 4 banks)

-- fred (fred@tybeanie.co.uk), September 08, 2001

Answers

Just another small question... Does anyone have a 550Mhz pentium 3 (slot 1) for sale (cheap). Or if not does anyone know were i can get one from?

Thanks, Fred.

-- fred (fred@tybeanie.co.uk), September 08, 2001.

It is almost certain that you are putting the IDE cables in the wrong way round.

You will notice that one side of the ide ribbon has a red stripe. This needs to be connected to pin1.

It should say on the motherboard IDE connector (very small writing) which pin is 1 and which is 40. It may have a little arrow - all other cables (com, LTP) will have a red stripe facing the right way so match them.

You also need to attatch the red side to pin one on the hard disk and CD drive. This is 99% of the time towards the power connector.

Hope this helps.

Dan

-- Dan Owen (Danowen280209@aol.com), September 11, 2001.

Thank You. I done what you said and all works now. Again Thanks. fred.

-- fred (fred@tybeanie.co.uk), September 11, 2001.