sitll ain't workin....

[squigees]

hey confused, thanx for the reply, but i am still dazed..the problem right now though is i took out my old hard drive already and the new pc is at it's original config with the cdrw at it's original place(or at least what i think it's at)witht the cables properly connected...then when i boot it up, the monitor won't turn on until 30-40 secs into the boot...

[glc]

Please use the Post Reply button, not the Post New button. It's very confusing when you have multiple threads going on the same subject.

[Confused]

I'm not sure you have a problem there. You say monitor doesn't come on until 30 sec. into boot. I take it that it does come on? During a boot the screen will go blank (read black) for a period of time, then the BIOS info and memory will start to be displayed, go blank again and then start displaying Windows screen. So lets start from here, keep one thread going and determine that it does or does not boot up to Windows.

If it isn't booting up, remove the connector ends from the CD-ROM and CDR, not from the motherboard, only the new PC HD will be connected. The reason we are doing this is if putting things back you put two masters on same IDE, then sys. may have problem booting. We'll get this thing booting, then get the rest of your drives in there including your old HD.

Chas

PS
I tried to email and help but you have your mail blocked.

[Edited by Confused on 03-17-2001 at 06:31 PM]