Jim, Since my (grown) son was living with me at the time I needed the MB, etc. upgrade, he installed all this stuff for me. It's possible he just didn't know that he plugged the burners into the primary slot, and since it was working that way, didn't think much about it. My HP CD burner, at one time, wouldn't work unless it was Primary. (HP told me this.) I don't think I'll buy another HP burner. I still don't have updated drivers for it, just out of principle, because they wanted to charge me $10 for the update when everbody else and their brother just provides them on their website.
Okay, well, even though I didn't change the position of the drives on the cable, and they were working before, I still went ahead and jumpered them correctly. However, I haven't been able to get a picture on the monitor to tell how it worked. I called the tech who told me all this stuff to do, and he said he misunderstood. He thought I would be installing the fresh copy of XP on the new drive at the same time. So, since I can't do that until I locate a stinkin' old copy of 95 or 98, he said to put those cards that I switched back in their original position and it should work fine. We'll see. I will do that tonight. I don't understand what the position of the cards in the slot makes a difference--they're all the same kind of slot--unless moving them made the BIOS or Windows or something not be able to find them. I didn't even move the graphics card. You make get a kick out of this. Since I had my box already out and apart, and I was bored--not having any hair left to pull out--so I painted the cd burner and floppy drive front black to match the rest of my case. :) I didn't know if it would work, but the putty color wasn't pretty with the black anyway, so....what the heck. I even taped off the non-painted parts and sprayed it with matt picture varnish (because I paint and had it on hand), so it--hopefully--won't scratch off. Looks great! Well, that's if for now. I'll see tonight what happens now. Diane *.* --- In [email protected], "JIM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Diane, > > Diane, > > >I had to move the CD burner a couple of slots lower > > So your IDE card is a plug in rather than on the motherboard? > Haven't seen that in quite awhile. Since hard disk and CD interface > hardware is nothing fancy there's no big deal if they just include > it on the mother board. Video and Audio cards are different. > Peop;le want choices of these cards these days. > > > plug on the MB. Then I plugged the HDs into the Primary slot. At this > > point, I didn't do anything with the HDs other than switching the > > position of where they were plugged on the MB. > > OK, I guess I misinterpreted what you said above. I would always plug > the hard drive into the primary, master slot. It probably doesn't make any > difference these days but I alwasys think of that slot bein the first one > that the bios looks to for an OS. > > > When I booted it went through the usual startup stuff--to a point. It > > came up with some deal about Maxtor being the primary drive and WD > > being the secondary--which was wrong. > > The bios doesn't lie. It knows where those drives are plugged. OR they > know how they are jumpered. If the WD had the OS on it then I think > you may have to change the jumpers, make certain that the drive with > the OS on it is a master. If there is no slave than it often doesn't matter > where > the drive is plugged in and how it is jumpered. At least I have had a drive > that showed up in the bios as a slave yet it still booted. But as I said, > I always stick with hard drives on the Primary chain and the one with > the OS on the master. I put the optical drives on the Secondary chain, > I guess the order ther doesn't matter much, except I generally put the > top drive as Master. Probably a bit anal. But conventions like that > can save a lot of grief. > > > XP is on the WD and it was plugged into the end of the cable. > > In most cases the position on the cable doesn't matter unless you > jumper the drive as 'cable select'. The jumpers are what determine > thich drive is Master. > > > changed the WD to primary. (Maybe I should't have done that.) > > It probably won't matter, next time you boot it will go where the > jumpers tell it. I think that changing the drives as I described above > will solbe any boot problems. But it's late and someone probably has > told you this already. > > Jim > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
