what is Bluetooth Network Connection and how is work plz tell me On 12/12/10, saqib nadeem <[email protected]> wrote: > i am a student of bs-it and study the course network security ...........my > sir give me a project ...............(implementing partial password policy > to prevent any single use to change password)............plzz guide me how i > start and also in which language > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, V A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Was the original hard drive the boot device? If so, can you make the new >> drive bootable and see if it boots from it? I'm wondering if the BIOS >> needs >> to boot from the hard drive if it finds one. >> >> HTH. >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:48 AM, brucehvn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A client of a company I work for gave us an old AST 286 machine (512K >>> ram) that they have been using for many years, but the old original >>> hard drive had finally started giving out. It was an old MFM or RLL >>> drive. >>> >>> I decided the best course of action was to remove the existing fixed >>> disk controller card and replace it with an IDE controller and one of >>> many old IDE 1 to 5 GB hard drives I have. >>> >>> I purchased a Promise EIDEMax II IDE controller card from eBay, brand >>> new in the box. At first when installing it into the 286, it acted as >>> if the card was not recognized at all. There was no sign of the >>> card's bios at boot time and running their plug and play configuration >>> utility would just hang as if it could not find the card. I put the >>> card in a different machine and was able to run the PNPUTIL program to >>> disable PNP support and configure the card with standard parameters as >>> described in the manual. >>> >>> When I put the card back in the 286, it was recognized, the bios >>> screen comes up, I can even go in the card's bios and change settings >>> as necessary. Everything seems to be happy. However, once I connect >>> any IDE drive to the controller, it hangs at boot at the point it >>> should be displaying the list of detected drives. According to the >>> manual, it should display the list of drives, then the message "BIOS >>> installed successfully" and then continue to boot. If I disconnect >>> the drive cable, then it boots up from a floppy with no problem. I've >>> tried 4 different hard drives ranging from 1 to 4.6 GB, Fujitsu, >>> Quantum, and Seagate brands, but no luck. All the drives have been >>> tested and definitely work in another machine. I'm using DOS 6.0 to >>> boot, but at the point of the hang, nothing has been loaded yet from >>> the floppy drive. I've tried using a different IDE cable as well, >>> just in case. >>> >>> I've checked DOS msd.exe for memory/irq conflicts, etc, but can see >>> nothing unusual. The card's BIOS is in an area that is unused (D000- >>> DBFF), and I've set the primary port on the card to each of the 4 >>> settings of Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quad, which basically >>> switches the IRQs and Ports among various choices, but no change. The >>> computer only has a video card, and memory card. The floppy >>> controller is on the MB. Oh, and also I've tried messing with the >>> computer's BIOS settings for the fixed disk. Normally I have it set >>> to none, but have tried a few different disk types, but it doesn't >>> seem to make a difference. >>> >>> Anyway, I'm baffled. Everything appears to be in order and this setup >>> seems like it should be working according to the manual for the >>> Promise card. These drives seem like they are from the right era for >>> this card. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Computer Tech Support" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<computer-tech-support%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Computer Tech Support" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<computer-tech-support%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Computer Tech Support" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. > >
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