could you start a new post with your question On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:12 PM, fareed khan <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. 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