On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 09:26, Mark A. Bell wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can someone recomend a Linux-friendly repair shop? > Preferably near Glebe or public transport.
Mark, Hardware tips for newbies. The cables from the mother board or ide controller (not that old is it!). The cable have a red line sometimes this is very faint but it is always there. Check that the marked edge is plugged next to pin 1. This is always marked on the board but really hard to see sometimes. The other end the red line goes against the power connector on drives and CD drives. Check that you have done this. You now have three drives and two cables. One of the drives will have to be a slave drive on one of the cables. Check the CD (generally easier to work on!) there will be a jumpoer on the back with three pairs of pins MA (master) SL (slave) CS (cable select, no-one does this!). Switch it to slave and share that cable with the hard drive. Go into the bios setup and detect the hard drives again. If you can boot off CD the bios will detect the CD as well. If it does not then you have done something wrong. Hope this helps, KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
