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I'm trying to consolidate space in my basement and was going to do a
minor rebuild on my "faithful" old Soyo Dragon+ by installing a new
120 GIg slave drive and reformatting the root 45 Gig unit... then I'd
do a fresh install of W2K. Its been running just fine with two (2) 45
gig drives, two CD drives, and one zip100 IDE.
I figured I'd do this nice, got out my small vacumn and put the
mini-pc nozzles on and cleaned out all the lint and dog hair so the
inside of the case/mobo looked like new. Connected up the new HDD as
a 2nd slave, formatted it and started to transfer files. Decided to
pull Slave #1 out, and reboot with the root drive and the 120 Gig
slave #3. She won't boot guys. Putting it all back together didn't
get a boot/post either.
I removed all PCI cards, cables, re-set the CMOS to default using the
jumper, re-seated both the video AGP and the memory, and she still
won't post. All I get is a startup, everything is spinning, then a
long beep, and it shuts down by itself within 5 seconds or so. Soyo's
FAQs say that I should re-seat the memory and video and thats why I
did that. All the fans are connected and spin up when I power on.
But no post. I'm at my wits end. Is there any way to detect a short?
Anyone here have a "EUREKA" or "YOU DUMMY... ALL YOU HAVE TO DO
IS..."? I'll thank you in advance for the great answers I'm sure to
get! Incidentally, I'm using the Tyan 2460 twin MP unit that I
intended to dismantle and part out! So I didn't burn all my
bridges... but I can't believe that the Soyo decided today was a nice
day to die.
Mike
I'm trying to consolidate space in my basement and was going to do a
minor rebuild on my "faithful" old Soyo Dragon+ by installing a new
120 GIg slave drive and reformatting the root 45 Gig unit... then I'd
do a fresh install of W2K. Its been running just fine with two (2) 45
gig drives, two CD drives, and one zip100 IDE.
I figured I'd do this nice, got out my small vacumn and put the
mini-pc nozzles on and cleaned out all the lint and dog hair so the
inside of the case/mobo looked like new. Connected up the new HDD as
a 2nd slave, formatted it and started to transfer files. Decided to
pull Slave #1 out, and reboot with the root drive and the 120 Gig
slave #3. She won't boot guys. Putting it all back together didn't
get a boot/post either.
I removed all PCI cards, cables, re-set the CMOS to default using the
jumper, re-seated both the video AGP and the memory, and she still
won't post. All I get is a startup, everything is spinning, then a
long beep, and it shuts down by itself within 5 seconds or so. Soyo's
FAQs say that I should re-seat the memory and video and thats why I
did that. All the fans are connected and spin up when I power on.
But no post. I'm at my wits end. Is there any way to detect a short?
Anyone here have a "EUREKA" or "YOU DUMMY... ALL YOU HAVE TO DO
IS..."? I'll thank you in advance for the great answers I'm sure to
get! Incidentally, I'm using the Tyan 2460 twin MP unit that I
intended to dismantle and part out! So I didn't burn all my
bridges... but I can't believe that the Soyo decided today was a nice
day to die.
Mike