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Wim Zefat wrote:
>
>>By the way, I'm typing this from WindowsXP Media Edition, which installed
>>without a single hiccup once I'd removed the SCSI devices from the equation.
>>
>>Bill Anderson
>
>
> Succes at last!
>
> Hope you solve your prolems.
>
> Wim
Well, I have solved my problems, I suppose. I finally gave up on the
two SCSI CD drives and ditched them. (Well, they're safely resting in a
cabinet until I need them someday.) I went out to a local computer
store and bought an IDE Plextor DVD-RW DVD+RW to go with my Pioneer
DVD-RW. $129. And I bought an 80 Gbyte WD S-ATA HDD to replace my 40
Gbyte Maxtor EIDE HDD. $79. So now I have an S-ATA drive from which to
boot, two large WD HDDs on the primary IDE channel, and two DVD-RWs on
the secondary IDE channel.
But even that wasn't easy because the Asus bios insisted on regarding my
SCSI flatbed scanner and my SCSI slide scanner as hard drives. And when
I first plugged the S-ATA drive in, the ASUS bios did not see it at all,
no matter how I fiddled with the bios. The only hard drives the BIOS
would report were the two EIDE drives and the two SCSI scanners. (Ever
tried to boot from a scanner?) It wasn't until I removed the two EIDE
drives and the two SCSI scanners from the equation that the ASUS BIOS
would see the S-ATA drive. It now saw my new drive and the two IDE
optical drives, so I just installed WinXP with things set up like that.
Then, when WinXP was running fine (it installed without a hitch), I
plugged the two EIDE hard drives back into the primary IDE channel.
When they showed up just fine in the BIOS (after a little reshuffling),
I plugged the scanners back into the SCSI adapter, and now they're
running fine.
Very weird. But it's working like a charm now. Thanks to you and to
Paul and to the others for your help. Now I know why I play with my
computer as a hobby but I don't try to make a living at it.
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
Wim Zefat wrote:
>
>>By the way, I'm typing this from WindowsXP Media Edition, which installed
>>without a single hiccup once I'd removed the SCSI devices from the equation.
>>
>>Bill Anderson
>
>
> Succes at last!
>
> Hope you solve your prolems.
>
> Wim
Well, I have solved my problems, I suppose. I finally gave up on the
two SCSI CD drives and ditched them. (Well, they're safely resting in a
cabinet until I need them someday.) I went out to a local computer
store and bought an IDE Plextor DVD-RW DVD+RW to go with my Pioneer
DVD-RW. $129. And I bought an 80 Gbyte WD S-ATA HDD to replace my 40
Gbyte Maxtor EIDE HDD. $79. So now I have an S-ATA drive from which to
boot, two large WD HDDs on the primary IDE channel, and two DVD-RWs on
the secondary IDE channel.
But even that wasn't easy because the Asus bios insisted on regarding my
SCSI flatbed scanner and my SCSI slide scanner as hard drives. And when
I first plugged the S-ATA drive in, the ASUS bios did not see it at all,
no matter how I fiddled with the bios. The only hard drives the BIOS
would report were the two EIDE drives and the two SCSI scanners. (Ever
tried to boot from a scanner?) It wasn't until I removed the two EIDE
drives and the two SCSI scanners from the equation that the ASUS BIOS
would see the S-ATA drive. It now saw my new drive and the two IDE
optical drives, so I just installed WinXP with things set up like that.
Then, when WinXP was running fine (it installed without a hitch), I
plugged the two EIDE hard drives back into the primary IDE channel.
When they showed up just fine in the BIOS (after a little reshuffling),
I plugged the scanners back into the SCSI adapter, and now they're
running fine.
Very weird. But it's working like a charm now. Thanks to you and to
Paul and to the others for your help. Now I know why I play with my
computer as a hobby but I don't try to make a living at it.
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
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