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Hi all,
I replaced the cdrom drive in my dell dimension pentium 2 400Mhz 128Mb
RAM with a cd writer (Philips 5200 series PCRW5232K). I set the
jumpers to master (I also tried cable select)and I powered up the
machine. The HD spins up and the cd writer receives power but the boot
process does not even get as far as showing anything on the monitor.
There are no POST beeps at all. I then replaced the cdwriter with my
old cdrom drive expecting everything to be back to normal and I have
exactly the same problem. All ribbon cables and power connections are
firmly seated. The video card is working fine. I tried disconnecting
and reconnecting all my IDE cables. I tried all jumper positions on
each drive.
Please help I am now without a functioning PC.
Thanks
Andrew
Hi all,
I replaced the cdrom drive in my dell dimension pentium 2 400Mhz 128Mb
RAM with a cd writer (Philips 5200 series PCRW5232K). I set the
jumpers to master (I also tried cable select)and I powered up the
machine. The HD spins up and the cd writer receives power but the boot
process does not even get as far as showing anything on the monitor.
There are no POST beeps at all. I then replaced the cdwriter with my
old cdrom drive expecting everything to be back to normal and I have
exactly the same problem. All ribbon cables and power connections are
firmly seated. The video card is working fine. I tried disconnecting
and reconnecting all my IDE cables. I tried all jumper positions on
each drive.
Please help I am now without a functioning PC.
Thanks
Andrew