Micom 2000
Veteran Member
This of course doesn't belong on a vintage forum, but since this section elicits off-topic posts, I thought I'd attempt to mine the considerable computer minds here.
My most modern computer quit on me. It has a Gigabyte GA-700N motherboard with an Intel 1.8 CPU. It's a dual-core CPU. At first I thought it was a drive failure but fortunately my 80g hdd(my biggest) was OK (It has a lot of un-backed-up stuff on it). I had installed W2k on it previously after the Mother-board completely choked on numerous attempts at a W98 install but W2k worked fine for a while. I eventually got it functioning with a w98 FDD boot disk. It does recognize the Atapi CD drive but won't recognise any of the known-good IDE HDs I tested. I tried on both IDE sockets one which is colored green.. I can only imagine the IDE controllers aren't loading. A totally new experience for me. And of course the W2k cd copy has now decided to display faults which it didn't display when I installed it on the Gigibyte and wouldn't install on my IBM 300PL so I could possibly use that HD to suss out the problems , since it couldn't read some obviously necessary install files. Perhaps I could also use a cd or USB boot if it installs the USB drivers from the BIOS and replace the missing files. Aarrrgghh ! !
So at the moment I'm reduced to using this 233mhz IBM PS350 i'm using to post this. One of the problems being with major sites either choking on it's 64mb memory as they download all their garbage, causing it to freeze, or informing me they require a newer browser on which this W98 computer isn't capable of installing, or else waiting interminably for the page to load. The "trailing edge" penalties have been indelibly imposed on me by the IT giants.
So has anyone here ran across this IDE controller problem and found a way of repairing it ? Assuming that I can either get a new copy of a W2k or repair the one I have, or somehow re-install the IDE controllers using DOS ?
Lawrence
My most modern computer quit on me. It has a Gigabyte GA-700N motherboard with an Intel 1.8 CPU. It's a dual-core CPU. At first I thought it was a drive failure but fortunately my 80g hdd(my biggest) was OK (It has a lot of un-backed-up stuff on it). I had installed W2k on it previously after the Mother-board completely choked on numerous attempts at a W98 install but W2k worked fine for a while. I eventually got it functioning with a w98 FDD boot disk. It does recognize the Atapi CD drive but won't recognise any of the known-good IDE HDs I tested. I tried on both IDE sockets one which is colored green.. I can only imagine the IDE controllers aren't loading. A totally new experience for me. And of course the W2k cd copy has now decided to display faults which it didn't display when I installed it on the Gigibyte and wouldn't install on my IBM 300PL so I could possibly use that HD to suss out the problems , since it couldn't read some obviously necessary install files. Perhaps I could also use a cd or USB boot if it installs the USB drivers from the BIOS and replace the missing files. Aarrrgghh ! !
So at the moment I'm reduced to using this 233mhz IBM PS350 i'm using to post this. One of the problems being with major sites either choking on it's 64mb memory as they download all their garbage, causing it to freeze, or informing me they require a newer browser on which this W98 computer isn't capable of installing, or else waiting interminably for the page to load. The "trailing edge" penalties have been indelibly imposed on me by the IT giants.
So has anyone here ran across this IDE controller problem and found a way of repairing it ? Assuming that I can either get a new copy of a W2k or repair the one I have, or somehow re-install the IDE controllers using DOS ?
Lawrence
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