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operating system not found
Name: pimpinaman Date: February 17, 2005 at 19:53:22 Pacific OS: win 95 CPU/Ram: celeron 500 Mhz
Comment:
Greetings all,
Trying to put a "frankenstein" box together from all my old parts, and I keep getting a "operating system not found error".
The set-up is:
HP 6553 mew-vm motherboard 192 MB sdram pc100 floppy mitsumi 24x CD-rom 607 MB compaq HD or Dell XPi CD 2 GB HD
I've tried with a laptop hd with an adpator to make it work with the ide cable. The set-up has run with a 607 MB old HD, but now it won't run with that either. Any ideas that I might be overlooking? I've tried disconnecting the CD drive, and going with just the HD and floppy. I've tried just the CD drive with no HD and floppy ( a la knoppix). What am I missing here?
Name: ddp59 Date: February 17, 2005 at 20:13:51 Pacific
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does motherboard see the hd, is there an operating system on the hd, can you boot off floppy, what is boot sequence??
david
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Response Number 2
Name: pimpinaman Date: February 17, 2005 at 20:35:52 Pacific
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The boot sequence is floppy, CD, then HD.
It doesnt appear to see the CD or HD, I have it set on auto. I've gotten it to boot off the 607 MB HD before but now it won't co-operate...
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Response Number 3
Name: pimpinaman Date: February 18, 2005 at 01:37:16 Pacific
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Windows 95 is on the HD. Thats what I have told the bios is there (it has an option for other, windows 95, windows 98/2000).
It is not letting me boot from the floppy. No C: or a: just "no operating system found"
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Response Number 4
Name: johnoh Date: February 18, 2005 at 05:05:12 Pacific
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reformat the hd
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Response Number 5
Name: pimpinaman Date: February 18, 2005 at 09:05:31 Pacific
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small problem with reformat the HD. NO PROMPT! I ended up going a google search and found another guy with a real similar problem. Found out that you can't mix jumpers and cable select the hard way. The cd-rom had a jumper on it set to cable select, and the HD had none on it. I ended up popping the jumper off the cd and it worked :) I just thought I'd post this tidbit in case anyone ran into a similar problem :)
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