Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's

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Name: Danny1234
Date: April 16, 2007 at 19:10:54 Pacific
Subject: Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's
OS: Windows 98 Pref
CPU/Ram: 128MB
Model/Manufacturer: Mermaid

Comment:

Hi
I am trying to build a new pc with the best components from a few old machines. Today it loaded up with the Q Award screen BIOS but demands a floppy disk. i have a boot disk but when i perform fdisk, it tells me repeatedly NO FIXED DISKS PRESENT and i have tried a few different hard drives and keep getting the same message. i pressed F8 AND F10 but to no avail. Will pressing the DEL key work to get into the BIOS? or do have i have to purchase a new Win98 Disk and new Hard Drive from Ebay to get the machine to work? Its a dilemma because i am unsure whether I need both a new Win98 Disk and Hard Drive or whether i just need to get 1 of these items considering I have a few hard drives I could try. I would be grateful if you could give some good advice on how to tackle this.
Many thanks
Danny1234.

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Response Number 1

Name: OtheHill
Date: April 16, 2007 at 19:19:30 Pacific
Subject: Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's

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You need to verify that the HDrive is recognised in the BIOS. Some older BIOSes has an option to force the controller to recognise the drive. If you don't see the harddrive identified during the POST screens a startup then you won't be abale to proceed further. Be sure that the IDE controllers are enabled and the drive if jumpered properly. CS won't work on older machines. Use Master/ slave.

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Response Number 2

Name: Lupin3rd
Date: April 17, 2007 at 01:22:28 Pacific
Subject: Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's

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Pressing Del might work it depends on the motherboard manufacturer and BIOS type.
Try F1 through to F12, del and the end key. You can pause the boot process by pressing the Pause-Break key. If you need to pause the boot up straight away to look on the screen and see what button it tells you to press is then do that. To continue the boot process just press Enter/Return. HTH for now.
Quatermass O.B.E

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Response Number 3

Name: jam
Date: April 17, 2007 at 08:47:36 Pacific
Subject: Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's

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It certainly would help if you listed the specs for the "3 Old PC's" & which parts (if any) you've swapped around to create the "1 New PC"

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Response Number 4

Name: Name
Date: April 17, 2007 at 15:32:10 Pacific
Subject: Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's

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There are several things a computer "needs" to recognize, and boot, from a hard drive.
First, there is no reason to assume that the hard drive, the IDE cable, or the computer controller port are actually working
The hard drive must be properly jumpered, generally, master
The hard drive must be connected to the proper connector on the cable, IE the far end, with the cable connector installed correctly, IE not reversed,
generally the main hard drive must be on "controller 0" although this is not always the case.
Next,the motherboard bios must properly recognize (or be commanded to recognized) the hard drive, as to platters and so on, and in some bios programs, "saved" in the BIOS memory.
I have been IN YOUR EXACT SITUATION, and somewhere, stacked around here, are a couple of motherboards and a couple of hard drives that just plain don't like each other. Those motherboards work fine with most other hard drives, just not "those" one or two.
The hard drives in question work fine with most other motherboards, just not "those" one or two.

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Response Number 5

Name: Derek
Date: April 19, 2007 at 15:44:22 Pacific
Subject: Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's

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Anyone there?
DerekW

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Transferrin old HD to new PC My new PC wont recognize my old hard drive, I cannot assigned the old drive a letter. Networking 3 Pc's Together , how ?? connecting multible pc's to the internet Can't see folders on other PC's	networking two PC's with Windows 98 joining 2 PC's to use broadband?! SEVERE problems clean installing Windows 98SE to new PC How 2 transfer MS Office to new PC 1 USB printer 2 PC's

Response Number 6

Name: jboy
Date: April 22, 2007 at 16:59:56 Pacific
Subject: Making 1 New PC from 3 Old PC's

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That's debatable - the lights might be on, but...
Poster doesn't seem to 'get' the concept of replying, although they've quite a grasp of starting new threads
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

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