MegaRamsey
Technical User
Hello all, I've been browsing this site for days looking for a possible answer but I have not found one.
I'm working on a great running IBM Aptiva 2159 S76, Pentium 200mhz, it originally came with the "3rd piece", the media console. In it is (was) the power switch, floppy, and CD drives.
I've taken the media console apart with the intent to put the drives in the main box of the system. I've got the CD in and it's working great, I've updated the "MWave" pain in my backside card to a new PCI sound card and a new PCI 56k Motorola Modem, they are plugged into the riser card and all work great. (For an older system, this thing runs excellent). I've replaced the power switch because the original was on the media console (I need to find a place to mount it, but it's working great too), and bought a new monitor for it (it came to me without the original monitor that had the speakers built into the sides of it).
The only real problem I'm having is getting the A: drive to be the master in the main box. Every time I hook it up to the mother board it's detected as a B: drive. I have tried many times to change it on the F1 set up menu, but it comes back as an error and puts it back as the B: drive. I find no jumpers on the A: drive or the mother board for setting it as the master (unless I'm missing something here). The drive's light comes on and go off at startup, but neither A: nor B: drive shows up anywhere in windows. I put the drive back on the media console's board and plugged that board back into the main system, but it does not pick up on that at all, not as A: or B: and does not light up or anything. That seems strange to me because it did work before on that media card, but then my entire intent is to do away with the meia console all together so I'm not trying to get it to show up on that, it's torn apart and totally disconnected now.
I'm thinking I may need a new signal cable, but then, it does light up on start up (when it's in the main box) so maybe not? Also, I've gotten online and got the tech manual for the system but it does not tell you how to make an added floppy (connected directly to the mother board) the master floppy. I guess they intend for the floppy in the media console to be the master "til death does it part", and shows no options on how to make the mother board see another floppy as A: dirve (master). Maybe I should buy a new A: drive with jumpers on it and set it as master??
Not sure where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated ~
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MegaRamsey
I'm working on a great running IBM Aptiva 2159 S76, Pentium 200mhz, it originally came with the "3rd piece", the media console. In it is (was) the power switch, floppy, and CD drives.
I've taken the media console apart with the intent to put the drives in the main box of the system. I've got the CD in and it's working great, I've updated the "MWave" pain in my backside card to a new PCI sound card and a new PCI 56k Motorola Modem, they are plugged into the riser card and all work great. (For an older system, this thing runs excellent). I've replaced the power switch because the original was on the media console (I need to find a place to mount it, but it's working great too), and bought a new monitor for it (it came to me without the original monitor that had the speakers built into the sides of it).
The only real problem I'm having is getting the A: drive to be the master in the main box. Every time I hook it up to the mother board it's detected as a B: drive. I have tried many times to change it on the F1 set up menu, but it comes back as an error and puts it back as the B: drive. I find no jumpers on the A: drive or the mother board for setting it as the master (unless I'm missing something here). The drive's light comes on and go off at startup, but neither A: nor B: drive shows up anywhere in windows. I put the drive back on the media console's board and plugged that board back into the main system, but it does not pick up on that at all, not as A: or B: and does not light up or anything. That seems strange to me because it did work before on that media card, but then my entire intent is to do away with the meia console all together so I'm not trying to get it to show up on that, it's torn apart and totally disconnected now.
I'm thinking I may need a new signal cable, but then, it does light up on start up (when it's in the main box) so maybe not? Also, I've gotten online and got the tech manual for the system but it does not tell you how to make an added floppy (connected directly to the mother board) the master floppy. I guess they intend for the floppy in the media console to be the master "til death does it part", and shows no options on how to make the mother board see another floppy as A: dirve (master). Maybe I should buy a new A: drive with jumpers on it and set it as master??
Not sure where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated ~
MegaRamsey