I have an old P2 256 that the kids had been using. We replaced it last year and it had been sitting in th garage gathering dust.
Recently my PC died and I thought I would put this one into service as all I do is browse the internet and use MS Office.
I fired it up and noticed that it only had a 12 meg HD so I decided to replace it. I slipped in the 120 meg HD from my old PC and it failed to boot.
I checked jumpers and cables and everythign looked good. I reattached the flat cable to the 12 gig HD and the unit fired right up.
I repeated this process with 2 other HDs with the same results. I then took my 3 other HDs and reformatted them, and placed each one at a time in the case with a Win XP disk in the ROM drive. In each instance the message would say non-system disk in dirve, replace it.
When i looked at BIOS it showed the DVD rom drive as a primary slave and the HD as the secondary master although there was not information about it.
I would then recoonect the cable to the old HD and it would take off.
After 2 hours of this, I pulled all the cards out and toss the case in the trash.
I am stumped. But I feel a lot better.
Recently my PC died and I thought I would put this one into service as all I do is browse the internet and use MS Office.
I fired it up and noticed that it only had a 12 meg HD so I decided to replace it. I slipped in the 120 meg HD from my old PC and it failed to boot.
I checked jumpers and cables and everythign looked good. I reattached the flat cable to the 12 gig HD and the unit fired right up.
I repeated this process with 2 other HDs with the same results. I then took my 3 other HDs and reformatted them, and placed each one at a time in the case with a Win XP disk in the ROM drive. In each instance the message would say non-system disk in dirve, replace it.
When i looked at BIOS it showed the DVD rom drive as a primary slave and the HD as the secondary master although there was not information about it.
I would then recoonect the cable to the old HD and it would take off.
After 2 hours of this, I pulled all the cards out and toss the case in the trash.
I am stumped. But I feel a lot better.