I wouldn't be surprised if it crashed with the cabling being messed up. Frans is absolutely right. Unless you connect the cable properly, don't be surprised by obscure crashes or hangs.
Adrian > On Apr 10, 2017, at 7:25 PM, transmail <transm...@freemail.hu> wrote: > > But it works if it's not the blue is connected to the motherboard! "boot > cdrom" works and it's not the blue which is connected to the motherboard. Or > even if the machine begins to boot, the later crash is because of this? What > if i connect the devices with a 40 pin cable? > > Frans van Berckel <fberc...@xs4all.nl> írta: >>> On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 19:09 +0200, transmail wrote: >>> And which cable is correct for this machine? Because now "boot cdrom" >>> works with 80 pin too. >>> >>> It's impossible to plug the blue connector to the motherboard. The >>> DVD's and the HDD's connector is too far from each other then. I need >>> to put the middle (gray) one to the motherboard. When i got the >>> machine it was that way. >> >> Okay clear, stop searching any further. Because this the problem. The >> blue cable connector got to be connected to the motherboard, indeed. >> >>> It did not make any change if i mapped the DVD as slave or CS. What >>> mattered that i had to put the DVD on the same bus as the HDD. If the >>> DVD is alone then it only appears if it's the master. >>> >>> I'll get a serial cable. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Frans van Berckel >> >>
