My turn to ask for help (-;
My daughter bought a Compaq, seems to have a 60MHz 486DX in it,
was obviously used on a network (ethernet card still in, lots
of netware), running DOS6.20 and WIN3.1. She has an external
modem, and has started to use JUNO. So far, so good, but
she has decided to install WIN95 (sigh..... can't teach kids
anything these days). To do that, she needed a CDROM, so
she seems to have picked up a 24X generic from COMPUSA, along
with the cable to extend it.
She tried to install it herself, and the computer quit, so she
brought it over. I took the CDROM back off, cleaned up her
autoexec.bat and config.sys some (network card calls and all that
which she no longer needs, and a call to win), and then tried
again to install it. Started with the CDROM set as slave,
and cable in the right direction (red line to pin 1), ran the install
disk and restarted. The machine stalls for awhile in bootup, then
announces that it cannot find the CDROM. If I try to switch the
shorting pin to "master", the machine won't boot at all. There
appears to be no pins on the hard drive (a 525Meg type 46 I believe)
to reset it to slave, and I couldn't see any shorting pins to
set on the motherboard. Of course, it was late and my eyes are
getting old.....
Tried several simpler settings in the config.sys, made sure that
MSCDEX was in the path and existed, tried running it separately
from autoexec.bat - no luck. It was getting late, and I have to
up it early for work, so I gave up for the night. Anyone
have any experience with Compaq 486's? Might the trouble be that
the 24X is too fast? I guess I could try my 2X from my
Pentium 166..........
Thanks, jp
J.P. Letellier
Code 5320, Bld 47, Room 118
Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Avenue, S.W.
Washington D. C. 20375-5336
Phone: (202)767-2937 ; DSN: 297-2937
FAX: (202)404-7999 ; (dsn fax) 754-7999
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www: http://radar-www.nrl.navy.mil/5320/
To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message.
Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
