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More info?)
Ben, tried the win98 boot disk,,,does not detect cd rom.
I have an old SCSI host adapter and SCSI hard drive and CD rom..will give
that a try.
Yeah...dont want to spend any money on this thing...was just playing with it
since it was just sitting in the corner.
tony
<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:416881ee.41052415@news.charter.net...
> Tony,
>
> I'm fairly certain that the PB450 BIOS pre-dates the existence of
> IDE/ATAPI
> CD-ROM drives. Often with these old 486s and some VERY early Pentium
> systems,
> the drive will be detected and put into use by Windows when the BIOS setup
> indicates that the a drive is "Not installed" or the drive type is "None".
> Once
> you've done that, try booting the system with a Windows 98 or Windows ME
> install
> floppy. If the CD-ROM is detected by the OAKCDROM.SYS driver, you are
> home
> free. If not, I'm afraid there is nothing cost-effective you can do.
>
> Install a SCSI host adapter and a SCSI CD-ROM drive? THAT would work for
> sure.
> I could scare up a kit of a still factory-sealed Adaptec 1542C SCSI host
> adapter, SCSI cable and a SCSI CD-ROM drive (even a SCSI CD-RW!), if you
> are
> interested. Yes, I would charge for it. No, it would not be horrifically
> expensive. I am a realist about these things.
>
> MicroFirmware once sold BIOS updates for these older 486 and Pentium
> motherboards, but they are long gone and I don't recall if they ever did a
> BIOS
> for the PB450... Ben Myers
>
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:16:51 -0700, "tonys" <aarcuda@lvcm.com.spam> wrote:
>
>>Working on old PB450 motherboard, trying to install cd rom on secondary
>>ide
>>but it does not seem to see it.
>>
>>Wondering if there is an updated bios that could help me out. All the
>>PB450
>>bios links seems to be dead.
>>
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>tony
>>
>>
>
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