SN85G4V2 runs great -- now that it boots up!!

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.shuttle (More info?)

I finally had some time last weekend to put my SN85G4V2 together. Youu
may recall from a previous thread I was planning to use a WD120gb
drive, which was a second drive in my old computer, as the HD for my
shuttle.

I started about 1pm last Saturday, took out the HD and wireless pci
card from my old PC, and changed the jumper on the HD from slave to
master. Then I assembled the shuttle. Within 90 minutes, I was ready
to plug it in and start loading windows. Of course, on the first
boot, it goes to the CD since the OS was not installed. So I go
through the installation of WIndows, everythiing seems to load fine.
Then it comes time to reboot in the windows load process and it goes
back to the install cd. I could get the pc to recognize the HD once
it booted from CD, could browse the disk and launch apps, I just
couldn't boot from it. I double check connections, look at the bios to
make sure the HD is first in the boot sequence, then reload windows
again -- no difference.

I was hoping that I would be able to load Windows on this drive
without reformatting it, that way I wouln't have to reload the gigs
and gigs of stuff I'd copied off it for backup. But after a couple of
hours of trying, I relented and started from scratch, repartitioning
and formating the drive. The I went through the Windows loading
process again and, of course, same thing, wouldn't boot from the HD.

After several hours, I switched to family activities, figuring I would
start again in the morning. Well, Sunday morning, something told me
to check the jumper on the HD. I pulled the drive, moved the jumper
from master to "cable select" and guess what, THAT FIXED IT!!! So the
moral of this is the shuttle wants to see the HD jumper in the cable
select position.

PS, loaded WinXP SP2, IT DID NOT WORK -- it kept doing the reboot
thing. Prior to loading I searched for the culprit file MS says
causes this and did not find it, so something else is doing it. I
reverted back to pre-SP2 install.

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.shuttle (More info?)

In article <56ca21f6.0409250735.10775fd2@posting.google.com>, Dave
says...

> After several hours, I switched to family activities, figuring I would
> start again in the morning. Well, Sunday morning, something told me
> to check the jumper on the HD. I pulled the drive, moved the jumper
> from master to "cable select" and guess what, THAT FIXED IT!!! So the
> moral of this is the shuttle wants to see the HD jumper in the cable
> select position.
>
Actually, slightly wrong. The HDD cable is a Cable Select cable. The
black connector is for the master drive and the grey for the slave
drive. If you have drives set to CS it all works great. The problem
comes though, if you have the drive jumpered as master but hooked up to
the grey "slave" connector and vice versa.


--
Conor

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