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More info?)
This has gone from bad to worse.
I have tried all the drivers and now I get another "blue
screen" indicating that I need to reboot. It doesn't
recognize that there is a hard drive at all.
Very frustrating!
Robert
>-----Original Message-----
>There are two SCSI options on install screen (after
>pressing "S") as follows:
>
>AHA290X/291X/294/394X/4944/AK-78XX PCI...
>
>AHA294XU2/295U2/395XU2/AIC-789X PCI...
>
>Which one do I choose???
>
>Robert
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>It appears that the last company that worked on the
>>computer (one that I was very dissatisfied with) had
>>plugged the second to last connector into the hard
drive
>>and the last (terminated) connector back into the
>>motherboard (into the other SCSI port). I am surprised
>>that the computer was working like this.
>>
>>I will get back to work on this later today...thanks
for
>>your help.
>>
>>Robert
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>The 68 pin wide scsi bus would connect to any scsi
>>devices with the
>>>termination on the end of the bus. There are some
>unused
>>connectors in the
>>>length of the bus cable. Are there any other scsi
>>devices? There should be a
>>>cable to connect the IDE CD-Rom drive to the mb (it is
>>IDE? isn't it) then
>>>there would be the floppy drive cable.
>>>
>>>Use the NT driver here.
>>>http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?
>>ModelName=P2B-DS
>>>
>>>--
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
>>newsgroup.
>>>Microsoft Certified Professional
>>>Microsoft MVP [Windows]
>>>http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>>>
>>>
>>>"Robert" wrote:
>>>|I found a disk for AIC 7890 SCSI Driver Diskette 1/1
>>>| Content:
>>>| ASUS EZ-SCSI Driver Rev. 4.03
>>>| Windows NT4.0/95/98 Rev 3.01
>>>| MD001
>>>|
>>>| Is this what I need?
>>>|
>>>| ALSO...I can't remember which ribbon cables to
connect
>>>| back. Evidently there is only one drive (I was
>>mistaken).
>>>| There are two black SCSI connectors and one larger
>gray
>>>| one. The all grey ribbon cable plugs into the gray
>one.
>>>| That leaves a colored ribbon cable that is plugged
>into
>>>| the hard drive. The end has a terminator (relatively
>>>| large black "box") on it. I know I unplugged three
>>>| connectors but I don't think you connect both ends
of
>>the
>>>| same ribbon cable...including the terminator end. Is
>>this
>>>| clear as mud?
>>>|
>>>| Robert
>>>
>>>
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