Recent content by pugaholic2003

Actually, my 3 1/4 floppy drive is a Smart Drive and needs an IDE connection. I would love to know, step by step, which device to put on IDE 1 as master, then slave, then what on IDE 2. Is there a difference if I put the jumpers on the drive to master or slave rather than cable select? You...

I keep hoping I hit the right combination. Right now, I have the new HDD with XP as master and CD-Rom as slave on IDE1, then I have 3 1/2 floppy as master and old HDD with all my valuable date on it on IDE2. System still hangs at mobo logo and cdrom doesn't flash or open.

Well, I now have my new HDD that has a clean install of XP on it as master and old HDD with all my data on it as slave on one cable (IDE1) and my CD-ROM and 3 1/4 Floppy on IDE2 as master and slave respectively. Now when I turn the computer on, the mobo logo stays on -- and another funny thing...

Thanks for all the helpful responses! I installed a new HDD alone and put Windows XP on it and it worked fine -- NOW I need to recover my data from the old HDD. I installed the old HDD after installing Win XP thinking that I could now access the old HDD, but no such luck. Now, instead of...

Hi all: I'm new to building a computer, but I've put everything I need in it - BUT IT WON'T PULL UP WINDOWS XP! I have a : SOYO SY-KT400 Dragon Lite motherboard Antec Performance II Tower with a 350v. power supply. Bios on the Motherboard is V6.00PG Corsair DDR 512 MB of RAM 64 X 64 Cas. 2.5...