bobcat
09-21-1999, 08:08 AM
Tyan Titan Turbo 2
2 gig HD - IDE 1
Sony 4x CDRom - IDE 2
X10 controller off of the Serial port.
History:
It was up 24 hrs a day. Used as a print server and home automation manager.
When I build a machine, I use VIBRA's CDROM IDE controller. You need to specify an addr and IRQ. I have had this build disk for several years now and use it on all the machines.
Weird things happen....
About 3 weeks ago, I went to log on and it did not come out of sleep mode. Did a hard reset.
About 2 weeks ago, It lost networking capabilities. After alot of brew haha, I deciced to rebuild the OS. This is when all the fun started.
The CDROM would take about a minute to respond back (just to get the dir). I swapped it out and put in 2 other CDROMs and had the same problem.
I have moved the CDROM from IDE 2 to IDE 1 and back. Same problem. During this process, I kept using the build disk to do its thing. In the middle of this, the ADDR/IRQ that I have been using since the beginning of time with all my machines stopped working.
After much hasle I found an ADDR/IRQ that would work. Put w98 in. Fire off setup. The install then asks for w95. Once I put that disk in, it cannot find any disk at all.
Note: This has also happened with the w98 were it didn't find it.
Now, I can get to the HD and format it and install software via floppy.
Any ideas?
Sorry for the book.
2 gig HD - IDE 1
Sony 4x CDRom - IDE 2
X10 controller off of the Serial port.
History:
It was up 24 hrs a day. Used as a print server and home automation manager.
When I build a machine, I use VIBRA's CDROM IDE controller. You need to specify an addr and IRQ. I have had this build disk for several years now and use it on all the machines.
Weird things happen....
About 3 weeks ago, I went to log on and it did not come out of sleep mode. Did a hard reset.
About 2 weeks ago, It lost networking capabilities. After alot of brew haha, I deciced to rebuild the OS. This is when all the fun started.
The CDROM would take about a minute to respond back (just to get the dir). I swapped it out and put in 2 other CDROMs and had the same problem.
I have moved the CDROM from IDE 2 to IDE 1 and back. Same problem. During this process, I kept using the build disk to do its thing. In the middle of this, the ADDR/IRQ that I have been using since the beginning of time with all my machines stopped working.
After much hasle I found an ADDR/IRQ that would work. Put w98 in. Fire off setup. The install then asks for w95. Once I put that disk in, it cannot find any disk at all.
Note: This has also happened with the w98 were it didn't find it.
Now, I can get to the HD and format it and install software via floppy.
Any ideas?
Sorry for the book.