Packard Bell 75 HRDD into new P3 450

[Papazito]

A friend of mine just recently bought a barebones P3 450. He took out his old Packard Bell hard drive and placed it into the new system along with his old cd-rom and floppy. The barebones system came with the prosessor, motherboard (nothing special), case, and on-board sound. He also bought the needed ram and video card. The system turns on but will not boot up completely. It recognizes the floppy drive but thats about it. Do I need to boot with a boot disk? If so, why? Is there some kind of BIOS conflict? What do we do to gt it to boot and run Windows 95 along with the rest of the old programs on the original hard drive? The original processor was a Pentium 75 with an old cheap trash mother board.

[Death To Mel]

Go into the bios and set the boot sequence C,A. If this doesn't work then it is likly you fried something when you were putting it together. Was the power supply switch in the off position when you pluged in the power cord, when you installed the cards, hard drive, etc...

[Susan]

Don't forget to have the BIOS detect that HD /forum/smile.gif

[ocynic]

Good advice Susan. Have bios auto-detect the C: drive. Set boot seq> to C,A and make sure no other bootable drives are hooked up like an old 5.25 floppy. PakBel bios can be kinda wierd.