problem with new system hanging help

[cal]

I'm helping a friend upgrade his computer. We have bought a p3 500, Abit BE6, pc100 64m ram, 9.1gb IBM 7200rpm, ATX case and power supply, We are using the excisting floppy, cd rom, video and sound card. when I boot up the system hangs at different stages during booting now it just blue screens. I've tried taking out the sound card no go, triple checked all connections. Even tried my power supply. has anyone got any Ideas. Please.

[Stan]

Hi !

Make sure that RAM, vid card, ... are fully inserted in the slots.
Try the following:
- plug the vid card in another PCI slot
- insert RAM in another rank

Hope that helps a bit

Stan

[cal]

Thanks for the reply
I changed the vid card to one I just had hanging around and that fixed it, but now I'm having problems configuring the new hdd in the bios

[Pantion]

Have you tried the HDD autoconfiguration option on the BIOS? Or check the HDD c/h/s and put them on the HDD settings instead of letting the BIOS do so.

Exactly what kind of problems?

[cal]

The Problem is the auto detect was not detecting anything

[Pantion]

Okay try this:

1. Check that the jumper on you HDD is set to Master.
2. Be sure that the IDE cable is pin1 with pin1 on the motherboard.
3. Try manual configuration by checking the h/c/s of your drive.
4. Check the power cable... maybe it isn't connected. As well as the IDE cable.

[chuckiechan]

If you have Mc afee anti-virus, try taking
it out. It conflicted with my dma 66 (ibm)/pc133 system, and caused hangs at the Windows screen

Good luck.....

[Pantion]

Just install everything except for the sound card and cd-rom. If the computer boots and the OS is running correctly then install the rest of the parts either one by one or all at once.

Be sure that the RAM is plugged all the way, as well as the CPU. And also check that the IDE cable is connected correctly, as well as the floppy cable.

[cal]

Have checked the jumpers and the cables all ok

There is no anti-virus as it's a new hdd
and I'm not putting in the old one so I'm starting from scratch

Have tried manual config I put in the c/h/s and a diffent size comes up, then when I save and exit I get a primary disk fail, is there a way to change the size manually and what mode should I choose. I've also tried auto detect but comes up with nothing

The harddrive is a IBM deskstar DJNA 370910 9.1GB 7200rpm if that helps

[welsh wizard]

Can't find any info on the numbers you gave, they look like either the serial number or FRU which IBM don,t list as alink.
If you go to http://www.pc.ibm.com/support
click options and fill in boxs you should be able to get to your drive, once you have drive isolated click on tech info, make sure that you are loading the right soecs for your drive as IBM make a few diff 9.1's
best of luck
WW

PS check your cable, make sure of pins, no bent ones or badly seating cables.
WW

[This message has been edited by welsh wizard (edited 12-07-1999).]

[cal]

Tried ibm page got that info and entered it
but no success
I have tried it in my system since and it booted fine so I don't know what to try next

[welsh wizard]

Have you got a spare old drive that you know is also good, but not so high spec, say some thing between 2.1 and 6 gig, see if it can handle it, if it works check you BIOS carefully to see if you missed some thing. if it don't see if you can get mobo checked out, would be the first thats faulty.
WW

[Mntsnow]

Sounds like it's RMA time for that board. But you might try flashing the bios since you state that it is capable of posting. It only takes a few minutes to flash the bios and if it doesnt help...RMA http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Mntsnow

[cal]

I have never flashed the bios how do you do that? and excuse my ignorance but what is RMA

[cal]

I just tried that with an old 1.1gb hard drive that I have tried on my system and it's fine but no good on the other. I've disconnected every thing only have floppy, vid card, and old hdd, still not working primary hdd fail and this time it started doing somthing strange things, the bios settings in the soft menu would not save tried 5-6 times I'm starting to suspect the mbo