PC Advice - Putting it Together

[amiga_noob]

Hi

The IDE cable has a one red cable fit this onto the hard drive towards to power connecter to the harddrive.

The red cable indecates pin 1.

On the motherboard connector the socket has a notch in the middle on one of the sides like below:

|--------------|
|------   -----|
1

Put the red end when pin one is.

same with the floppy cable.
connect the floppy to the end of the cable after the twist.

then setup the hard drive in the BIOS.

Hope this helps.

P.s A goog indication if the floppy is connected wrong. The floppy light will stay lit.

[amiga_noob]

Hi

The CMOS is a chip which keeps the settings for the BIOS.

Pressing f1 when requested will take you stright to the relevent section section in the BIOS.

Try different combinations with the floppy and cable (i.e. change the cable round e.t.c).

If there is nothing on the hard drive then you will need to get the floppy working or try changing the BOOTUP settings in the BIOS to boot from CD, then try booting with a bootable CD.

Good luck
The settings in the BIOS for the HDD, are they the right settings for that drive?
If not they will need to be changed. If the motherboard is a new board then there will be a setting in the BIOS to auto detect the settings.

You'll need to navigate around the BIOS via K/b, so if the k/b aint working properly then you'll need to try another one.

[amiga_noob]

Hi

The 2 ps/2 (k/b) sockets: one for the keybord and the other is for the mouse.

What type of connector is on the k/b?
Are you using a 5pin din to ps/2 k/b converter?

I have no idea about the amiga k/b, cuz im new to amigas.
But it could be worth a try.

Yes you've lost the settings in the bios.

[amiga_noob]

Hi

Glad you got your computer up and running. You just need to do a bit of tweaking here and there.

Like Holley said you can uninstall most of the programs you don't need.

Or if it's a genuin PB system, there should be a program on there that uninstalls the software you dont need.

If it's a packard bell computer you may be able to reinstall windows and drivers without the aditional s/w.

Providied you have the master disks, or your hard drive has a hidden partition with the image still intact and a PB boot disk.

What PB system is it?