I installed a 4xEIDE'99 adapter tonight, being very careful, much more careful than I am with pc's, as I can't just go down to any office/computer store and get more parts. suffice it to say, I took extra precautions with static and handled all parts very carefully.
so upon completion of the installation I fired it up. here is what I got...
HD led flashes
monitor flickers
power led flashes 4 times
HD led flashes
monitor flickers
power led flashes 4 times
and so on...
so I stirp it back down and reassemble the computer without the EIDE adapter. same thing.
I then installed another 2.5" HD that is totally blank and unpartitioned and the machine boots to the screen that asks for a boot disk.
so then I reboot the machine pressing both mouse buttons to get the early startup screen and and check the boot options. it lists DF0 and CC0. but no hard drive.
so...I pop in a game. Ferrari f1 and it loads up and plays. so I'm pretty sure the compuer is not completly fried.
did I smoke my first drive?
should I be able to see the new blank drive on the boot options screen?
does anyone else want to give this EIDE adapter a run to see if it smokes your drive? :-D
thanks for your help
AL
