Re: PSU

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:08:39 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:48:48 GMT, Colin Bearfield
><c.bearfield@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Last night I took a chance and powered up and got a sensible POST.
>>There was no response from the floppy drive but I thought it was a
>>poor power connection. The BIOS found everything correctly including
>>the floppy drive.
>>
>>Of course, the O/S found loads of new hardware and wanted drivers. It
>>wanted the W98SE install CD but couldn't see it. I put that down to
>>not having the right drivers installed. I did have the drivers on the
>>original floppy disk that came with the mobo, but guess what - they're
>>on a floppy disk.
>>
>>I made sure that the floppy drive was properly cabled up, even
>>changing the data cable for good measure. On power up the LED on the
>>floppy dr9ive did nothing but there was a flash of light when it had a
>>disk in it.
>>
>>So everything should be alright, but it still can't lift the drivers
>>from the CD, not even the mouse driver. It just behaves as if the CD
>>is absent.
>>
>>I've got to go and walk dogs now; it's what I do in retirement. I'll
>>have another go tonight.
>
>Easiest thing to do would be boot to the Win98SE floppy,
>choose "with CDROM support" (or similar meaning if wording
>differs), then copy the Win98 CD's "win98" folder to the
>hard drive. You need not have all the subfolders so the
>basic commands at the prompt would be,
>
>mkdir c:\win98
>copy <insert cdrom drive letter here>:\win98\*.* c:\win98
>
>
>It'll take a few minutes to finish copying.

This is what I did.

The drivers weren't perfect because I think that the mobo was a bit
later than the original drivers.

The idea of changing the mobo was to allow installation of XP. That's
where I am now. I installed in such a way that I keep all my
applications and settings in good order but most of them want a
re-installation.

I'm now trying to create a dial up network that will automatically
fire up IE6, They both work independently but not together.

Many thanks

Colin