First post, by Hamby
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Trying to install a CF2IDE into my K6-2 300 system with 246mb ram, Voodoo3 2000 video. I've pulled all the other cards.
I connected a StarTech CF2IDE adapter with a Sandisk Extreme UDMA 32GB CF card in it. I installed, from CD, Win98... but it kept blue screening near the end as it was installing drivers.
I couldn't get the system to recognize the CDROM drive after awhile, even though I tried 2 drives (separately) and both were receiving power and cabled correctly. The CDROM was on the same cable as slave as the CF2IDE, which was the master.
Then the machine wouldn't go past the bios logo "SpeedEasy". If I hit del, it would go back into the bios menu. I noticed it kept wanting to put "none" for the rive type where the CDROM was (slave on the primary controller) in the autoconfig. It always recognized the CF card and its size.
At one point I set the system to boot from A (odd system; the only boot from A option was "A, C, SCSI"... no A,CDROM,C or A,C,CDROM) and pulled the CF card from the CF2IDE. Still stuck at the bios logo.
Tried connecting the CDROM as master to the secondary IDE controller. Same thing.
Finally, connected the old 6GB HD back up as primary master, no CDROM, no CF2IDE and it booted from the HD.
I put the CF card in my CF reader connected to my Linux desktop, and it recognized it fine, all the installed windows files were there; I ran gparted and it recognized it, the card had the boot flag set; it appears to be just fine.
I even tried different jumper settings on the CF2IDE; set it from 5v to 3.3v, nothing changed. set it from external power to cable power. nothing changed. I didn't set it for slave, however. Aside from making my system hang, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the CF2IDE.
I'm going to try different CF cards in it, but I got this one because the 8gb card I had tried before had the removable flag set. But at least the machine booted from floppy, then.
I bought 3 of the CF2IDEs, because I have 3 systems I eventually want to put them in (this one, a 486 and a 286 I hope to build). I already put a Startech CF2IDE in my old Toshiba T5200 laptop, and it worked without a hitch with a 4 GB drive.
So, did my CF2IDE adapter die as it appears to have? But if so, how come the bios recognizes it?
I hesitate to try one of the other adapters in case something in this machine is killing it. Can anyone give me any insight as to what may have happened? Did I somehow kill the adapter?