Thermalwrong wrote:CarlHopkinsUK wrote:Discovered the ide controller is kaput on the IBM Aptiva I picked up, given the CD drive was blown too I expect something has happened here...
Well at least I have a nice mATX case for a future project. 😐
Currently spinning up a custom WinXP installer to get XP on my HP 4320s Probook daily driver alongside Linux. Always find it useful to have a working machine with XP on it.
I thought the same with a similar system, a SIS-chipset based Socket 7 computer. The IDE controller just wouldn't pick anything up - it turned out one of the IDE cables, the one to the CD drive specifically, was in backwards and that stopped both IDE channels from working, hopefully yours might be a similar issue? 😁
Alas i wish it was...
No unfortunately it picks drives up fine, and posts as normal. However in about 8 out of 10 boot attempts it will just hang post boot (no matter what drive or device i use).
When it does boot, it will usually hang once you start doing any amount of I/O. Best i have managed is about 50% of the way through a MS-DOS 6.22 install before it just hung.
Odd thing is, system is still responsive (i.e doesnt hang/lockup), its just as if the IDE controller gives up on sending any I/O...
Tried multiple drives, HDDS, CF's, different RAM, different CPU, different PSU changed all the cables, reseated the BIOS, reflashed the BIOS... only thing i haven't changed is the board itself. Symptons are the same regardless.
I even under clocked the K6-2 to 200mhz and dropped the bus the 66mhz and even that made no difference!