Farva has been trying to install new 160gb hard drives into the backup machine. This apparently has become a difficult thing, and after a few hours comes to me.

Farva:
I think the motherboard is dead. The machine won’t boot and I don’t know why, I didn’t change anything, only the fan runs.
HPDEB:
The fan is running? Then the machine is on.
Farva:
No, it doesn’t boot, only the fan is on and the network LED is lit up, but the power switch doesn’t work.
HPDEB:
Fan=on, Led=on, Machine is turned on.
Farva:
I’ll check.

One hour later.

Farva:
It still doesn’t work.

I go check.

The power is definitely on. The machine is definitely turned on. The hard drive is DEFINITELY CONNECTED INCORRECTLY.

Pin 1 of the motherboard is connected to pin 40 of hard drive. Sigh. A quick switch and voila.. machine boots. Motherboard is no longer ‘dead’. All is well.

2 hours later.

Farva:
Every time I use DriveCopy to make a boot disk, it crashes.

So, I take a crack at this new problem.

  1. Try a different win2000 machine. Crashes.
  2. Read manual - Note: only works on win95/98
  3. Try on win98 - works fine.

At the end of the day…

Farva:
Ok it’s all done and I’ve got it working now.

No Farva, I think I got it working.