Posted by Professor Chaos That;s cause you need to set up an array. SCSI is NOT like EIDE. You also need to usually install 3rd party drivers at the begining of the installation for the SCSI/RAID header so Windows installation knows where to look for the drives. Good luck using 98 (it usually dosnt let you do this, you'll have to use an NT based system, nor do I think 98 supports dual CPU systems).

Where did you get the idea it's a SCSI system? The only drive shown is an ATA drive and he makes no mention of it.

You certainly can run SCSI drives outside an array though - not sure why you think it's required - you don't need a RAID configured to run SCSI drives.

Typically you will need a driver for the SCSI controller to load during OS setup unless it's fairly generic then XP should support it by default.

And, you are right - 98 won't support dual CPU's - Trevor, I'd recommend you find a copy of XP, 2000 or some flavor of linux to run on that box. You'll probably have a lot less driver issues with XP because the age of that box most everything should be supported native in the OS.

Is the hard drive error your getting say that no drive was found or that there is no partition on the drive for it to copy files?

If it's just a partition problem I'd recommend you get a boot disk from the bootdisk.com website - get in there and wipe the disk clean then setup a Fat32 partition on the drive so windows install has some place to temp copy files while it starts up. If the drive is configured for some Nix release or strange windows partition format windows won't even give you the option to part the drive during setup. This usually happens because of an incompatible setting in the MBR.

If you want to get really tricky with it I'd use their bootdisk to partition and format the drive - then install win98 source files on the disk and install directly from the drive - it's quite a bit quicker that way.

Posted by Chainsaw Where did you get the idea it's a SCSI system? The only drive shown is an ATA drive and he makes no mention of it.

I didn't look at ALL the pics. I just remember seeing an Ultra and Wide SCSI connectors in one of the pics. But with older servers, you usually need to specify and/or mount the drives. I have an old HP Netserver and it won't see EIDE drives unless I config it to.

And yes, I know you can run SCSI drives alone, but I never said you ABSOLUTELY needed one... I said that you usually needed to install the SCSI or RAID controller drivers at the begining.

Ok... A few months ago (about 8) a friend of mine saw the first computer I built and not knowing much about computers had me assemble one like mine but better. He had the same motherboard as I did (IC7-G) and about a month ago noticed a loud buzzing noise. I look inside and after about 10 seconds find out it is the northbridge fan. I tried to clean it out but it did not fix our problem. So, he orders the Zalman zmnb32j aluminum heatsink cooler. It arrives and he installs it with out telling me about any of this. He used the thermal adhesive to glue it to the Intel 875P (i think thats the right one) Northbridge chipset. Well, now the thing won't give even a bios screen when he hits the power button. So he calls me over. I try throwing a small PCI video card in there to make sure it's not the AGP video card. Doesn't work. I tried reconnecting the NB fan and lying it on the side of the case. No luck. My question.. did he ruin the chip by using the thermal adhesive? Or is a question of him touching the board without touching a grounded object first? Do I need to pitch the board and get him a new one? or am I missing something?

Is there anyway I can set a 800MHz FSB prescott processor to run at 533? or get a 533 board to run at 800MHz

all right here goes. takes a deep breath first i bought a computer from refurb computers for arround $500 only to have it completely died on me not long after. after that i bought "computer building for dummies" and used some free parts to build my own from the wreckige along with both handmedowns and a big box i bought off of my friend (geak that builds all kinds of wierd stuff including a mini version of those electric towers in comand and conquer) this all went into a milk crate and tied to the sides by tie wraps untill recently when i jury rig'd it to the proprietary case of me old comp. since even the power switch only works with the old motherboard i had to attatch a switch whitch came from a radeo. now comes the software problems. it took me about a month to figure out that the motherboard neede drivers and so i had to hunt down a cd. i couldn't use my really old computers documents and games because it was all in FAT and xp is in NTFS as i recently found out. but thats ok the old one was a pentium 2. my newish comp is a pentium 4 2.0 ghtz with 768mb of ram (512 thanks to a good old handmedown from my friend) well i actually had to do pressed ham under glass to a mcdoons drive through for it. i certainly missed the technicly inclined gene in my family

Posted by Sinister Crayon The heatsink fans don't work on my Dual PII. They are all plugged in and the heatsinks are almost at the point of frying. Here are some pictures* of the thing but I don't think they will help. If anyone has any suggestions (Which I doubt they do) please let me know, otherwise, I have to find someplace that'll sell me two heatsinks for 2 PII processors. Also, the HDD doesn't show up for some reason so I can't install 98 on it. click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view *higher resolution pictures are available on request.

i saw a couple of slot heat sinks at the source. they were all the way at the back with the thermal compound. maybe one near you has one