Help please. Dip switches and mach 3 settings

[john swift]

which is the boot drive ?


try booting the PC with no drives connected
and see if you can get into the bios

If you can
try connecting the DVD drive and see if it will boot from the windows installation disk

if that works
next try adding the IDE drive

and then the crucial solid state drive


if all 3 drives are connected to the IDE ribbon cables

you can only connect one master and one slave to each cable


it looks like all three drives are set to master !

if you have two master devices on one IDE ribbon cable
that could stop the motherboard from booting and take a very long time to respond to attempts to boot in to the bios

do you have 3 IDE ports ?

John