RaptorZX3
Experienced Member
I found that the board seem to freeze after detecting the hard disk. Here are 2 photos i took:
When i remove the hard disk from this setup, it detect the CDRom "ATAPI CDRom"...something, it's a 32x cdrom drive (but doesn't boot from CD though), and it try to find a boot disk in the 3.5" floppy drive and (of course) it say "boot fail" etc.. (i'll have to create a Windows 98 bootable install floppy)
When trying to enter "512" in Sec (for Sectors, or "Bytes the Sector?") it says "E" for error, and seem to detect up to 8gb only.
Is it just something stupid like "your 40gb hard disk is too big or the ATA speed is too fast to be recognized by this old Pentium CPU" or something?
Because i remember the 3.5gb hard disk i had on my Pentium 200 MMX at the time, it had something written on it like "AT-compatible", it was a WD Caviar. Does that mean i should start looking for an old 3gb-10gb hard disk?
I tried resetting the CMOS, and restoring normal default settings (in the BIOS, you have the choice of "default, optimized, turbo")
i tested the 40gb hard disk on my other Pentium 3 computer and it get detected without freezing. So i just need to know if it's just too "new" or too big for the Pentium 1 MMX to get detected just right.
EDIT: i did more tests, and the setup, without a hard disk, after updating the BIOS to "R3.C0" (i created a system floppy with command.com on another PC with Windows 98, and placed BIOS flash software and ROM), is able to boot from cdrom drive.
When i remove the hard disk from this setup, it detect the CDRom "ATAPI CDRom"...something, it's a 32x cdrom drive (but doesn't boot from CD though), and it try to find a boot disk in the 3.5" floppy drive and (of course) it say "boot fail" etc.. (i'll have to create a Windows 98 bootable install floppy)
When trying to enter "512" in Sec (for Sectors, or "Bytes the Sector?") it says "E" for error, and seem to detect up to 8gb only.
Is it just something stupid like "your 40gb hard disk is too big or the ATA speed is too fast to be recognized by this old Pentium CPU" or something?
Because i remember the 3.5gb hard disk i had on my Pentium 200 MMX at the time, it had something written on it like "AT-compatible", it was a WD Caviar. Does that mean i should start looking for an old 3gb-10gb hard disk?
I tried resetting the CMOS, and restoring normal default settings (in the BIOS, you have the choice of "default, optimized, turbo")
i tested the 40gb hard disk on my other Pentium 3 computer and it get detected without freezing. So i just need to know if it's just too "new" or too big for the Pentium 1 MMX to get detected just right.
EDIT: i did more tests, and the setup, without a hard disk, after updating the BIOS to "R3.C0" (i created a system floppy with command.com on another PC with Windows 98, and placed BIOS flash software and ROM), is able to boot from cdrom drive.
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