Thief13x on 20/1/2003 at 17:55
I'm coming to you for help with a problem i am having with my "other computer". A couple weeks ago it crashed, i was swapping out cd rom drives and i think i zapped my hard drive with my operating system on it. So i ordered a new one and got it today. I formated it and got it all ready to install windows on. I put in my startup disk and went to "start computer with cd rom support". So it detects the cd rom drive fine but just as its going through its thing of detecting and is almost ready to let you type setup, it gets stuck on the one command "Scanning PCI bus using mechanism #2...". Ive let it sit there for 3 hours and nothing happens. I think it must be somthing in the bios that i have to mess with but im not sure what. If somone could plllllz help me with this problem it would be greatly appriciated. Thanks
Timmy
santaClaws on 20/1/2003 at 22:04
I can't help you, however it might have been better for all of us if you had started this thread somewhere else. For the regular DeusEx forum readers, for this has nothing to do with the game, and for you, for somewhere else on these boards, there may be more competent people who can really answer this question. I doubt the thread will remain here for long anyway, it's gonna get moved soon.
ferret on 21/1/2003 at 18:39
You probably have the drive jumper settings wrong. Look on the label of the drive, and make sure that the little plastic clip on the back of the drive is set in the "master" position. Then, make sure that it's on the end of the flat grey-ish cable (not the middle).
If there's nothing on the label of the drive, or it's just too odd to work out, look (using a good light source) to see if there are any little letters printed near the little pins with the tiny plastic removable doodad (the jumper) on the rear end of the hard drive.
If any of them says M, put the jumper on that one (so the jumper is vertical, usually)
{ADDED: Keep in your mind foremost how the jumpers are set originally! You should always remember how to get back to how they were, in case this makes it somehow worse.
If none of these things help, it's entirely possible that your original hard drive wasn't at fault. See if you can find a friend who can test it in their computer. It may be that you have a faulty motherboard.}
