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Please Help! (modified 0 times) rokkett Profile Here is the story- Got an i-opener that was hacked with 8 Gig HD and 128MB ram and has original gooped bios (flashed) Windows Me on HD.......It was damaged in shipping- the HD was NOT mounted and the thing must have been thrown around pretty good by the USPS and the hardrive not being mounted flopping around inside the case knocked 2 capacitors of the board and it also slammed into the little black inductance coil (470 sml on it or something...possibly 470uh?) causing it to break open exposing the copper winding inside. I soldered the caps back onto the board and powered it up and at the "nothing but net" screen I get "Disk Boot Failure, Insert Disk and Press Enter".....I hit TAB with my stock I-opener keyboard and I get the Award BIOS screen and it says "Detecting IDE PRIMARY MASTER......."NONE". Does anyone have any ideas for me?? Is the inductance coil being broken open causing this? Help would be appreciated!!! Danny V. 01-18-2002 01:05:57

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) Kudzu Profile the HD was NOT mounted and the thing must have been thrown around pretty good by the USPS Have you tested the hdd in your primary system? If it was bounced around enough to damage internal components, it certainly may have damaged the drive. Also, does the bios still recognize the sandisk? 01-18-2002 02:08:03

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) rokkett Profile The hard drive does run...I have not plugged it int another system to see what is up there...I dont know for sure what you mean about the BIOS recognizing the Sandisk. I cant get any of the keys to respond when I boot it up...except "enter" the disk boot failure line will flash every time i hit enter but nothing happens. If I unplug the hardrive and boot it up I can get the i-opener tutorial "Welcome" stuff and thats it. 01-18-2002 02:17:21

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Sounds like you might need a fixed BIOS chip that will boot a hard drive....Badflash.com. After Version #1, the I-Openers all needed a fixed chip to boot anything other than the on-board sandisk. 01-18-2002 04:46:31

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) Ragnar1 Profile Get a standard key board and plug it in. Do you have a y splitter cable? If so, the keyboard connects to the mouse plug, and vice-versa. When you power up hit the ctrl, alt, escape keys simultaneously to enter the bios. If you are successful you will get a big blue screen with info. On the right hand side is a command for hard drive detection. Select it and follow the screen directions. If the drive is good and hooked up right it should be detected. You can use the iopener keyboard to detect the hard drive, but I have forgot the key strokes to do it. It may be the ctrl,alt, del. 01-18-2002 08:57:44

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) rokkett Profile Hi Ragnar...Skol Vikings! I power up and hitting the "tab" key gets me to the screen the has the "Award BIOS" copyright 1984-99 blah blah and under the it says Winchip 200MHZ and something under that says ROM "Not For Sale" Whatever that means....Under that it says Detecting IDE Primary Master..............."NONE" Under that it say detecting IDE slave......"NONE". Under that is a little flashing bar. At the bottom of the screen it says "To Enter Setup, press DEL". I press "delete" with my I-opener keyboard and nothing happens. This screen is kind of a grayish. I take it to into the BIOS I have to get beyond this screen by hitting "DEL" but I cant get anything to happen. My BIOS SHOULD be ok as it was working before. It was flashed by the guy I got it from. I am still wondering if the unductance coil on the board being cracked open has anything to do woth this problem. It still has continuity but whether it still has its same value in micro-henrys I dont know. Plus I powered up the unit with the 2 capacitors not attached when I took it out of the box. I soldered those back on. I am going to radio shack in a few minutes to get a regular keyboard. I have a Y splitter. If I cant get this to work I may need help from everybody. I may put the HD, fan, 128MB memory and get a new BIOS from Jack and pull the un-gooped BIOS out of my regular I-opener (its an older one i think) and use that. It is being used the way it was intended right now with Earthlink but it just cant do enough! That is why I am here. Thanks for your help! Danny V. 01-18-2002 10:07:08

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) redwood Profile its been _awhile.. so, forgive any errors here... Sounds like yer bios, IS flashed..., Don't try to remove a gooped bios chip... press Del to enter setup, is WRONG>>> try, esc, or, any number of Other combos, DEL, won't work... goodluck! 01-18-2002 11:14:10

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) rokkett Profile Hi I got a regular keyboard hooked up now. I can get to the screen that says press "Del" to enter and NOW under that it says press F1 to continue. I press anything and every thing it wont respond. I press "ENTER" and the screen goes black with the "DISK BOOT FAILURE" "Insert DISK AND PRESS ENTER". Why me? Danny V. 01-18-2002 11:43:13

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) Ragnar1 Profile To get to the bios with a regular keyboard with the V1 bios do the Vulcan death pinch, i.e control, alt, escape. Only the V5 bios will allow you to use the del key to enter the bios. Slanka. 01-18-2002 13:30:10

RE:Please Help! (modified 0 times) rokkett Profile THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!!!! I finally got it to boot. What a cool little machine! I had a WIRE PULLED LOOSE from the 44 pin IDE cable. I cant beleive this thing is running with the smashed inductance coil. Thanks again for all your help fellas'!!!!! Danny V. 01-18-2002 22:38:43

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