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Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) patcat88 Profile I have a V1 or V2 with no epoxy. It has connected to NetPlience till they went up and has been updated. I am trying to connect a laptop HD to it using a badflash cable. When I try to change the BIOS and reboot the unit will only give me a black screen. I power off and on using the cord. And the unit displays the IO screen. It has a unhacked BIOS. Then I check to make sure the BIOS changes took effect and they did. Then I exit the bios and the unit tells me "disk boot failure". The hd will boot to dos on a normal PC. Yes I made it active and Formated and sys C: it. It will report disk boot failure no matter if I set the BIOS to Auto or let the computer detect the CHS or enter it manually. I did change it to boot from only C:. This is either a V1 or V2. It has no epoxy. No one could give me a difference between a v1 and a v2 so I don't know what I'am looking at, but they did say it was either a v1 or v2. Also I don't know how to access the male demo voice. What am I supposed to do to fix this "disk boot failure"? If I can't hack it it will go in the trash! 11-11-2002 17:57:57

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) *SF* Profile You don't mention Master/Slave/Single Hard Drive Jumpers. Most Master/Single are the Same Position, But Western Digital desktop Hard Drives Have 3 Positions. I would try each Boot Order setting. You could have a Bad Cable, I think BadFlash mentioned once like a 1% Failure rate ( 1 bad? out of each 100 Cables ) If You have another I-Opener or access to one, I would try Swaptronics next. Good Luck ! 11-11-2002 19:18:56

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) patcat88 Profile The laptop drive that I use has really small jumpers that i can't find anywhere. But the mannuel says that leving it off puts it in single/master. Is the sandisk interfering with the single mechanism. As I said before the BIOS does detect the laptop drive and reports the right size. I'll have to look for the jupers I bet. 11-12-2002 06:12:17

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) redwood Profile what kind of HD are you using? I use IBM drives, one model is Easy.. another model is a Pain to get working.. now, I forget which is which, but, they have been mentioned on here.. so, if its an IBM, we may have to delve deeper... :) good luck! 11-12-2002 08:08:34

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) ztw4 Profile I had similar problems with different IBM hard drives; some of them just wouldn't work, period. I did end up using an IBM drive, but one IBM definitely didn't work. You might check other discarded components for the mini-size jumpers, I seem to remember I cannabalized an old nonworking HD unit that had a couple on the visible underside of the board. The easiest way to tell the difference between V1 and V2, as I understand it, is that V1 had a female demo voice and V2 had a male demo voice. I have a V2, no epoxy but somewhat frustrating bios, so I needed to use the method that mimics the Sandisk partition on the HD and allows you to run QNX flash. It took a few tries, as I recall, though it's been a while. Please...not in the trash. I know the frustration, have a friend who regularly takes malfunctioning electronics to an anvil in his garage, but someone will want it and perhaps give you a couple bucks. Let go of your anger, Grasshopper... 11-12-2002 10:40:17

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email patcat88: did you go into the CMOS setup (CTRL + ALT + ESC a bunch of times during start up before your o.s. starts) to STANDARD CMOS SETUP and set hard drive settings for both drive c and d to "auto" and "auto"? also in BIOS FEATURES SETUP, set boot sequence to "C only". the i-o will not find a h.d. unless it is looking. have fun, oldman 11-12-2002 21:30:09

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) ketch Profile i have the exact same problem from an iopener i bought at ebay... lol, i probably got it from you :P i've been having problems with an ibm 10gb. i bought a toshiba 1.4 gb from ebay and i'll let you know after i get it. 01-19-2003 01:09:12

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) mp3boombox Profile | Email I just want to check but you DO have a modded IDE cable correct? or a DOUBLE ide connector? If you dont thats your problem right there. As to booting, its always wise to disable the sandisk and leave the hard drive as master. If you have problems still then you just have to pick away at it. First if i where you, I'd try to find a drive that works in teh thing period. If you can do that then your well on your way to getting that other hard drive working. http://members.panax.com/bachh/ My EZnet 200 tower, hacking page. 01-19-2003 13:13:24

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Most of the time this is a problem with not setting up your drive correctly. Be sure you fdisk it as a primary dos partitian, and make the partitian active. Then format with the format /s option to make it bootable. I copy the windows cab files, the drivers, and any software I want onto the drive & then do the install on the IOPENER. The defaults on the V540/V540a should default to C: only and should be fine. Do not auto detect the drives. Leave the drive settings on auto/auto. Here is what to check: Boot up to CMOS setup (hit DEL from the moment you see print on the screen) and select CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP; SET bank X/X Dram timing to 8 ns; SET SDRAM cycle length to 2 Go to BIOS SETUP FEATURES and select BOOT SEQUENCE to C only Go to STANDARD CMOS SETUP and select both C and D drive to : AUTO with their mode : AUTO Save & exit Once you get the ide driver loaded, be sure to select it to a single ide channel or you'll get some ugly conflicts. 01-19-2003 17:29:41

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) zebadiah Profile I'm having a similar problem with a toshiba, the drive works fine in my machine for setup and formatting, but the Iop isnt detecting it at all. 01-19-2003 17:38:06

RE:Total stumped! HD won't boot. (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email If the IOpener won't detect the drive at all, then you most likely have a faulty cable. Get one of the "double-header" cables from Badflash -- it's WAY more reliable than twisting cable-pairs and crimping on your own. -WP 02-03-2003 23:18:35

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