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Problems converting webplayer (modified 0 times) Phreddy Profile | Email I have a couple of un hacked webplayers arrived... Have all the bits I should need and no problem opening and getting it ready... I have a 2GB 2.5 drive from a point 510 webpad and have formated this and made it so that it boots to dos on any other machine (as well as having a second part with the Win98 CD copied to it)... I have gone through the BIOS and set up the IDE controller to work and it recognises the drive... I am sure the drive is physically installed fine as if I wire the cable the opposite way round (I could see no pin1 indication on the MB) the machine boots the DOC imag... When I have it the right way round I get... Invalid system disk please insert system disk and press any key... The HD boots any other desktop... I have tried all the messing in the BIOS I can think of... This is a W98 bot disk I made on the c:\ partition... Any suggestions ??? ----- Phat Phreddy 10-10-2002 11:25:09

RE:Problems converting webplayer (modified 0 times) kcr1 Profile The webplayer bios is very buggy. When I boot a 10gb disk, I must have one partition use the entire disk. If not, I get the invalid system disk message. Multiple partitions, or one partition not using the whole disk always fails. Chad http://www.kcrproducts.com/virgin 10-10-2002 18:26:04

RE:Problems converting webplayer (modified 0 times) Tron Profile kcr1: Thats odd, i have a 12gb drive in mine with multiple partitions and it boots just fine. Phreddy: in the bios go to the second to last tab across the top, i cant remember how its labled but it will have two items, you have to make sure that you move the hard disk drive option above the other option. As for pin numbers here is an image showing that /http://mail.nycollege.edu/wp/hdled3.html . If you plugged the drive in wrong you may want to plug it back into your desktop or other machine to make sure you didnt ruin it. Hope that helps some. 10-10-2002 23:38:45

RE:Problems converting webplayer (modified 1 times) Phreddy Profile | Email Well I sorted it in the wee small hours.... Firstly I re formated the c:\ section under DOS with a /S switch rather than under 98... This time it would boot and show an inch of garbage at the bottom of the screen so I knew I was effecting it... After that changing a bunch of settings in the BIOS in one go so cant be sure but I think it was setting a 3 sec delay on allowing the HD to spin up that solved this.... Win98 is now on there.... I have installed all the drivers I have found (PCI Bridge / UDMA / Vid / Audio) but dont have any sound.... Also dont have the driver for the modem (need the modem on this one)... 10-11-2002 01:05:27

RE:Problems converting webplayer (modified 0 times) jpe_dty Profile To get sound, mute line in. I don't know why that works. I have the modem driver on my website: http://jpe45305.homeunix.org/dl 10-11-2002 15:47:41

RE:Problems converting webplayer (modified 0 times) zmoz Profile Modem shouldn't need any drivers but the generic 56k drivers that come with windows 98... 10-11-2002 16:02:38

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