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rev3B 06/23 w/ good flash gives black screen w/ drive connected
seeking advice to get iopener to boot

New Messagerev3B 06/23 w/ good flash gives black screen w/ drive connected (modified 0 times) laserRS
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Hi all, I've searched and I've tried a bunch
of things, so here goes, maybe someone has
seen this:

I've got an IOpener that I've put the rev1
BIOS (nothing but net logo) into. It boots
great w/o a drive, but with either of two
hard drives I have, both of which boot
my laptop, the IOpener won't even display
the boot logo. I have even tried to make one of the drives match the c/h/s of the flash,
no go. Any thoughts?

many thanks in advance.

07-31-2000 07:11:20

New MessageRE:rev3B 06/23 w/ good flash gives black screen w/ drive connected (modified 0 times) will
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All the signs point to your cable- as long as you have your drives booting the laptop zero in on the way you have connected your modified ide cable.
07-31-2000 11:55:51

New MessageRE:rev3B 06/23 w/ good flash gives black screen w/ drive connected (modified 0 times) will
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All the signs point to your cable- as long as you have your drives booting the laptop zero in on the way you have connected your modified ide cable. There is no need to "match c/h/s of the flash" Do a search for setting the "primary ide channel only"
07-31-2000 11:59:50

New MessageRE:rev3B 06/23 w/ good flash gives black screen w/ drive connected (modified 0 times) BadFlash
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I second the bad cable or un-modified cable issue. Even if you have the drive set up wrong the I-O will boot, but if you use an unmodified cable or one with shorted leads I think the power & grounds get messed around and it won't boot.
08-01-2000 02:32:30

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