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hank
Hi,
My system as relevant to the problem consists of a Pentium 166 MHz
CPU, running Win98 with an (old) Award BIOS for the boot-up sequence..
The storage is a small (less than) 2 Gig SCSI hard drive that is the
boot drive (partitioned as C: and D and a second non-booting 8 Gig
IDE hard drive (partitioned as E: and F.
My problem is that the boot drive (the SCSI) sometimes loads Windows
and sometimes does not. That is to say, the system goes through the
Award BIOS without a problem (it does the memory test and cycles up
the A: and B: floppies and puts up the BIOS screen on the monitor
etc.) but when it should start loading Windows and the first Windows
98 screen should show up on the monitor it stalls (although sometimes
it does proceed normally and I then have a working system!) with the
BIOS screen and just sits there! When this happens, I can hear the
SCSI harddrive rev up and then a few seconds later hear one single
click (something like a circuit-breaker popping?) and then I know that
Windows will not appear and I hear the drive rev down. Failure of the
system always is accompanied by this single click.
I have tried to reseat the SCSI board and the edge connectors on the
hard drive, but this has not changed anything. I have not yet cleaned
the contacts with solution (What is it called?). That might help.
Anyone have any ideas of what my problem might be? What could this
click sound be. It is not continuous grinding or clicking, but just
one click. Are there any circuit breakers or anything on the mother
board, SCSI board or the hard drive that would cause this click and
then rev down the hard drive?
Thank for the help in advance.
Hankman
PS: At one point the Award BIOS (I think) sent a message at boot-up
that read:
Updating ESCD....... Success
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: Creative CD1220E.......... Failure
Disk Boot failure, Insert System Disk and Press ENTER.
I only got this message a couple of times and no longer see it.
Any idea of what ESCD is?
Also why did I only see this message a couple of times and not anymore
(or when the problem began)?
Thanks again
Hankman
My system as relevant to the problem consists of a Pentium 166 MHz
CPU, running Win98 with an (old) Award BIOS for the boot-up sequence..
The storage is a small (less than) 2 Gig SCSI hard drive that is the
boot drive (partitioned as C: and D and a second non-booting 8 Gig
IDE hard drive (partitioned as E: and F.
My problem is that the boot drive (the SCSI) sometimes loads Windows
and sometimes does not. That is to say, the system goes through the
Award BIOS without a problem (it does the memory test and cycles up
the A: and B: floppies and puts up the BIOS screen on the monitor
etc.) but when it should start loading Windows and the first Windows
98 screen should show up on the monitor it stalls (although sometimes
it does proceed normally and I then have a working system!) with the
BIOS screen and just sits there! When this happens, I can hear the
SCSI harddrive rev up and then a few seconds later hear one single
click (something like a circuit-breaker popping?) and then I know that
Windows will not appear and I hear the drive rev down. Failure of the
system always is accompanied by this single click.
I have tried to reseat the SCSI board and the edge connectors on the
hard drive, but this has not changed anything. I have not yet cleaned
the contacts with solution (What is it called?). That might help.
Anyone have any ideas of what my problem might be? What could this
click sound be. It is not continuous grinding or clicking, but just
one click. Are there any circuit breakers or anything on the mother
board, SCSI board or the hard drive that would cause this click and
then rev down the hard drive?
Thank for the help in advance.
Hankman
PS: At one point the Award BIOS (I think) sent a message at boot-up
that read:
Updating ESCD....... Success
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: Creative CD1220E.......... Failure
Disk Boot failure, Insert System Disk and Press ENTER.
I only got this message a couple of times and no longer see it.
Any idea of what ESCD is?
Also why did I only see this message a couple of times and not anymore
(or when the problem began)?
Thanks again
Hankman