🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:11:18 GMT, relloman@beasty.com
(rello) wrote:

>have a strange problem with an old aptiva
>specs are:
>win98, 128 meg ram, 4 gig HD k6 300cpu
>all works beautifully with the original CD reader
>ide setup is: ide 1 master = hd0 
>ide 1 slave = hd1
>ide 2  master = CD drive
>
>when i replace reader with a 52x ide CDRW it starts acting weird
>it won't boot ie startup screen doesnt appear
>so i disconnect ide 1 [slave hd1]
>it boots to a bios error
>PS2 pointing device not present - f1 to enter setup enter  to continue
>it then boots into windows but as soon as i put a cd in the drive the
>system hangs and after reset it hangs on a blank screen and refuse to
>boot
>
>after disconnecting various devices [cd burner or had disk etc] it
>will eventuall boot again but without mouse port....i reinstall
>original cd reader and it works fine.....
>i hve tried 2 [brand new] burners [LG and mitsubishi] with the same
>result...and yes the jumpers on the burners are set correctly
>
>weird thing is when i boot with the aptiva recovery cd in the burner
>and run image restore [using the format hd0 option] it runs the full
>restore  program and then  boots into windows...as soon as i put a cd
>in the drive it imediately hangs windows and refuse to boot again...
>never seen anything like this and have set up countless new burners in
>win98 machines and never seen anything like this before
>
>thanks for your comments
>
>relloman

you might try updating the motherboard bios if it's not
running the most current version.