Re: MESS
From: kurttrail (dontemailme_at_anywhereintheknowuniverse.org)
Date: 02/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:21:56 -0500
Scorpiobuzz wrote:
> I have made a true mess of things inside my computer. I got a
> computer from a friend to work with. If anyone can walk me through
> this mess, I would greatly appreciate it. Here is what I have:
> 1. Quantum Fireball ST - This has a bigger cable connection 50pin?
> 2. Quantum Fireball EX - This has the little cable connection 38pin?
> 3. A card in the PCI? slot with a connection for the 50pin?
> connection
> 4. Toshiba CD-Rom drive with the same 50pin? connection.
> 5. A zip drive that apparently attached to another card in the PCI
> slot - only smaller.
> 6. Pentium II on the mother board with two little connection places
> for the 38pin? connection.
>
> Now, I turned the thing on and went to a NT Server log-on screen. I
> then brilliantly went to the scsi utility and formated the Fireball
> ST drive, thinking that I definately didn't want that NT server info.
> Then I got frustrated and unhooked everything, experimented with a few
> different things to no avail. And now I am sitting in front of an
> open shell with all the omponnents out and in front of me.
> Apparently, there are jumper settings and SCSI ID's and whole bunch
> of other things I only barely understand.
>
> So, I just want to put it all back together, throw on XP, load up
> some music programs and play. Can someone walk me through how to get
> there...or is it like the old song "you can't get there from here"?
> Help!
LOL! You get the total effin' moron of the day award! And you had some
stiff competition today, but you take the cake!
-- Peace! Kurt Self-anointed Moderator microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea http://microscum.com/mscommunity "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron! "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
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