Re: MESS

From: Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\) (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:37:23 -0500

Your friend has done you no favours.. I have no idea how much you paid for
it, but anything would be too much..

It appears to have been cobbled together, and I don't doubt that you have no
manuals, literature, CD's or anything else that might get it to work..

I would suggest that you take it back to your friend and get a refund.. new
entry level computers are very cheap these days and come with all that you
need for a reasonable computing experience.. 

-- 
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
"Scorpiobuzz" <Scorpiobuzz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:DD69A780-81B2-41A2-9530-9E046F7C95C0@microsoft.com...
>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!

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