HELP ME LOL.

I let my students loose on a fully working pc. Guess what it dont work no more lol.

I told them to change the floppy drive over as a part of there exam they did it fine. Asked them to change the cd drive pop everything went potty now the computer is picking up a 5 1/4 inch floppy wont detect the 3 1/2 inch floppy and the harddrive is going nuts.

Can any help me lol.

What type of error code if any? Do you get any beeps when you boot up? If so how many and what type(IE long, short beeps) What type of noise is the hard drive making? Clicking? Banging? Or just like a busy read and write? Can you see the BIOS recognize all of your IDE devices at boot up? Note you may have to turn off the boot up display by pressing <TAB> or <esc> during the initial start up to see if the devices are recognized.
I assume you did all the standard troubleshooting. Cables plugged in and installed correctly. Red line goes to the 1 pin for your IDE devices. Stuff like that.

Yeah done all the normal stuff.

I have now got the floppy drive and the harddrive working correctly. But still it wont read or pick up the cd-drive.

I got power going to the cd-drive but nothing else.

hehehe.. poor Technics :)
Well try fidling around with the data cable. The cable which goes to your hard disk must be having another outlet somewhere in the middle. Put that into the Cd-rom. And try to detect it as the Primary Slave. Also, check the Jumper settimng of the cd-rom. See what they are set to. Hope this helps.

This may be stupid, ODE mentioned it. Just because you've got the red stripe correct on the CD-ROM, that doesn't mean the cable is pluggend into the MB correctly. Does the CD-ROM activity light stay on? If so, the cable is swapydooed.

Doesnt do right much at the moment its sitting by the side of the machine. I had it connected right. The light came on wyhen u first switched the machine on then that was it. The only function it did after that was open and close.

So then, it is getting power. All you need to do is figure out which data cable. Try out what I said, might work, it did for me :D

Will do and if it dont i got plenty of room in the bin lol.

Is the purpose to restore the pc to working order or to have your students learn how to restore it to working order?

Either way, check the connections (make sure all cables are properly attached at both ends).

Properly utilized, computers can be a good learning tool in teaching precision, not making assumptions, and being methodical in one's work.

A saying I devised might help here, "Assume nothing, test everything."

[Edited by Duster on 10-19-2000 at 05:37 PM]

We had 3 cdroms go bad within a week of each other on some PII400 Microns. Micron took care of the problems very quickly, 2 days I think. So . . . don't rule out the cdrom being bad as well.