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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!
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!