Hello, Jean.
-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to MATT MC_CARTHY <=-

 JP>      Good morning, Matt.

 JP>     I am trying to resuscitate an old P-166. It will not see the
 JP>     boot disk. I changed all that I could think of in the hardware.
 JP>     My question is if I BIOS it over to boot from the CD-ROM, does
 JP>     it have to be able to still see the IDE-1 master ? I think that
 JP>     the HDD is seized. The auto HD selection in BIOS will not see
 JP>    it. I was hoping to use it from the CD-ROM that has all the boot
 JP>    stuff.

 JP>    As far as hardware is concerned, at the end, I only had the HDD
 JP>    connected and live. Still nothing and I do not have an ERD here.

I can mail you an ERD if you like - send me an email
jim.holsonback{at}juno.com if you want one.  But - I don't think it will do
you any good if your System BIOS will not autodetect the HDD parameters,
it can't find the HDD and the ERD won't help.

From this and your other posts to/from Matt, sounds like either the HDD
has died, or perhaps the first IDE channel has died on the Mainboard.  I
had that happen to me about a year ago on an Asus board with AMD k6-2.-
HDD suddenly stopped working and wouldn't autodetect.  I moved it to the
secondary channel and it autodetected just fine and I could access the
drive. Turned out the first IDE channel had just up and died, for no
apparent reason.

You still thinking of coming to Orlando to see where I volunteer
sometime on this trip?  If so, you could bring the box with you and we
could look into it at the shop.  Even if your HDD or one of your IDE
channels is dead, we could probably find a used replacement for modest
cost.
 - - -  JimH.

... "Bother!" said Pooh, as his system couldn't find his hard drive
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