ucould2
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Giday,
I have an inoperable hardrive in a old machine to which I did not have Administrator rights to. We well had a difference the one day and I set out to cleans it's logic away. No nothing to do with the "steak knives" I now have a unusable 20KB HDD that needs some logic thrown it's way. I initially thought I'd just buy a short connecting cable, link the two computers together. Went to a local provider they sold me a cable to do the job(CAT6). Not so....they should of handed me a Crossover cable instead (hours of Web browsing later I might add) which I now have.
Both computers have the correct Ethernet female connections. (lights on the dead P3 system yellow/green but on the "Main frame P4" only green)
The Network Bridge set up on the P4- MAC Bridge Miniport shows a transfer rate 400.0Mbps
The P3 is stuck in a Intel Boot Agent(3.0.04) loop
After I connected the crossover cable and changed a BIOS setting on both the P3 & P4, it now tries to connect to the cable? Runs an address scan "client mac addr: 00 00 E2 51 48 8F guild: 8*F-4*F-4*F-4*F-12*F dhcp..." (numbers are equivalent time the letter appears?) then hangs up goes back to loop.
Why didn't I just put the HDD in the working unit and start from there? Well it wouldn't get past the post screen read. Although it showed up in the BIOS check Type of Memory, Size of, even with it's registration model number(F1 to abort read or Del to return to BIOS) ?
Bought a cheap Raid that made problems worse because when it did not convolute my O/S with hang ups it would not show up correctly in the Device Manager (it was there just without the support tree) not accessible?
All this because I wanted to store some music on the HDD which was working perfectly but it wouldn't let me download it back onto my MP3 player add that to the fact that I couldn't add any drivers or update anything something had to give!!
Sorry :zzz: I've just realised it's a bit of a rant!
I've downloaded an ISO file hopefully then I'll have a DOS O/S of some description but how do I get the non windows P3 to communicate with the XP system P4? Please help....
Thank you
I have an inoperable hardrive in a old machine to which I did not have Administrator rights to. We well had a difference the one day and I set out to cleans it's logic away. No nothing to do with the "steak knives" I now have a unusable 20KB HDD that needs some logic thrown it's way. I initially thought I'd just buy a short connecting cable, link the two computers together. Went to a local provider they sold me a cable to do the job(CAT6). Not so....they should of handed me a Crossover cable instead (hours of Web browsing later I might add) which I now have.
Both computers have the correct Ethernet female connections. (lights on the dead P3 system yellow/green but on the "Main frame P4" only green)
The Network Bridge set up on the P4- MAC Bridge Miniport shows a transfer rate 400.0Mbps
The P3 is stuck in a Intel Boot Agent(3.0.04) loop
After I connected the crossover cable and changed a BIOS setting on both the P3 & P4, it now tries to connect to the cable? Runs an address scan "client mac addr: 00 00 E2 51 48 8F guild: 8*F-4*F-4*F-4*F-12*F dhcp..." (numbers are equivalent time the letter appears?) then hangs up goes back to loop.
Why didn't I just put the HDD in the working unit and start from there? Well it wouldn't get past the post screen read. Although it showed up in the BIOS check Type of Memory, Size of, even with it's registration model number(F1 to abort read or Del to return to BIOS) ?
Bought a cheap Raid that made problems worse because when it did not convolute my O/S with hang ups it would not show up correctly in the Device Manager (it was there just without the support tree) not accessible?
All this because I wanted to store some music on the HDD which was working perfectly but it wouldn't let me download it back onto my MP3 player add that to the fact that I couldn't add any drivers or update anything something had to give!!
Sorry :zzz: I've just realised it's a bit of a rant!
I've downloaded an ISO file hopefully then I'll have a DOS O/S of some description but how do I get the non windows P3 to communicate with the XP system P4? Please help....
Thank you