Need help, with a project.

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Hupo

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hello. So I got a old gateway im toying around with. I formatted the harddrive and everything. I took the wires out and put it back in. But now It wont boot from the cd like I tell it to do in the bios (phoenix bios) and a message comes up saying " Please remove any removable media" Or something along those lines. I have nothing in the cd tray or floppy a. Whats up with this?
 
'I took the wires out and put it back in"

what wires?.....humor me and look at you bios one more time
 
Was there any blue smoke at the time?

If so. You might need to find it and put it back in.
 
lol relax people. They were the IDE wires. On the motherboard there Primarry ide connector (for the flat wires) and secondary. I put the ide in both and connected primary to my HDD and secondary into my cd rom. The floppy flatwire connector on my mobo i obviously connected into my floppy. Then I connected that one wire that goes into the cd rom drive (the little one) and it all looks good.
 
are the IDE cables installed correctly? (the wire with the red stripe is on the pin-1 side of the motherboard and closest to the power connector on the HD)?


Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

 
is your cd/rom and HDD set up to be cable select, master, slave, etc? are these conflicting with how your IDE is wired?

Is your cd/rom so old that it cannot boot from cd? I know there are a bunch out there.(older ones that is) Have you tried using a different cd/rom drive?
 
What is folding? Ill take pictures one second.
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problem im having is it not booting from the cd. I tried it again and now it just says cannot find a operating system. Which is good though. its a gateway g6 366c btw.
 
So, the BIOS detects both the CDROM and the HDD, right? If not, its a cable/drive problem. If so, then the cdrom might be dead. test it in another system. you may need a bios update.
 
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