Re: Jumpers on an AST Premmia P90
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On 3 Mar 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need some advise. I came by the shell of a AST Premmia GX with a P90
> chip in it. I found old or replacement hard drive (1Gb), floppy, CD
> drive, a nic, cables, some additional memory etc, etc. It is, on the
> face of it "good-to-go". Unfortunatly, it don't go!
>
> The plan is to install debian and use the machine as a firewall. I
> want to learn how they work, and there are a number of machines on the
> lan at home that would benifit from the protection.
>
> When turned on the machine starts the post, gets tñhrough counting the
> 48mb of ram, blinks the floppy then stops. As I understand it there is
> a scsi interface on the board and there was a scsi hard drive
> fitted. It now has an ide drive fitted and I am pretty sure that to
> get this to work is a matter of jumper settings, but I have no
> manual. I have "Googled" all options that seem reasonable, I have been
> to "Tom's Hardware", in short I have done all I can think of, but have
> lucked out. So....
>
> Can any one suggest where I can get a manual, view one, copy one. An
> url that might help?. Best of all a link to a pdf. Any suggestions -
> I am stuck at the moment.
>
This kind of information is hard to find for consumers. It is only seldom
that you ran onto someone who owns a 'motherboard jumper cd', which
contains the jumper configurations for loads of motherboards.
Usually there is usefull information on the motherboard itself, but you
will have to look closely.
Another approach is just trail and error: switch some jumpers nearby the
scsi connector and scsi chip. Be sure to write down the current jumper
settings before you start!
You can also try to reset the bios, either soft or hard.
Or before you start, just try to connect a scsi drive to ensure this is
the problem in fact. I do not think a mainboard should stop when a
misconfiguration is detected (no harddisk). This should be able to be
helped to configure your bios correctly.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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