Heya,
> My 3rd 560x will boot from a PC card with a dead hard drive present.
> Does it make any difference if you set the BIOS to boot from the PC card
> then the floppy?
Nope, fiddled with the order plenty :-(
> Will it boot from floppy?
Yes, that it will.
> I could imagine a POST test that would want to see some sort of IDE
> device present on start up.
Yes, that's the I9990305 or something like it code. Basically its
failed to find a bootable drive on the IDE bus and it conks out.
> You could use one of the PCMCIA-IDE adapters to plug the card into your
> IDE cable but you may not want to go that route.
> Let me know if you want the URL for the adapter.
A lot of those are 40pin IDE based, I have yet to find a 44pin variant,
as the 40 pin ones also need the power cable and I'm not about to hack
a cable to make it work.
Instead I have placed a bid for a cheap 2gig IDE drive, as I just
remembered the 560X will need a hard disk for MP3s until I can afford a
suitable compact flash card. (512MB or so)
> Good Luck
Thanks for the help :-)
Vicky
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