Win98SE with SCSI Acting Up

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by jldodge, Mar 21, 2006.

  1. jldodge

    jldodge Private First Class

    Win98SE with SCSI, 4 hard drives, 2 CD (Plextor & HP), Sound, USB, Network Card, Phone Modem, Zip Drive, Ditto Dash tape backup ... networked with Win2000 Server and WinXP. Not my workhorse machine but it is functional.

    Because of a virus, I have had to reformat and re-install Win98. The machine worked fine before and I had a backup with all of the drivers, etc.

    Now, I cannot access the zip drive (B) nor the tape machine. The Plextor CD has a blinking light (9 blinks then a pause followed by 9 blinks) and is not accessible even with a CD in it. The HP CD is intermittent. I have loaded software from a CD and then the next CD cannot be read by the machine. All devices are recognized by the SCSI adapter during bootup.

    I am perplexed. The machine was not moved during this time and while I could understand (given its age) that one of the devices might finally fail but it's too widespread. So it must be something else. I have tried to get updated drivers and BIOS software but it was working fine before the reformatting and I have those drivers, etc.

    Can someone offer a few tips, suggestions, advice???

    Thanks in advance ...
     
    jldodge, Mar 21, 2006
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  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    It isnt widespread if the motherboard is dying, make no mistake, this is a weird one! You need to go old school on this and remove as many devices as you can, trying different ide slots to eliminate either the motherboard or hardware. Having additional computers makes it easy to plug these in elsewhere to confirm. Basically, I would yank everything except video and start adding things in to see where the problems start. Obviously if the problems continue regardless of the ide slot you might consider a bad motherboard.

    I hope on reinstall, you were disconnected from the net. You could have gotten infected immediately. If course having Windows 98 on the internet is a risk itself.
     
    Major Attitude, Mar 21, 2006
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  3. jldodge

    jldodge Private First Class

    Yes, I am disconnected from the Internet.

    Can I "disconnect" the devices without unloading windows?. I assume I would power down and disconnect everything but the C drive and build back up from there.

    Note, the tape and iomega are IDE, not SCSI. Would you suggest any particular order when I begin reattaching?
     
    jldodge, Mar 21, 2006
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