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Originally posted by Belisarius Erm . . . we weren't talking about your internet connection. We were talking about the cables that you use to connect the drives to the motherboard.
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Oh, gotcha. These internal cables were set up by the guys who came around to upgrade my system and everything has been hunky-dory since then until recently. I can't get to grips with the innards myself as I'm physically disabled and so always look for keyboard solutions.
But here is some info I've gleaned from Belarc Advisor and which may help:-
"Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222)
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.73 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: K7VT2 2.00
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P1.30 03/07/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
14.49 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
9.80 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
ATAPI CDROM 52X [CD-ROM drive]
LG CD-RW CED-8080B [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")
Maxtor 84320D4 [Hard drive] (4.32 GB) -- drive 0, s/n L41SKH6A, rev NAVX1E20, SMART Status: Healthy
SAMSUNG SV1021H [Hard drive] (10.21 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 0272J1FR302979, rev PJ100-12, SMART Status: Healthy 256 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot '0' has 256 MB
Local Drive Volumes
c: (on drive 0) 4.30 GB 2.32 GB free MAXTOR
d: (on drive 1) 10.19 GB 7.49 GB free SAMSUNG
Controllers Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X [Display adapter]
AOC 7K [Monitor] (15.7"vis, October 2002)"
I have since got this info from ba.exe:-
"BIOS Date: 03/07/03
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 62-P130-001368-00101111-040201-VIA_K7-K7VT2130
OEM Sign-On: K7VT2 BIOS P1.30
Chipset: VIA 82C3099 rev 0
Superio: Winbond 697HF rev 2 found at port 2Eh
OS: Win98
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ 1733 Mhz MAX: 3000 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
Memory Installed: 256 MB
Memory Maximum: 4096 MB
Memory Slot 01: 256 MB"