Nitrousbird Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Bought another PC online, IBM Thinkcentre M50 8188 - When it came, wouldn't POST at all. Come to find the CPU wasn't even in place; was just flopping around w/ the heat sink stuck to it. Cleaned the old grease off, re-greased, and installed correctly. Posted fine to whatever DOS BS they had on it. - Installed AGP card, another 2GB memory, and swapped in a 120GB HD. - Installing Vista, says that BIOS doesn't recognize HD as a bootable drive. Play with BIOS settings, no go. - Notice there is no jumper on drive (Ultra ATA drive); set it to master; it is on primary IDE slot, not shared. - After I do this, it got stuck on POST. The IBM splash screen comes up (no beeps), and is stuck there. Hitting enter to go to BIOS just makes that prompt go away, but nothing happens. Hitting ESC brings up the POST checks, w/ hitting F1 to get to the BIOS setup, but again, just hangs there. - Tried the CMOS/Boot Block recovery, no go - Tried the boot block recovery w/ re-installing BIOS via floppy. Procedure goes as instructed, but same issue when I try to boot up. - Put everything back to what it came with, no go. Discoed all IDE cables from mother board, and again no go. I'm about to send the damn thing back (and not tell them I touched anything), but is there ANYTHING else for me to try? Setting a hard drive to master should not have done this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Take the jumper off the master and put it on single if the drive has it. Also double check to make sure the cable is plugged in the right way. If you put ide in backwards on somemobos no post at all some never leave bios screen. Test the drive in another working machine make sure the drive is good, If it detect fine in the other machine as good check the ide cable. Try pluggin the HD into the dvd/cdrom drives cable and see what it does if it does not freeze its very possible you just have a bad cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted July 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 - I tried a different HD as well, no go. Also tried different jumper settings on the hard drive. - You can only plug the IDE cables in one way; there is a notch on them. - Tried the other IDE cable, and tried all with/without them plugged in - Tried different memory module...again, no go. At this point, I'm sending the damn thing back. That processor banging around during shipping had me worried enough about this thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhead Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 No jumper on the HD also means master, there have been times where that's the only way I've been able to get it to work, is with no jumper. Pull it off again, try XP just in case Vista isn't happy with something in the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street pilot Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Maybe thats why you got it for less $$ than mine http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38392 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 try updating the BIOS... I know that I had to update my BIOS to load Windows XP as well as VISTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Yeah Westerndigital requires something special jumper wise apose to other drives for a single drive in the chain. I say shit the bitch back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Remove everything except 1 hard drive, video card, keyboard and mouse, try to substitute the hard drive and video card from a working machine. I have had computers that would not pass POST because like the sound card or video card was dead. Keep swapping pieces out one at a time until you can rule out which hardware does work with this computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted July 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 No jumper on the HD also means master, there have been times where that's the only way I've been able to get it to work, is with no jumper. Pull it off again, try XP just in case Vista isn't happy with something in the computer. Tried two hard drives, with jumpers on/off, and following diagram on hard drive. XP and Vista have nothing to do with it; the machine won't even POST, so it's not even getting to the point of booting anything up. Maybe thats why you got it for less $$ than mine http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38392 I looked at the feedback of the seller, who sold a ton of these machines; looks like I was the only unlucky one. Sorry if you don't know what your machine is worth. try updating the BIOS... I know that I had to update my BIOS to load Windows XP as well as VISTA Already updated it, no go. Remove everything except 1 hard drive, video card, keyboard and mouse, try to substitute the hard drive and video card from a working machine. I have had computers that would not pass POST because like the sound card or video card was dead. Keep swapping pieces out one at a time until you can rule out which hardware does work with this computer. Has both AGP and integrated video. No card installed in any slots, tried two hard drives, and bypassed all other drives...no luck. I'm just sending it back; it's a lost cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Sorry about your luck =( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwilli1647545487 Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 1. Pour a nice hot bath. 2. Turn on your Syris radio 3. Plug in PC 4. Place PC on edge of bath. 5. Get in bath. 6. slide PC into water with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted July 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 1. Pour a nice hot bath. 2. Turn on your Syris radio 3. Plug in PC 4. Place PC on edge of bath. 5. Get in bath. 6. slide PC into water with you. Howard, I'm not taking a bath with you again. I can't believe I fell for that the last time.... And it's Sirius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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