I just attempted to recap a board for my sister, and all went well. I double-checked the solder joints with the pocket microscope, and touched up where necessary.
I'm starting to like the convenience of the flux-pen i bought.
Anyway, everything was going fine until.......i tried to install an OS. I began to think there was something wrong with the hard drive so i substituted with a CF-to-IDE adapter. No access.
Reconnecting the hard drive and starting FDISK allowed me to partition the disk. FDISK seemed to see the correct size of the disk 78,xxx MB. When i formatted the disk only 12,xxx MB appeared.
I was told that this board was doing some pretty crazy things before it was brought to me but i'll have to ask about the hard drive controller.
*What was mentioned was that the board would only recognize one memory slot.
My Question: Even though i cleared the CMOS before starting it, could the firmware still be hung in this odd state?
I have an application that seems to work better at clearing the CMOS than a 'Load Defaults' and i wonder if it could work where a 'clear-CMOS-jumper' operation failed.
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I'm starting to like the convenience of the flux-pen i bought.
Anyway, everything was going fine until.......i tried to install an OS. I began to think there was something wrong with the hard drive so i substituted with a CF-to-IDE adapter. No access.
Reconnecting the hard drive and starting FDISK allowed me to partition the disk. FDISK seemed to see the correct size of the disk 78,xxx MB. When i formatted the disk only 12,xxx MB appeared.

I was told that this board was doing some pretty crazy things before it was brought to me but i'll have to ask about the hard drive controller.
*What was mentioned was that the board would only recognize one memory slot.
My Question: Even though i cleared the CMOS before starting it, could the firmware still be hung in this odd state?
I have an application that seems to work better at clearing the CMOS than a 'Load Defaults' and i wonder if it could work where a 'clear-CMOS-jumper' operation failed.
.
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