Quote Originally Posted by confus-ed
Do this bit dude ! - back to front cables produce pretty much the symptoms you are describing


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I removed harddrive from IDE cable and booted up no operating system found
then reconnected and same thing. could not see what was in floppy.
I used 98 start up disk. WHEN YOU SAY front to back I am getting confused . I think of board on side or bottom depending on how you stand computer to operate. Back would be power connection, video, audio,Printer,
ETC. FRONT would be on button cd roms ETC, When using 98 harddrive we had no problems with loop. I just unplugged failed drive and plugged in 98 drive IDE AND POWER and had it laying at bottom of case (tower).
Back to Front cables?