"grafxfriday" wrote in message ...
Hi Ben, Gary and Rebel,
OK first new info then what I did(operations) then Questions.

New Info
I do have the Windows 98 book with the cd key but no book for the eMachine
itself.
AMIBIOS version 1.20, base memory 641kb, Ext. Memory 262144.
Hard Drive is Seagate U4 Model ST34311A, 4.3Gbytes, Firmware 6.01, 8944 CYL,
15HDE and 63 SECT.
Motherboard is Intel AGPse FW8243LZ. I also found jumper settings.
Operations
Hardware
I opened the computer and reseated the cable ribbons to and from the
motherboard (3) and the CDROM ribbon also.
Reseated the 2 Dimms cards and all connections on Motherboard and CDROM.
BIOS
SETUP - I reset BIOS to auto. The only thing it detected was CDROM in
Secondary Master. (the Primary Slave was 26).
UTILITY - clicked detect IDE, went to autodetect. again the only thing that
was detected was SM CDROM.
DEFAULT - Clicked load optimal.
Then proceeded to startup error 202:boot failure and 203:insert boot
diskette in A.
I inserted cd then pressed format HDD with step by step.
path=a:\ N.
a:\format c: invalid drive specification.
snip

Make sure the drive is jumpered correctly, probably "Master, slave not
present". Also, you might try the drive in a known good computer or
put a known good drive in the computer with the problem.

Ben

Ben