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Internal Zip causing probs?
Hi there,
My old pc died and I took the internal zip out an placed it into my newer pc but I am having probs with it. When i go to explore the zip contents 'Widows Exploring' crawls and sometimes it hangs on me. This I find weird as the spec for my old pc (which never gave me any probs regarding the zip) was similiar in hardware as the new one, old PC (the following were installed) HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=WNT (cant remember the way the ribbons were set up) New PC ATA HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=W2K (One ribbon to HD, One ribbon shared between the std CD-Rom and the Zip, remaining 2 ribbons to the CDR-RW and floppy, It seems that this is causing a performance problem with the zip any suggestion would be much appreciated, thanks a mill Tom |
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My last Zip100 did almost the same thing,,,broke two machines(wouldn't boot
with it installed) after slowing down both. "Tom" wrote in message ... Hi there, My old pc died and I took the internal zip out an placed it into my newer pc but I am having probs with it. When i go to explore the zip contents 'Widows Exploring' crawls and sometimes it hangs on me. This I find weird as the spec for my old pc (which never gave me any probs regarding the zip) was similiar in hardware as the new one, old PC (the following were installed) HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=WNT (cant remember the way the ribbons were set up) New PC ATA HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=W2K (One ribbon to HD, One ribbon shared between the std CD-Rom and the Zip, remaining 2 ribbons to the CDR-RW and floppy, It seems that this is causing a performance problem with the zip any suggestion would be much appreciated, thanks a mill Tom |
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I had the same problem with an internal Zip. Turns out it was some conflict
with the chipset on the motherboard. Specifically, internal Zip 100 drives will not work with the VIA KT133 / VT82C686B chipset. I believe there is a patch available on the Iomega website - www.iomega.com. Try downloading the latest drivers for your mobo and Zip, it's worth a try. "Tom" wrote in message ... Hi there, My old pc died and I took the internal zip out an placed it into my newer pc but I am having probs with it. When i go to explore the zip contents 'Widows Exploring' crawls and sometimes it hangs on me. This I find weird as the spec for my old pc (which never gave me any probs regarding the zip) was similiar in hardware as the new one, old PC (the following were installed) HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=WNT (cant remember the way the ribbons were set up) New PC ATA HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=W2K (One ribbon to HD, One ribbon shared between the std CD-Rom and the Zip, remaining 2 ribbons to the CDR-RW and floppy, It seems that this is causing a performance problem with the zip any suggestion would be much appreciated, thanks a mill Tom |
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Thanks for the link, I'm looking into it right now
"Cheapskate" wrote in message ... I had the same problem with an internal Zip. Turns out it was some conflict with the chipset on the motherboard. Specifically, internal Zip 100 drives will not work with the VIA KT133 / VT82C686B chipset. I believe there is a patch available on the Iomega website - www.iomega.com. Try downloading the latest drivers for your mobo and Zip, it's worth a try. "Tom" wrote in message ... Hi there, My old pc died and I took the internal zip out an placed it into my newer pc but I am having probs with it. When i go to explore the zip contents 'Widows Exploring' crawls and sometimes it hangs on me. This I find weird as the spec for my old pc (which never gave me any probs regarding the zip) was similiar in hardware as the new one, old PC (the following were installed) HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=WNT (cant remember the way the ribbons were set up) New PC ATA HD, CD-ROM, CDR-RW, FLOPPY, OS=W2K (One ribbon to HD, One ribbon shared between the std CD-Rom and the Zip, remaining 2 ribbons to the CDR-RW and floppy, It seems that this is causing a performance problem with the zip any suggestion would be much appreciated, thanks a mill Tom |
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