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5Specify which devices you want t o boot from, and in which order.

■To specify your 3.5-inch, 1.44MB diskette drive, select Floppy.

■To specify the Zip drive, select Floptical if your computer is running

AMI BIOS, or select Iomega Zip if your computer is running Phoenix

BIOS.

6If your BIOS contains the option Removable Devices, set the boot order for

your multiple drives, then press ESC.

7If you removed the 3.5-inch diskette drive and did not replace it, go to

the next step. Otherwise, go to Step10.

8Press the right arrow key to display the Advanced menu, then press ENTER

to open the Peripheral Configuration menu.

9Set Floppy Disk Controller to Disabled, then press ESC.

10 Press the F10 key, then press ENTER.

■If you installed a diskette, CD, or DVD drive, the installation is

complete.

■If you installed a Zip drive, go to “Installing Zip drive software” on

page 30.

■If you installed a Seagate tape drive, go to “Installing Seagate tape drive

software” on page 31.

Contents

Main Page Contents 1 Preparing to Install Your Drive 2 Removing an Existing Drive 3 Installing a New Drive 4 Troubleshooting Page Preparing to Install Y our Drive 1 2 3 4 Preparing your work area To prepare your work area: 1 2 Preventing static electricity discharge Page Page Removing drive software To remove the drive software: 1 2 3 Page Removing the drive To remove the existing drive: 1 2 3 Page Page Page Page Page 14 Identifying connectors CD, DVD, diskette, tape, and Zip drives 15 Flash memory drives Configuring the new IDE drive Master drives Slave drives Setting the IDE jumpers To set the jumpers for an IDE drive: 1 2 3 Configuring the new SCSI drive Termination SCSI IDs Setting the SCSI jumpers To set the jumpers for a SCSI drive: 1 2 3 4 5 Installing a drive To install a drive: 1 2 3 4 Page Page 10 Configuring the BIOS To configure the BIOS: 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 Installing Zip drive software Installing Seagate tape drive software Page Troubleshooting General troubleshooting guidelines 35 CD or DVD drive Your computer does not recognize the CD or D VD drive. The CD or DVD drive makes a buzzing noise. 36 Audio CD does not produce sound. A DVD movie will not play. 37 Diskette drive Your computer cannot access the diskette drive. Your computer cannot access the diskette. To format a diskette: 1 2 3 Your computer does not recognize the diskette drive. To check the diskette drive identification in the BIOS Setup utility: 1 2 3 Page 40 The diskette drive light stays on continuously. To fix the data cable connection: 1 2 3 4 5 6 41 Diskette drive error messages Diskette Drive 0 Failure or Diskette Drive 1 Failure Not ready reading driveA or Not ready reading drive B Invalid drive specification Invalid media type Flash memory drive 43 Cannot copy songs from a Secure Digital memory card to my computer. Zip drive The green busy light on the Zip drive does not turn on. The Zip drive is not assigned a drive letter, or th e Iomega software cannot find the Zip drive. 44 To determine if the operating system is running in 32-bit mode: 1 2 3 45 Tape drive After a period of successful operation, the tape drive appears to fail during a backup or restore. Re-tensioning a backup tape. 46 Cleaning a tape drive. 1 2 3 Your computer does not recognize your new IDE tape drive. 47 Your computer does not recognize your new SCSI tape drive or other SCSI devices: Page A Appendix A: Safety, Regulatory, and Legal Information www.gateway.com Canada Industry Canada (IC) Unintentional emitter per ICES-003 Regulatory compliance statements Laser safety statement California Proposition 65 Warning Appendix A: Safety, Regulatory, and Legal Information www.gateway.com Notices All Rights Reserved Trademark Acknowledgments