Product

• Lotem™ 800
• Lotem 400

Operating system

Windows 95

Background

When installing a new 20/40 GB hard drive on a Lotem equipped with an older E-box model (P/N 506E1L027), the 1.6 M flat cable causes communication problems.

Requirements

Procedure

• Preparation
• Disconnecting the flat cables and configuring the new hard drive
• Installing the new CD-ROM/Hard Drive cable
• Installing the software and restoring BIOS settings
• Restoring the hard drive with Windows 95 (Image Disk)

Preparation

1. From the PC Controller, open the front door of the Lotem.
2. Manually open the right door.
3. Shut down the PC Controller.
4. Shut down the Lotem.

Disconnecting the flat cables and configuring the new hard drive

1. From the E-box, remove the hard drive tray.
2. Disconnect the two flat cables, and the power cable from the Motherboard.
   Note: There are two flat cables in the E-box: the Floppy Disk cable and the CD-ROM/Hard Drive cable. This procedure replaces the old, longer CD-ROM/Hard Disk cable with the new, shorter one.
3. Remove the four screws that connect the hard drive to the tray.
4. Change the new hard drive's configuration from Slave to Master, as shown below.

Figure 1

Note: By default, the hard drive is factory-configured as Slave.

5. Install the new hard drive on the hard drive tray.

Installing the new CD-ROM/Hard Drive cable

1. Connect the shorter end of the new cable to the hard drive.
   Note: Make sure the side of the cable with the red line is facing the hard drive power connection, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2

2. Connect the middle connector to the CD-ROM, again making sure the side of the cable with the red line is facing the CD-ROM power connection, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3

3. Reconnect the Floppy Disk flat cable. Make sure the side of the cable with the red line is facing the power connection, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

4. Insert the Hard Drive tray into the E-box, but not all the way.
5. Reconnect the power cable to the Motherboard.
6. Route the new CD-ROM/Hard Drive cable underneath the tray; then pull the cable forward in front of the boards and connect it to the CPU, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5

7. Push the tray all the way in, and secure it with the two screws.

Installing the software and restoring BIOS settings

1. Make sure there is no floppy disk in the drive, then power on the machine (if not already on).
2. Before Windows starts, press the Delete key continuously, until the BIOS Setup window appears on the monitor.
3. From Bios/setup/inside utilities/secure cmos, change the secure cmos status from Activated to Disable.
4. Ensure the right boot driver sequence: Floppy, CD-Drive and Hard Disk.
5. From Standard/Date/Time, update the date and time, if necessary.
6. Save your changes and exit the BIOS Setup window.
7. Insert the BIOS diskette (version 1.1 or 1.2) into the floppy disk drive and power on the machine.
   1. Press Alt+Ctrl+Del to reboot, and run the bios diskette. The Bios settings are automatically updated.
8. Remove the Bios diskette, then reboot.
9. Before Windows starts, press the Delete key continuously, until the BIOS Setup window appears on the monitor.
10. Check the following:
    1. From Bios/setup/inside utilities/secure cmos, make sure the secure cmos status has changed back to Activated.
    2. From the Utilities dialog box, double-click the Detect IDE button; then do the following:
       • Click the PIO field.
       • Change the speed of the speed of the hard disk to 0.

       Note: Even though the hard drive is 20/40 GB, the CPU recognizes only 8 GB.

11. From Standard/Date/Time, update the date and time, if necessary
12. Press Esc twice.
13. Save your changes and exit the BIOS Setup window. The E-box reboots automatically and the default configurations are restored.

Restoring the hard drive with Windows 95 (Image Disk)

1. Insert the Startup (EZ Restore) diskette in the floppy disk drive, and the Windows Image CD in the CD-ROM drive.
   Note: Make sure you are installing the correct BIOS and Image versions: BIOS version 1.1 with Image version 1, or BIOS version 1.2 with Image version 2.
2. Press Alt+Ctrl+Del to reboot. After a few moments (or longer), the Windows 95 desktop appears on the monitor.
3. Remove both the floppy (Startup) and Image CD from their respective drives.
4. Insert the Lotem PC Controller disk and reload the software.
5. Restore the machine's registry and database files.
6. Reconfigure the Brisque connection.

Note: For more detailed information regarding hard drive restoration, see the Restore Hard Drive procedure.

Technical contact(s)

Itai Peperovich
See the Escalation page for escalation contacts.

Date submitted

20 Feb 2003