a motherboard with dip switches is old enough to not work on larger hard drives unless a limit jumper is set on the hard drive to limit how much of the drive the old computer can see. There's a lot of videos and pages on that particular model at google. Check the manual to see if there's a limit on hard drive size.
Hello,
I have an old Packard Bell Legend 402CD that just got a new-used motherboard. It boots to the bios screen just fine, but as soon as it detects the hard drive and floppy drive, it gets stuck and says "please wait" and never continues booting. I have tried to boot off an MS-DOS boot floppy and it was just stuck on this screen. This motherboard has these DIP switches that I think are supposed to be adjusted, but I don't know for sure. If anybody has any information on the issue I am having, or information on these DIP switches, I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thank you,
Tanner

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