Whenever I boot up I get a message saying "BIOS is not installed". The BIOS
*is* installed and seems to work fine and I can boot into Windows XP no
problem at all.

My motherboard is the MSI K8T Neo. I have been getting the message since I
first installed the mobo and I've just flashed the BIOS to update it and I
still get the message.

Any ideas?

"Jack" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Whenever I boot up I get a message saying "BIOS is not installed". The
> BIOS *is* installed and seems to work fine and I can boot into Windows XP
> no problem at all.
>
> My motherboard is the MSI K8T Neo. I have been getting the message since I
> first installed the mobo and I've just flashed the BIOS to update it and I
> still get the message.
>
> Any ideas?

Looking into it further apparently it's because I had a SATA controller
enabled (i.e. the default setting) but no SATA drives attached.

This is correct. A SCSI adapter, or a device that emulates SCSI e.g. SATA and Promise ATA cards, will not install its BIOS in memory if no bootable device is detected.

Jack wrote:
>
> "Jack" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Whenever I boot up I get a message saying "BIOS is not installed". The
> > BIOS *is* installed and seems to work fine and I can boot into Windows XP
> > no problem at all.
> >
> > My motherboard is the MSI K8T Neo. I have been getting the message since I
> > first installed the mobo and I've just flashed the BIOS to update it and I
> > still get the message.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Looking into it further apparently it's because I had a SATA controller
> enabled (i.e. the default setting) but no SATA drives attached.

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.