BIOS drive???

[Tanya]

hello,
ran a generic h/w utility on an ancient 486 pc (w/ a 500 mb hd)
it okayed memory, the hard drive (the only 1 i am aware of that's hooked
up)
HOWEVER it failed: 3 other "drives" each was called a bios drive; hex
82-84 (i think) 10 MB each...
(the system had had a cd-rom, has a floppy drive (1.44 mb) and had had a
windows 98se drive HOWEVER it lost its cmos settings from a burnt out
battery and in the bios there's no reference to any drives other than
the hd and the floppy drive)
i cannot find this type of drive or imagine what this refers to
(the BIOS (AMIBIOS) is 7/25/94)
(this is not my pc)
thanks in advance!

 

[philo]

hello,
ran a generic h/w utility on an ancient 486 pc (w/ a 500 mb hd)
it okayed memory, the hard drive (the only 1 i am aware of that's hooked
up)
HOWEVER it failed: 3 other "drives" each was called a bios drive; hex
82-84 (i think) 10 MB each...
(the system had had a cd-rom, has a floppy drive (1.44 mb) and had had a
windows 98se drive HOWEVER it lost its cmos settings from a burnt out
battery and in the bios there's no reference to any drives other than
the hd and the floppy drive)
i cannot find this type of drive or imagine what this refers to
(the BIOS (AMIBIOS) is 7/25/94)
(this is not my pc)
thanks in advance!

first off...put a new battery in the thing...
then set the drive parameters...they should be marked right on the drive

if the bios has an auto detect feature...that would also be an option

as far as the utility you used...don't worry about those non-existant
drives...there must be some bug in the software

 

[philo]

hi
thanks for replying...



i guess i wasn't *too* clear re: the battery......(which i DID replace ;-)

i'd wanted to convey the fact that although the pc HAD several drives on it in
the past, the BIOS drives couldn't be referring to these since the

battery had died and cleared the CMOS


it did autoDetect the current drive


thanks
sincerely
Tanya

OK...hope the machine works out OK

if not...just post back

 

[Tanya]

hi
thanks for replying...

first off...put a new battery in the thing...
then set the drive parameters...they should be marked right on the drive

i guess i wasn't *too* clear re: the battery......(which i DID replace ;-)

i'd wanted to convey the fact that although the pc HAD several drives on it in

if the bios has an auto detect feature...that would also be an option

it did autoDetect the current drive

as far as the utility you used...don't worry about those non-existant
drives...there must be some bug in the software

thanks
sincerely
Tanya