G
General Mailbox
Greetings.
I have a home built system given to me. It has:
American Megatrends (AMIBIOS) but I cannot update the bios because it has a
serial number on it that Megatrends says was built in the U.S. but it's not
one of theirs (meaning the motherboard I guess). But getting an update for
the bios was just something I was looking into because of an error that came
up in windows stating about a partition drive letter cannot be recognized.
I changed out the floppy A drive so that error is taken care of. My issue
is that I had a 30GB HDD working on it just a few short times containg the
WinXP OS, enough so just to finish testing the Floppy A and CD/DVD drives. I
removed the IEEE1394 card and replaced it with a USB2.0 card. I wiped the
OS HDD clean to start fresh feeling comfortable all the hardware would work,
but bios suddenly is not showing that there is a local disk. It only shows
the sec master (CDRW) and sec slave (DVDRW). Using only one HDD as local
disk, I tried several times under varying configurations of the HDD jumper
and placement along the ribbon cable. I even changed out the ribbon and
removed the USB2.0 circuit board, but to no avail. I don't know what
changed now. Only other thing I can think of is the battery on the
motherboard. I don't know what symptoms a computer has when the battery
goes bad.
Any suggestions to have bios recognize the local disk? Much appreciated!
B.rgds,
Kevin
I have a home built system given to me. It has:
American Megatrends (AMIBIOS) but I cannot update the bios because it has a
serial number on it that Megatrends says was built in the U.S. but it's not
one of theirs (meaning the motherboard I guess). But getting an update for
the bios was just something I was looking into because of an error that came
up in windows stating about a partition drive letter cannot be recognized.
I changed out the floppy A drive so that error is taken care of. My issue
is that I had a 30GB HDD working on it just a few short times containg the
WinXP OS, enough so just to finish testing the Floppy A and CD/DVD drives. I
removed the IEEE1394 card and replaced it with a USB2.0 card. I wiped the
OS HDD clean to start fresh feeling comfortable all the hardware would work,
but bios suddenly is not showing that there is a local disk. It only shows
the sec master (CDRW) and sec slave (DVDRW). Using only one HDD as local
disk, I tried several times under varying configurations of the HDD jumper
and placement along the ribbon cable. I even changed out the ribbon and
removed the USB2.0 circuit board, but to no avail. I don't know what
changed now. Only other thing I can think of is the battery on the
motherboard. I don't know what symptoms a computer has when the battery
goes bad.
Any suggestions to have bios recognize the local disk? Much appreciated!
B.rgds,
Kevin