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| Thread ID: 65954 | 2006-02-06 01:31:00 | Old Bios doesnt see drives | Mirddes (10) | Press F1 |
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| 427562 | 2006-02-06 01:31:00 | at first it was just the optical drives, and while trying to get them to work everything else stopped working. eeach drive is tiny, like 800MB , 2000MB, 4000MB, and the optical drives are your run of the mill 52x readers. in the past the optical drives have always worked perfectly, but now they dont, and ive tried 3 diferent drives dso far and the bios doesnt detect them. img133.imageshack.us |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427563 | 2006-02-06 01:37:00 | So, how many hard drives / optical drives are in the system?? Are the 800MB , 2000MB, 4000MB all on one hdd (partitioned), or separate hard drives (3 of them)? If that pic is what you're seeing now, the primary and secondary masters/slaves shouldnt be on None. Put them on AUTO. Click on enter, and go into the primary secondary master/slave settings. And then save the BIOS settings. And if it doesnt work (it still shows None, after u save the settings), replace the battery, and reconfigure the BIOS settings. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 427564 | 2006-02-06 01:44:00 | 3 seperate drives, this isnt in the bios this is when its posts, in teh bious i set them to auto which is why ive now got a problem =( replace the battery you say? wouldnt load defaults do pretty much the same thing? |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427565 | 2006-02-06 01:49:00 | Its either the battery is nearly dead, or you've connected the ide cables the wrong way round, / back to front, on the hdds/cd's whatever . Or you havent connected the power to all the ide devices in the system . When u put them on AUTO in the BIOS, did it show the brand/model of the hdd's/burners, whatever? If it doesnt, its one of the above (wrong way round, or no power is going to them) . So, the BIOS can detect them . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 427566 | 2006-02-06 01:49:00 | GAR what a bitchy place to put a cmos battery | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427567 | 2006-02-06 01:50:00 | **** im an idiot forgot to plug the power into them =( |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427568 | 2006-02-06 01:54:00 | **** im an idiot forgot to plug the power into them =( lol , well that would help. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 427569 | 2006-02-06 01:57:00 | woooot, all my problems have been solved! well not all of them, now its stuck on post, Found CDROM : IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 52XS |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427570 | 2006-02-06 02:04:00 | Check the jumper on the cd . Make sure its on either slave or master, not cable select . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 427571 | 2006-02-06 02:08:00 | oh ok, thats the problem then , both optical drives are on CS | Mirddes (10) | ||
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