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| Thread ID: 65519 | 2006-01-21 01:53:00 | All Greek to Me! | meg_h_nz (6960) | Press F1 |
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| 423336 | 2006-01-24 03:31:00 | Guy’s, I’m wondering if the flashing of BIOS’s shouldn’t be put aside for the moment and the hard disk reformatted properly and the OS reinstalled? I’d be inclined to poke the wayward drive into the good machine as a slave and format it from there. Make sure it showed up correctly then change it back to a master and reinstall it in the troublesome machine and reinstall the OS. What do you think? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 423337 | 2006-01-24 04:24:00 | Guy’s, I’m wondering if the flashing of BIOS’s shouldn’t be put aside for the moment and the hard disk reformatted properly and the OS reinstalled? I’d be inclined to poke the wayward drive into the good machine as a slave and format it from there. Make sure it showed up correctly then change it back to a master and reinstall it in the troublesome machine and reinstall the OS. What do you think? You still have to configure them / a hdd in the BIOS. (And whatever other devices, are in the case) Which obviously, u cant, since u cant see anything in the BIOS. The BIOS has to see it before Windows will. And the state the BIOS is in atm, you would have to figure out how to change the bootdisk in the BIOS. If u do a clean install. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 423338 | 2006-01-24 08:56:00 | similar issue? 66.102.7.104 u/forum-replies-archive.cfm/441438.html |
dbs (8785) | ||
| 423339 | 2006-01-24 19:12:00 | Fair enough Speedy, but seeing we assume the BIOS is reset to its default it will look for a bootable Disk regardless of what order so if the HDD default happens to be Auto, which it very likely will, we should be away. As I understand it, the BIOS was fine prior to the reformat, after which it seems to have gone wrong. The reporting of a 40gig Drive as 2gig Drive rings alarm bells about the state of the drive and the manner it’s formatted. But personally, I lean toward trouble with the Video Card supposing it has one and isn’t Video on board. It’s just that I lean toward eliminating other possibilities before flashing the BIOS in case that too goes wrong. Especially as Meg probably hasn’t flashed a BIOS before and although it’s not difficult it could be fatal if things crash half way through. Whereabouts are you Meg? There may be someone local that could give you a hand? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 423340 | 2006-01-24 22:47:00 | Hi BM. The BIOS was actually going fine after the reformat for the first few times I rebooted. It dosent have a video card just on board graphics. As to location I am in South Otago. |
meg_h_nz (6960) | ||
| 423341 | 2006-01-24 23:55:00 | Ok Meg, I’m a bit far away (Wet and windy Mt Maunganui) to look at it personally but I wonder if you could check a couple of things? I doubt this has a lot to do with the problem but here goes: Can you double-click My Computer, right click your Hard Drive (usually “C”), left click properties and tell us what you get, especially the File System (fat, fat16, fat32, ntfs etc) and size (used & free) Next, go to settings / control panel / double click Keyboard then left click Language. Let’s know what that says. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 423342 | 2006-01-25 00:07:00 | I would either try: Another videocard, and disable the onboard video. If the mobo has PCI or AGP. (It may just have PCI slots). Reflash the BIOS. I doubt changing the language in Windows, will fix the garbage in the BIOS. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 423343 | 2006-02-03 02:02:00 | Hi, Its me again back from the wild blue yonder. Guess what...... I managed to get rid of the "Greek" I am not sure how but for anyone interested I can post what I did and maybe then some one can tell me what happened?? Any way all I have to do now is change the hard drive from FAT to FAT 32 so it will recognise the entire drive size and not just the 2GB it is at present. (I now have the 40GB HD as the slave to my old 8MB) Thanks for all the help. Meg |
meg_h_nz (6960) | ||
| 423344 | 2006-02-03 02:06:00 | I think there'd be interest in what you did, Meg. I'm interested, anyway. That was a really strange problem. :badpc: :thumbs: | Graham L (2) | ||
| 423345 | 2006-02-03 02:43:00 | Ok here goes: I took the old 8MB HD and installed it in the "new" AMD machine (which I had done before, TWICE!) and started it up. The only difference was I used a different plug on the cable? Any way it started up without the Greek and has been running fine ever since. I don’t think it had anything to do with the BIOS after all. I do think it may have been to do with the video drivers as I now and stuck with a 640 X 480 in 16 colours screen and NO amount of updating drivers etc seems to be working. Considering this master HD (the 8MB) was working with the same monitor without any problems (and allowed me much higher resolutions) I am thinking there is a problem with the on board graphics…… So I am now down loading drivers from the Mo Bo web site and hoping that one of them will do the trick. The ideal would be to get a cheap 64MB graphics card for it but it will have to wait. SO now all I have to do is work out how to convert the slave HD (40GB) so the computer recognises the entire drive and not just 2MB. |
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