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Old April 24th 06, 01:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default IDE BIOS woes

I am having a real problem trying to connect-up extra IDE
disks to a second tower-system I have just obtained.

Both systems are P3-450 running WinME (256 RAM each) with a
PrimaryMaster IDE installed and working on each machine.

I have 2 x 40Gb IDE Drives (Seagate & W.Digital) that I
would like to use in the new tower - both were formatted &
partitioned on the older tower as Fat32 slaves with the
'Large' request when opening FDisk.

Both these drives work fine in the old tower, but will not
show in BIOS or otherwise on the new tower, whether using
IDE-1 or 2 and with or without the PrimaryMaster attached.
I cannot get to FDisk them on the new machine, as it doesn't
even see them at the POST stage of Boot-up.

The Old-Tower (running a Chaintech 6BTM Mobo with 350W PSU)
PrimaryMaster IDE drive will work in the new-tower BIOS.

__________________________________

The new-tower is running an AOpen AX6BC Mobo with 230W PSU.
The POST screen mentions:-
Award Modular BIOS v4.60 PGMA.
2.36T May.17.1999

Bottom-left of POST screen gives the following info:-
5/17/1999 - i440BX - 00000006C - 00
______________________________________


I hope this message is not overwhelming for those in the
know but I have spent days on this and got nowhere, any
ideas you have would be appreciated.

Thanks
John


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Old April 24th 06, 12:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default IDE BIOS woes

It sounds like an 80 wire cable issue, you might be using different
cables in the machines. The jumper settings are different on 40 wire
and 80 wire cables. Try using the cable where you know the drives to be
working in the other machine and see what happens. Either that or you
forgot to plug the power supply to the drive.

John

John Smith wrote:

I am having a real problem trying to connect-up extra IDE
disks to a second tower-system I have just obtained.

Both systems are P3-450 running WinME (256 RAM each) with a
PrimaryMaster IDE installed and working on each machine.

I have 2 x 40Gb IDE Drives (Seagate & W.Digital) that I
would like to use in the new tower - both were formatted &
partitioned on the older tower as Fat32 slaves with the
'Large' request when opening FDisk.

Both these drives work fine in the old tower, but will not
show in BIOS or otherwise on the new tower, whether using
IDE-1 or 2 and with or without the PrimaryMaster attached.
I cannot get to FDisk them on the new machine, as it doesn't
even see them at the POST stage of Boot-up.

The Old-Tower (running a Chaintech 6BTM Mobo with 350W PSU)
PrimaryMaster IDE drive will work in the new-tower BIOS.

__________________________________

The new-tower is running an AOpen AX6BC Mobo with 230W PSU.
The POST screen mentions:-
Award Modular BIOS v4.60 PGMA.
2.36T May.17.1999

Bottom-left of POST screen gives the following info:-
5/17/1999 - i440BX - 00000006C - 00
______________________________________


I hope this message is not overwhelming for those in the
know but I have spent days on this and got nowhere, any
ideas you have would be appreciated.

Thanks
John



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Old April 24th 06, 07:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default IDE BIOS woes

Thanks for the suggestions.
Tried them but still no joy.
So I went for the real excitement, and flashed the BIOS from
2.36T up to 2.59 which I got from searching here
http://download.aopen.com.tw/default.aspx

Surprise, surprise - the problem is solved and BIOS picks-up
the IDE drives like that.
These long-term noob CPU struggles that eventually work are
more relief than the best sex.




"John Smith" wrote in message
...
I am having a real problem trying to connect-up extra IDE
disks to a second tower-system I have just obtained.

Both systems are P3-450 running WinME (256 RAM each) with

a
PrimaryMaster IDE installed and working on each machine.

I have 2 x 40Gb IDE Drives (Seagate & W.Digital) that I
would like to use in the new tower - both were formatted &
partitioned on the older tower as Fat32 slaves with the
'Large' request when opening FDisk.

Both these drives work fine in the old tower, but will not
show in BIOS or otherwise on the new tower, whether using
IDE-1 or 2 and with or without the PrimaryMaster attached.
I cannot get to FDisk them on the new machine, as it

doesn't
even see them at the POST stage of Boot-up.

The Old-Tower (running a Chaintech 6BTM Mobo with 350W

PSU)
PrimaryMaster IDE drive will work in the new-tower BIOS.

__________________________________

The new-tower is running an AOpen AX6BC Mobo with 230W

PSU.
The POST screen mentions:-
Award Modular BIOS v4.60 PGMA.
2.36T May.17.1999

Bottom-left of POST screen gives the following info:-
5/17/1999 - i440BX - 00000006C - 00
______________________________________


I hope this message is not overwhelming for those in the
know but I have spent days on this and got nowhere, any
ideas you have would be appreciated.

Thanks
John




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Old April 24th 06, 08:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default IDE BIOS woes

I saw that somewhere, after I posted, that someone else with the same
board had similar a problem that was fixed with a a BIOS flashing. I
would have thought that a BIOS dated 1999 would have been able to read
drives larger than 32GB but I guess not all can. I don't know what you
call "best sex" but if flashing a BIOS is better than that you better do
more experimenting... ;-)

John

John Smith wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions.
Tried them but still no joy.
So I went for the real excitement, and flashed the BIOS from
2.36T up to 2.59 which I got from searching here
http://download.aopen.com.tw/default.aspx

Surprise, surprise - the problem is solved and BIOS picks-up
the IDE drives like that.
These long-term noob CPU struggles that eventually work are
more relief than the best sex.




"John Smith" wrote in message
...

I am having a real problem trying to connect-up extra IDE
disks to a second tower-system I have just obtained.

Both systems are P3-450 running WinME (256 RAM each) with


a

PrimaryMaster IDE installed and working on each machine.

I have 2 x 40Gb IDE Drives (Seagate & W.Digital) that I
would like to use in the new tower - both were formatted &
partitioned on the older tower as Fat32 slaves with the
'Large' request when opening FDisk.

Both these drives work fine in the old tower, but will not
show in BIOS or otherwise on the new tower, whether using
IDE-1 or 2 and with or without the PrimaryMaster attached.
I cannot get to FDisk them on the new machine, as it


doesn't

even see them at the POST stage of Boot-up.

The Old-Tower (running a Chaintech 6BTM Mobo with 350W


PSU)

PrimaryMaster IDE drive will work in the new-tower BIOS.

__________________________________

The new-tower is running an AOpen AX6BC Mobo with 230W


PSU.

The POST screen mentions:-
Award Modular BIOS v4.60 PGMA.
2.36T May.17.1999

Bottom-left of POST screen gives the following info:-
5/17/1999 - i440BX - 00000006C - 00
______________________________________


I hope this message is not overwhelming for those in the
know but I have spent days on this and got nowhere, any
ideas you have would be appreciated.

Thanks
John






 




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