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EIDE BIOS recognition
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info:- 5/17/1999 - i440BX - 00000006C - 00 ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Is the BIOS out-of-date, or is there enough power ? 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 PS: This has been posted in windowsme.general - but maybe is better in this group. |
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EIDE BIOS recognition
Problem solved by flashing the BIOS up to 2.59.
Search BIOS upgrades and more for AOpen he http://download.aopen.com.tw/default.aspx "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 ---------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Is the BIOS out-of-date, or is there enough power ? 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 PS: This has been posted in windowsme.general - but maybe is better in this group. |
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