Bios disabled?

I went back to my old computer after a few months on my new one. At that time I
removed only the hard drive. So now, with my new one on the sidelines, I
thought of putting back the hard drive, which I had made a slave on the new. It
was partitioned and thats all. Now, when i tried to boot the system, I get a
message that the Bios is disabled. I went into the bios and could not find any
area where one can enable it..if there is such a place on the Bios. In the
meantime I tried a system disk, got as far as Fdisk and got a message that it
found no fixed disk. I did set it as a master this time. I know there is
nothing wrong with the hd. BTW, I went to another newsgroup for hardware and
all I saw was sex messages and the Osama virus..a total of 8 posts. So I
hesitated in entering this post there. This is for the benefit of those who may
have nothing but criticism for those entering post in the wrong newsgroup. I do
have Win98se.

You say you have the jumper set as master now. Have you connected it with a power
cable, and a data ribbon cable attached to the Primary IDE controller on the
motherboard? Also, have you set the Primary IDE to Auto in the BIOS setup? Have
you then done IDE Autodetection, if that option exists in your BIOS?

What BIOS and version is it?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Anthonage" wrote in message
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I went back to my old computer after a few months on my new one. At that time I
removed only the hard drive. So now, with my new one on the sidelines, I
thought of putting back the hard drive, which I had made a slave on the new. It
was partitioned and thats all. Now, when i tried to boot the system, I get a
message that the Bios is disabled. I went into the bios and could not find any
area where one can enable it..if there is such a place on the Bios. In the
meantime I tried a system disk, got as far as Fdisk and got a message that it
found no fixed disk. I did set it as a master this time. I know there is
nothing wrong with the hd. BTW, I went to another newsgroup for hardware and
all I saw was sex messages and the Osama virus..a total of 8 posts. So I
hesitated in entering this post there. This is for the benefit of those who may
have nothing but criticism for those entering post in the wrong newsgroup. I do
have Win98se.

It's not possible to disable the BIOS. What is the exact (verbatim) message
that appears when the machine is turned on?
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Anthonage" wrote in message
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I went back to my old computer after a few months on my new one. At that
time I
removed only the hard drive. So now, with my new one on the sidelines, I
thought of putting back the hard drive, which I had made a slave on the
new. It
was partitioned and thats all. Now, when i tried to boot the system, I get
a
message that the Bios is disabled. I went into the bios and could not find
any
area where one can enable it..if there is such a place on the Bios. In the
meantime I tried a system disk, got as far as Fdisk and got a message that
it
found no fixed disk. I did set it as a master this time. I know there is
nothing wrong with the hd. BTW, I went to another newsgroup for hardware
and
all I saw was sex messages and the Osama virus..a total of 8 posts. So I
hesitated in entering this post there. This is for the benefit of those
who may
have nothing but criticism for those entering post in the wrong newsgroup.
I do
have Win98se.

You say you have the jumper set as master now. Have you connected it with a
power
cable, and a data ribbon cable attached to the Primary IDE controller on the
motherboard? Also, have you set the Primary IDE to Auto in the BIOS setup?
Have
you then done IDE Autodetection, if that option exists in your BIOS?

Yes to all the above.

What BIOS and version is it?
--

Well, its a sony slimline, so we're talking about a 5 year old computer. This
is what I get at the post. ASUSTEK Award software, inc Rom PCI/isa Bios (
Shachi )

It's not possible to disable the BIOS. What is the exact (verbatim) message
that appears when the machine is turned on?

Exactly that: Bios disabled

It's not possible to disable the BIOS. What is the exact (verbatim) message
that appears when the machine is turned on?

Verbatim: Bios Disabled

Is it SCSI or IDE?
Is the hard drive controller integrated on the motherboard, or a separate controller
card with its own BIOS?
What type of hard drive is it?
Have you recently flashed the BIOS on that computer?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"Anthonage" wrote in message
...
You say you have the jumper set as master now. Have you connected it with a
power
cable, and a data ribbon cable attached to the Primary IDE controller on the
motherboard? Also, have you set the Primary IDE to Auto in the BIOS setup?
Have
you then done IDE Autodetection, if that option exists in your BIOS?

Yes to all the above.

What BIOS and version is it?
--

Well, its a sony slimline, so we're talking about a 5 year old computer. This
is what I get at the post. ASUSTEK Award software, inc Rom PCI/isa Bios (
Shachi )

I have never seen that message. I can think of three possibilities.

The BIOS it refers to is not the motherboard BIOS, but is something like a
SCSI hard disk controller BIOS. In this case the message is probably correct
and can be ignored, unless you want to boot from a SCSI hard drive.

It is an odd way of saying that the BIOS has been password protected, and it
actually means that BIOS access has been disabled.

It's a virus.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Anthonage" wrote in message
...
It's not possible to disable the BIOS. What is the exact (verbatim)
message
that appears when the machine is turned on?

Exactly that: Bios disabled

The BIOS it refers to is not the motherboard BIOS, but is something like a
SCSI hard disk controller BIOS. In this case the message is probably correct
and can be ignored, unless you

You know, I think you hit on something. I do have a controller card installed
that is suppose to give me my total useage of a 40 gig hd. The original Bios is
limited to 32 gigs. I did try to reinstall the software for the controller
card...but something is preventing me in doing so. I keep getting message that
no Fixed hd found. Last time I used this computer, prior to removing the hd and
controller card, it was working just fine..no virus.

Is it SCSI or IDE?

IDE

Is the hard drive controller integrated on the motherboard, or a separate
controller
card with its own BIOS?

Separate controller

What type of hard drive is it?

4 month old Western digital 40gig

Have you recently flashed the BIOS on that computer?
--

Never had