I can't get the BIOS to recognize CD ROM or HDD, tried multiple drives. FDISK says 'no fixed disk present'. It's an older PC, but this is strange.
I was in FDISK, deleted the primary partition, created a new partition, rebooted, and WHAMMO.
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I can't get the BIOS to recognize CD ROM or HDD, tried multiple drives. FDISK says 'no fixed disk present'. It's an older PC, but this is strange.
I was in FDISK, deleted the primary partition, created a new partition, rebooted, and WHAMMO.
Weird, how are your bios settings?
auto detect working?
Auto detect worked before the fiasco... I manually configure the drive and on reboot it goes back to 'NONE'.
how old is the motherboard?
maybe one of the caps dried out.. is the bios battery ok?
The PC was purchased in 98. The BIOS is keeping the date and time..
does the HDD work in another rig?
did you try clearing the CMOS?
How about the FDD controller does it still work?
and maybe a bios update?
Yes, tried several HDD's anyway.Quote:
Originally posted by Wurm
does the HDD work in another rig?
did you try clearing the CMOS?
How about the FDD controller does it still work?
and maybe a bios update?
Yes, no go.
Yes it works fine.
Not worth it..
I think the motherboard finally gets to meet mr. Sledgehammer.
I agree :p
can you melt a mobo? or maybe boil it?
I've seen this a couple times, one of them only having one channel stop working, the other, both. In one case it was a P166 that was 3-4 years old. The was a 2-3 year old AMD based system. In both situations I ended up replacing the mobo.
yeah i read an article like a week back that talked about how capacitator manufactuerers were going afdter counterfeiters using a bad forumla for the mixture and shoddy craftsmanship that leaked out the goo. maybe u got a bad mobo, but since urs lasted almost 5 years, i dunno, maybe it did jst break down. everything eventually does.
looks like Entropy finally got ya Boogs
I had a similar experience with my mobo not recognizing an Acer cdrw that I replaced my dvd drive with. I thought that my ide channel was busted, tried pnp in the bios, no cd-rom recognized. Then I remembered reading somewhere that I needed to upgrade my firmware to a later version. Try that. I've since taken out the cdrw and put the dvd-rom back in. Computer recognises it no problem. Must be outdated firmware or something. For the hdd, try a floppy drive utility.