I have an older pc here that I'm trying to upgrade the Hard drive on. The problem is, when I power up the pc, it will not recognize the new hard drive, even when I input the HD specs manually, it still says "No fixed disks present" when I type in fdisk. Its giving me fits, and this is the information I have on the BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG 06/09/98-Sis-5598-C-00 #401A0-0108v Award PnP Extension v1.0A
I did have two HD's installed before, both slightly over 2 gigs a piece. I have had it set to detect the HD's automatically, with it set for LBA mode, Normal, etc. Now it wont even recognize those two when I put them back in. Any ideas on what might take care of this problem?
chris
P.S. It also keeps giving me the following message when booting after trying to detect the Primary and Secondary drives: Hard Disk(s) Diagnosis Fail
Posts: 822 | Location: Wytheville, va. USA | Registered: 09-03-02
Ok, I'm putting my face out very far so someone can slap the crap outta me, I found the problem, the IDE ribbon cable was partially unplugged from the mother board! Let me have it! LOL Oh well, live and learn!
chris
Posts: 822 | Location: Wytheville, va. USA | Registered: 09-03-02
hmm, almost forgot this question, anyone know where I can get a BIOS update for this computer, and any other one with the same type of BIOS? I cant seem to find them anywhere?
chris
Posts: 822 | Location: Wytheville, va. USA | Registered: 09-03-02
I copied and pasted your Bios info to the search bar and came up with this page. Maybe there is something there that can send you in the right direction. BIOS
Thanks for trying LVLF, I found most of these with a Google search, but could not find anything that pertained to my particular version. I appreciate the effort though!
chris
Posts: 822 | Location: Wytheville, va. USA | Registered: 09-03-02
