No Hard drive Detection or Cdrom drive

[elmoes]

I have old P2 350 mmx tekram board BX440 chipset win 98 se wont detect my hard drive or cdrom drive.
It only detects A flopy.I have it on auto in bios but it wont detect my windows 98 se.


I tried a other board pentium 2 board and the bios is finding my both hard drive and cdrom drive.
Help

[spursfan]

Have you tried to flash bios,not for the faint hearted but it might solve your problem.

[elmoes]

Hi there spursfan thanks for your tip.

Can I flash the bios even though I cant boot into win 98, I think i did flash it once long time ago.

I have a 40 gig hardrive which worked on a promise controller card i wonder if that could be the problem. I attached the cable from the controller card to hardrive but it wont work.
Does the controller cable have to go to motherboard also. controller card cable to hard drive to motherboard.??

Im also getting checksum error found the motherboard battery keeps popping out loose. Im going to order new one as ive had for a while.

Like i said i tried this hardrive on a other motherboard with P2 cpu 400 and it picked up hard drive cdrw drive and win 98, so I knows its not my hardware.


can any 1 help

[radj2]

I have the same problem on a five year old p3; I can only get it to boot up by hitting F10, or F8, or delete , can't say it works every time but a couple tries usually works. I start hitting the keys after the display drivers are recognized, also make sure the the drive cable is not damaged a small nick could stop the drive being recognized.


radj2

[glc]

The motherboard bios is limited to a 32gb or smaller drive. You will need the controller card to use a 40gb drive - and the hard drive connects directly to the controller card. You should be using an 80 wire Ultra ATA cable with the hard drive jumpered to Cable Select. The system bios will not detect the drive, but the Promise bios should, the system bios needs to be set to boot to SCSI first. Do not connect any optical drives to the controller card. You need to fix the battery holder or you will have constant issues, the boot order will reset to defaults every time you reboot and all other bios settings will be lost.

[elmoes]

Hi

Thanks for the replies guys.

glc >>once again has given great advice, your a genius, followed your instructions and walahh its working. THANKS HEAPS GLC