bios and drive question

[gbear]

hello again all,
I would have tacked this onto my other thread about the keyboard..etc, problems but i thought i should kind of keep the subject relevant to my topic
anyway, i found out from someone else i am getting advice from, why i am getting the floppy failure thing, i did boot this previously with a floppy but since i have removed the drive. this person is telling me that it remembers i had the floppy and now cant find it so this leads me to think how do you tell a bios that you add or remove a drive when i'm thinking it should detect it automatically, but obviously it doesn't because it thinks that floppy is still there, but i have connected a harddrive since that initial boot and i don't think it is "seeing" that either, could this be part of other problems im having, e.g it fails on the floppy so it locks up/freezes or should it still work even when the floppy failure shows up?
if this is the root of all my problems, is there a way to reset the bios and then re-detect everything?

[flanzig1]

If you go into the BIOS/Boot order you should be able to disable the floppy from the boot order.

[TwoRails]

Taking it out of boot order may solve the problem. If not, or while you are in the BIOS, also remove it from what drives the computer has. That's typically in the Main, or first section, where the Date/Time and other drives are.

[gbear]

i have heard something that i never heard before but i'm just starting building a 'puter too. I was told this morning, that he doesn't know why, but basically its a no-no in the computer world to put the hd on ide channel 2. is that why its not working or is this right but not a drive nonworking thing, or is this guy not right?never even crossed my mind when i hooked it up that way, i have the cdrw on ide channel 1 as primary/master, should i put the hd infact on channel 1 and cd on channel 2?

[glc]

It's not mandatory, but the boot hard drive should always be the master on the primary IDE.