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I have TWO Dell Poweredge 840 Server Boxes I inherited from another company. They are basically non functional. The owners want Server 2003 taken off and Win7 put on.

I did not get very far. The CDROM will not recognize ANY BOOTABLE disks. I tried Win7 install discs, XP install discs and Vista install discs. The BIOS shows all drives as UNRECOGNIZED. I can get into BIOS but it wont show any options for identifying ...

As far as I read expresscard port is just one PCI express slot with removable capabilities.
So I take one 2x sata expresscard based on SIL3132, offcourse was just a simple card,just SIL3132 controller.
Search in my junkyard for a flash and found one of 256k solder it to PCB and program with SIL BIOS
Here I did a little mistake,SIL BIOS was 128K and my flash chip was 256K so that bios was not ...

I hope this is the place to put this. I recently flashed my bios with what I thought was the right one. Guess I was wrong. Computer was working fine with no problems, then after the flash my computer now locks up at the first screen which is the oem screen where you access the bios or boot sequence. I unplugged everything and plug everything back in one at a time to find my problem ...

Hello Wim's

I am new to BIOS issues!

As well as a more modern machine I have an ancient Locland 400MHz Pentium II on which I want to use a Seagate 80GB hdd as a second hdd, mainly as a backup. The bios will recognise the drive if it is jumpered to 32GB. Can I use all of the drive?

Several older threads on Wim's mention BIOS strings very similar to the one above. It ...

I had to replace my motherboard, so I bought an old one off eBay that was similar to mine. Now my hard drives aren't recognized. I have two Hitachi 80GB drives. The bios id is 12-18-1998-i440BX-PII-3100-010C-00. Apparently it's an Amptron, which seems to be out of business. I've searched but can't find an updated bios. If anyone has a clue how to track down a Bios upgrade, I'd appreciate it.

I've managed to build a custom pci option rom for my Dell inspiron 9400 to switch ICH7 controler from compatible to sata ahci mode.
PCI registers looks ok but at boot time bios report my hdd as is was detected in legacy mode and now controller is switched to ahci so all programs can't access my hdd.
But if I boot into linux (from usb stick) I can see and get access to my hdd ...

I cant get my hard drive to boot, although it is detected in bios??

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I have a ECS K7S5A v3.1 Mainboard, and I am trying to add a boot option for my VIA VT6421A IO card. I have MMTOOL, and my latest bios rom, however MMTool will not let me open the ROM. I get an error message. Could it be that MMTool does not work on 64bit computers? (I am trying to do the editing on a different PC) Also, I am trying to add 6421V431.rom to ...

This is not exactly a "drive not recognized" problem, mods feel free to move post if you deem appropriate.
Mobo is a PCChips M863G. Here's the BIOS data, from BIOSAgent plus:

BIOS Type: AMI
BIOS Date: May 18th 2005
BIOS ID: 62-0100-001131-00101111-051805-SIS741-M863GV50
BIOS OEM: Release 05/18/2005 - 080010
Chipset: SiS 741 rev 3
SuperIO: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 3 at port 002E
Manufacturer: ECS
Motherboard: M863

Recently I bought a new HD, a WD 500 ...

Hi Guys,

I need to mod the drive table in an Award Bios to add support for a new CF Solid State Drive that I am currently experimenting with. The drive spec sheets only gives the usual disk CHS parameters. However, to add a drive in award bios one needs to provide some other unfamiliar parameter values in the drive table. Can someone explain, what the following parameters are and how to calculate them:

1- ...