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jbmx4life
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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 3:04 am
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I found the patched BIOS for this motherboard here and tried it out. The motherboard now recognizes the hard drive, I can load W2K or WinXP to it but when it comes to the part of rebooting so the rest of the OS can load I get the message:
"Error Loading Operating System"
That is all that it says. I tried partitioning out the HDD to smaller partitions to see if that would work but it didn't. At first the BIOS must not have completely flashed right because even a working HDD with OS on it did not work (was previously in the system) it gave the same message. I re-flashed the BIOS and that one works fine now. I would really like to get this 40GB HDD working on this system as my other back-up system died.
Thanks,
J
EDIT: BIOS String:
02/12/1999-i440BX-ALI513-2A69KPNDC-00
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edwin
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:38 am
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What bios did you flash last?
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jbmx4life
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 3:23 pm
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I have the patched BIOS flashed into the motherboard.
I did some more goofin around and testing last night but still couldn't get it to work no matter what I tried. I then tried to hook up the other HDD that was in the system and it won't boot again. I really dunno what is going on.
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cp
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 7:18 pm
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1. enter the bios
2. run ide hdd autodetection
3. select 2/Y for all drives (LBA addressing scheme)
4. quit the bios saving all settings
5. boot windows installation and repartition the drive (writing a new bootsector)
6. done
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jbmx4life
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:01 am
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| cp wrote: | 1. enter the bios
2. run ide hdd autodetection
3. select 2/Y for all drives (LBA addressing scheme)
4. quit the bios saving all settings
5. boot windows installation and repartition the drive (writing a new bootsector)
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Did as you stated and all is well now. I got W2K installed on the system and it is running good. Do you happen to know off hand how much memory this chipset can take? I have found varying opinions about that on the web so I don't know for sure. Thanks!
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Denniss
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