new bios needed?

[heian]

Hi,

I got two problems with my bios, one is that the harddisk is not recognized
if the 32Gb limit jumper is not installed. Second thing is not booting from cd-rom drive. (replaced cd-rom drive already, not succesfully)
Sometimes the dvd player is not recognized as well.
Master/sleeve jumpters are installed, know how that works.


info about the bios:

Award Modular Bios v4.51PG, An Energy Star Ally

(566SWIQC) Via Apollo MVP3

AMD-K6(tm)-2/450 CPU found

10/08/99 - MVP3-586B - ITE86 - 2A5LEH2BC-00

Award plug and play extention v1.0a

Can the Bios been damaged? (Booting from cd rom was also a problem
with a 8GB hd installed).

Anybody who can give me an idea how to solve this problem?

Many thanks in advance !

heian

[KURIAKI]

Rare BIOS...
Your OEM Sign-On 566SWIQC indicates you have a Shuttle HOT-566, an Intel 430TX based motherboard.
But your BIOS string 2A5LEH2BC indicates you have a Shuttle HOT-591P, a VIA MVP3 based motherboard.
Maybe there are a inscription between slots, something like "591pa000061620"

[heian]

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply

I found the following number on the motherboard:
591PA000012597

There is no manufactor or brand on the board at all.

Hope you can advice me how to go further.

Very Friendly Greetings From The Netherlands,

heian

[Denniss]

http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/de/591p.htm#hot_591p

Compare this board with your board

[heian]

Hi Denniss,

Thanks for your help!

Indeed, this is the motherboard i got, all the components are on the same
spot as in the pic.

Can you please point me to the bios i need to upgrade my pc?
Is upgrading the bios the only thing i can do on the motherboard?

thanks in advance!

[Denniss]

http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/de/downlo ... ot591p.txt
-> Bios version history

At least the 32GB BUG was fixed in one of the older Bios versions. Install the S025 Bios and report what happens with your HDD.

ftp://ftp.shuttle.com/BIOS/591p/591ps025.zip

[heian]

Hi,

As far i can see is the Bios "update" done well.
Windows 98 which was installed on the HD, shows me it is one from
40Gb

The next problem that appears (i noticed already when i got this pc in his original configuration), that it is not booting from the cd-rom drive.

Here some more technical details:

Pri. Master disk: LBA, UDMA 33, 40022Mb
Pri. Slave disk: CDROM, Mode 2

Verifying DMI Pool Data.......
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : Failure

After booting HD and CD-rom are detected, but when it comes to booting
from the drive, failure appears very very short in the screen and then goes on with booting from HD. (looks like the cd-rom has no time to start spinning at all)

Hd = master
cd-rom = sleeve

replaced cd-rom player already, replaced cable already,
but no result. Sure the cd-rom is bootable.

Anybody who got an idea what this could be....... ?

[Denniss]

Try CDROM as secondary master, sometimes it does not work as primary slave. AFAIK some older Bios revisions needed a bootable CDROM as primary master (but I'm not sure of this)

[heian]

Hi,

I noticed that very sometimes it was possible to boot from cd-rom, and
after starting to check the hardware, it hangs.

Just to make sure the cd-rom was not the problem, i replaced it for a third one and now it seems to work fine It looks like i just got two bad cd-rom players.

It was much too late Sunday evening to install XP, have to wait for another free evening to do

I will post here when Xp is installed and the machine is working fine.
Want to keep this machine continue online, for the function as internet phone (Skype, Msn)

[heian]

Hi KURIAKI,
Hi Denniss,

Computer is running fine, everything was installed as usual after the
cd rom was replaced.
Only thing is that it not shut down itselfs after windows is shut off.
Need to do it myself, should be a solution for it, and think i can find it on the web.

Thankyou both very much for your help !

heian

[KachiWachi]

Is there a setting for this in your BIOS?