80GB: 02/02/2000-ALADDIN5-2A5KKF9BC-00

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
NickS
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Do you have an ISA slot that you could try an ISA FDD controller in?
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siroce
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Yes I have. I'll put a floppy controller from some old 386... when I find it..

I've noticed something else, my graphic card is agp and system recognises it.. Isn't that strange? If there's only the half of the bios in the eeprom, whic contains the boot rom, could this be the problem? Maybe something else except the boot block works and it causes some problems?

Maybe I should leave only the boot block on the eeprom? (I can do that from some intel440 board)
NickS
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The graphic card has its own BIOS, but it means that the chipset must be initialised to the point where the AGP slot works.
Here is a thought; if your Intel mobo can only flash half the Boot ROM, split the image into two with a hex editor. Flash one half with the highest address pin floating and the other half with the highest address pin grounded.
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