
Said friend was trying to reload his OS from the recovery disk and the PC crashed. When rebooted, it just requests "bootable media". I can load a floppy disk to boot DOS, but no CDROM or hard drive. The CMOS settings show the IDE interfaces both disabled. The BIOS options for IDE interfaces are all set to automatic. I cannot re-enable the IDE interfaces.
NEC doesn't provide any legacy hardware info or updates. All I can find out about this BIOS and motherboard are here:
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003
BIOS Date: 02/03/97
BIOS Type: American Megatrends licensed to Intel
BIOS ID: BIOS Version 1.00.01.DK0Z
Flash: Intel DK0Z motherboard
Chipset: Intel Triton 430HX rev 3
Superio: NSC 306 rev 3 found at port 2Eh
CPU Type: Pentium
CPU Speed: 512 Mhz
CPU Max: 512 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: No
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
Memory Installed: 64 MB
Memory Maximum: 192 MB