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by jamin
Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:42 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: 04/07/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KA1JC
Replies: 10
Views: 6085

*// denniss you are exactly right ... so what does it mean? (excuse my ignorance!) *// ajzchips Cheers, tryin' that as we speak ... as for the hair, thanks for the advice, but I thought Echinacea was the new aloe vera? (little joke - my country has just gone through the try annual government electio...
by jamin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 6:03 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: 04/07/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KA1JC
Replies: 10
Views: 6085

Sorry to bug you again ... After fighting with Windows 2000 for an hour, I gave up trying to make a boot disk that would actually work, and booted in safe mode with command prompt support (effectively the same as booting off floppy into DOS). Once there, I followed all instructions (a:\awdflash bx6_...
by jamin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 4:23 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: 04/07/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KA1JC
Replies: 10
Views: 6085

IGNORE ABOVE!!! s**t that was quick! Thanks again!
by jamin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 4:22 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: 04/07/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KA1JC
Replies: 10
Views: 6085

Wow! Thanks for the speedy response! I forget that when its 2:30 am here (New Zealand) its gonna be about 2:30pm there! (GMT+12) Any way, I followed you instructions, got the bios file, but am apprehensive as to what I do now ... I know that nothing will happen without a prompt, so I run the file. I...
by jamin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 3:11 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: 04/07/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KA1JC
Replies: 10
Views: 6085

40GB: 04/07/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KA1JC

Hi there, I have no idea what I am doing, but I want to update my BIOS ... I have a new Maxtor 40GB HDD that wont detect with my current BIOS. The details of my board, chipset and BIOS are :: BIOS Date: 04/07/99 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG BIOS ID: 04/07/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KA1JC BIOS Eva...