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by jbeiter1
Wed Sep 25, 2002 1:53 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 06/25/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5CC-00
Replies: 14
Views: 7350

Finally, got a bios1351 pgm to copy a backup from my system. I've emailed a copy of that backup to you here. Looking forward to getting that hdd installed. Thanks for your help, joe.
by jbeiter1
Wed Sep 18, 2002 7:01 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 06/25/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5CC-00
Replies: 14
Views: 7350

well I tried last night to copy thed bios to floppy sorry to have to report I didn't get one. I did a win98 restart in dos mode, then a:<enter> awd802 /pn backup.bin/sy <enter> util came back and said disk not ready retry (y/n) I retried and it returned to the dos prompt. I tried a couple variations...
by jbeiter1
Tue Sep 17, 2002 2:54 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 06/25/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5CC-00
Replies: 14
Views: 7350

I grabbed AWd802 and Uniflash128 yday. But after reading some of of the notorious adventures useing awd flasher I thougt I'd at least check to make sure neither of these set off alarm bells w/folks here. with that I'll get the backup tonight.( I hope... last night boy scouts, tonight basketball, tom...
by jbeiter1
Mon Sep 16, 2002 10:51 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 06/25/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5CC-00
Replies: 14
Views: 7350

How to copy bios to diskette? I can't recall seeing that type of option is there an option in the setup screen ?
Joe.-
by jbeiter1
Mon Sep 16, 2002 7:50 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 06/25/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5CC-00
Replies: 14
Views: 7350

I think I had pretty much dismissed that cause the date, 16 Sept. 98 is not that far from the June 25 98 date the bios is at and nothing in the tech notes talkes mentions huge hdd handling. Plus I don't like the idea of just flashing the bios to find out if it will work. Do you / anyone know if eith...
by jbeiter1
Mon Sep 16, 2002 3:32 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 80GB: 06/25/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5CC-00
Replies: 14
Views: 7350

80GB: 06/25/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5CC-00

Hi, I've read through a bunch of posts here tying to find a fix for myself with no luck. So I'm posting here hoping you'll have an answer. I have a new maxtor 80g hdd and and older packard bell desktop(1998). its a gvc board,(if the bios agent was correct). and a cyrix m-11 300 processor. I would li...