I have went to california for a two weeks and before i went i unplugged my computer. When i returned i plugged it back on and it does not see the harddrive. To make sure my harddrive wasnt dead, i swapped it with the computers orginal seagate 2gig harddrive that had windows 98 and the BIOS still dosent detect it. So then i took out the harddrive from my friends hp pavilion (80 gig maxtor which i know is working) and put it my computer and it still does not see it. What is wrong with it?
Here is my computers details:
Mother Board : Biostar M5ATC
BIOS type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG.
BIOS date: 11/21/97
BIOS ID: 11/21/97-ALi-154x-2A5KIB09C-00
BIOS Sign-On: ATC1121D
Chipset: ALi M1531 rev 179
Help with Biostar M5ATC
-
- BIOS Guru
- Posts: 3153
- Joined: Thu Mar 21, 2002 8:16 pm
- Location: Near Hannover (CEBIT) Germany
- Contact:
Set all IDE ports to autodetect in Bios. Try to connect drive to both Primary and Seconddary controller.
Either something died on your comp or it's a problem with your backup battery causing some strange behaviour.
Either something died on your comp or it's a problem with your backup battery causing some strange behaviour.
-
- The Hardware Archivist
- Posts: 6286
- Joined: Wed Mar 20, 2002 7:11 pm
- Location: Netherlands
- Contact:
you might get lucky and find one on a flea market. there is not a single one listed on ebay at the moment. the shops have long long ago dumped their stock of these boards. It is 9 years old. That is prehistoric in todays terms for computers.
edwin/evasive
Do not assume anything
System error, strike any user to continue...
Do not assume anything
System error, strike any user to continue...
like edwin already stated: those boards are really old! you probably won't get any board that's still AT since all boards are ATX now (since a few years really). you might try getting one on some large online auction..look for something with "ALi Aladdin V" or "ViA MVP3"
-
- The New Guy
- Posts: 1451
- Joined: Fri Mar 29, 2002 10:32 pm
- Location: Pennsylvania, USA
You can also try swapping out the HDD ribbon cable, and verify that the power supply is outputting the correct voltages.
CPU - DFI 586IPVG, K6-2/+ 450 (Cyrix MII 433), i430VX, 128MB EDO.
BIOS patched by BiosMan (Jan Steunebrink).
BIOS patched by BiosMan (Jan Steunebrink).
Okay, i know that this thread stopped about 2 months ago, but now i am sure that it is my power supply. I used a volt meter and checked the output level, and it is putting out too much power.(which also explains how my cd-rw, dvd-rom, cd-rom, and two harddrives blew). Does anyone know where i could get a new (AT format) powersupply? And also, because the power supply was pushing out too much power, is it possibl that my mobo is partially dead too?