Hello all,
i need a little help
i have a Gigabyte BX2000/ V1.1 MotherBoard with an AWARD Bios 4.51PG.
My HDD is an Fujitsu MPG3204AT ( 20GB)- by autdetect it has found the HDD correctly- but it dosen´t boot.
so i hope anybody can help me.
and sorry for my bad english
20GB: Gigabyte BX2000
f9 is 01/14/2002-i440BX-8671-GABX2K00C-00 so that is relatively recent.
Are drive type and mode set to "auto" in the CMOS setup ?
Are they set the same way in the other PCs ?
Do they all report the drive as LBA mode on the configuration report screen (the one after the memory test) ?
Do they all report the drive as being the same size ?
At what point in the boot process does it hang ?
Are drive type and mode set to "auto" in the CMOS setup ?
Are they set the same way in the other PCs ?
Do they all report the drive as LBA mode on the configuration report screen (the one after the memory test) ?
Do they all report the drive as being the same size ?
At what point in the boot process does it hang ?
hi,
f9 is installed
Drive Type Mode - auto
yes is the same way as other sytems
by starting- detecting Fujitsu......
theb wait for awhile
you see the Setup window and there he write "LRG,Mode-0,20497"
but if you go to setup Drive-Settings you see LBA
the other systems show:
detecting Fujitsu.....
Setup Window- LBA, UDMA, 20497
it is possible to use a other system an make a Low-Level format
and use the HDD after LLF in my system???
f9 is installed
Drive Type Mode - auto
yes is the same way as other sytems
by starting- detecting Fujitsu......
theb wait for awhile
you see the Setup window and there he write "LRG,Mode-0,20497"
but if you go to setup Drive-Settings you see LBA
the other systems show:
detecting Fujitsu.....
Setup Window- LBA, UDMA, 20497
it is possible to use a other system an make a Low-Level format
and use the HDD after LLF in my system???
It looks like there is a difference in the sector translation if your machine thinks it is Large and the others think it is LBA.Ralf wrote:you see the Setup window and there he write "LRG,Mode-0,20497"
but if you go to setup Drive-Settings you see LBA
the other systems show:
detecting Fujitsu.....
Setup Window- LBA, UDMA, 20497
it is possible to use a other system an make a Low-Level format
and use the HDD after LLF in my system???
Using the CMOS low-level format utility may be dangerous on older IDE drives; if you wish to "low level format" always use the HDD manufacturer's utility.
To use it on your machine try the following on your machine:
- using a bootable diskette, use the command FDISK /MBR to remove the existing partition information
- create new partitions
- format them.
You can get a self-extracting bootable W98 install image from http://www.bootdisk.com