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I am running XP home on a ABIT BH6 BX board and I see that the ISA/PCI bridge is functioning ok via isapnp.sys driver suppplied by MS. I amd running an old 1542B ISA SCSI card and it works fine.

Check your bios setup. Try turning off PNP OS installed. While your inthere check all the other floppy relate parms.

Have you check to see if the com ports are active via debug.... Start "debug" from a DOS prompt as in the example shown below. C:\> debug [enter] The debug utility will provide a simple "-" as a prompt. At the prompt enter: -d 40:0 b [enter] The command asks the utility to dump (d) 12 bytes (b) of m...

Have you check to see if the com ports are active via debug.... Start "debug" from a DOS prompt as in the example shown below. C:\> debug [enter] The debug utility will provide a simple "-" as a prompt. At the prompt enter: -d 40:0 b [enter] The command asks the utility to dump (d) 12 bytes (b) of m...

There are times when Fdisk can not delete the partition table.... But a small debug script will do the job. The following debug script can be used to clean the master partition table. After running this script, the FDISK program should be used to create partition/partitions. 1. Boot from a MS-DOS ve...

1) Use a eeprom programmer to get a copy of the code or bios flasher to get a copy of the code.

2) Use a hex editor to find the offset/code to change/add and make the modification.

3) Burn a new eeprom, install and test.

What version do you need? I have from 3.20 to 8.27.13.

Not that I know of....

Yes, I sent it a couple of days ago. I will send it again via web mail.

37 gig does not equal 40 gig and there fore you do not have full use of the drive. Also, the fact that you can set it to master and it fails a the eide test tells me something is not right. Check the bios parms to see if you have any options to set LBA. This should allow the use of Init13 extemsions...

What version... I have 5.20 to 8.16a

Email'd 5.20

1) Call Dell back and tell them they are full of it. I use to work their and the tech you talked to doesn't know the answer so he just gave you a bunch of BS. 2) The reason you don't see the bios options is that Dell has covered them up so you can't change them. Plus the bios in a Dell system is alm...

Of course you have tried to reset the cmos (clear it) and set the cmos to the defaults.

Try clearing cmos if you have the option.... or try this proggie http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/sc ... 7&lngWId=7

As Always you can add a PCI EIDE card with onboard bios of all else fails.