Hard drive isn't recognized
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:34 pm
Hello everyone!
I'm new to this site and it seems like a great place with great people and good information. It was searching Google for my BIOS-ID and ended up here. It is like this that I'm trying to get an old computer I have sitting here accepting this spare 80 GB IDE HDD i have. I had this problem with another computer and limit the drives capacity worked in that case. It actually works with this computer too, just tried it. But if it's possible, I would like to use those 80 Gigabytes instead of limiting the capacity. It gets increasingly harder to find small drives for older computer. You are very lucky to find a 40 GB disk today and 80 is almost gone too. This causes a big problem for us using and refurbishing old computers.
Anyway. I would like to see if there is any way for me to update the BIOS. I have been looking around on this page and to find out what information is required. This computer was build by a small manufacturer in Sweden in 1998 and is since long gone. Probably with the DOT.COM crash. Here is the information I have gathered.
I come from a world where manual update of the BIOS outside of Windows never has been necessary. So I would appreciate any help. I do have floppys available. Oddly enough. Most stores are still selling those ^^
Karl - Sweden
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ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A69KF09)
Award Modular BIOS v4.60PGMA, An Energy Star Ally
Copyright (C) 1984-98. Award Software, Inc.
Version 1.15ME11
Pentium II-MXX CPU at 400MHz
07/03/1998-i440BX-2A69KF09C-00
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I'm new to this site and it seems like a great place with great people and good information. It was searching Google for my BIOS-ID and ended up here. It is like this that I'm trying to get an old computer I have sitting here accepting this spare 80 GB IDE HDD i have. I had this problem with another computer and limit the drives capacity worked in that case. It actually works with this computer too, just tried it. But if it's possible, I would like to use those 80 Gigabytes instead of limiting the capacity. It gets increasingly harder to find small drives for older computer. You are very lucky to find a 40 GB disk today and 80 is almost gone too. This causes a big problem for us using and refurbishing old computers.
Anyway. I would like to see if there is any way for me to update the BIOS. I have been looking around on this page and to find out what information is required. This computer was build by a small manufacturer in Sweden in 1998 and is since long gone. Probably with the DOT.COM crash. Here is the information I have gathered.
I come from a world where manual update of the BIOS outside of Windows never has been necessary. So I would appreciate any help. I do have floppys available. Oddly enough. Most stores are still selling those ^^
Karl - Sweden
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ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A69KF09)
Award Modular BIOS v4.60PGMA, An Energy Star Ally
Copyright (C) 1984-98. Award Software, Inc.
Version 1.15ME11
Pentium II-MXX CPU at 400MHz
07/03/1998-i440BX-2A69KF09C-00
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