Bios

[Rannie]

Just wondering if anyone could help me =/
Wonderign how to make it so the BIOS screen comes up and you can set it up etc.

(need to put it so it picks up my floppy drive ;-

 

[Capricorn]

When you turn on your PC either press f8/delete/f2 depending on what your motherboard settings are. Then go down to Advanced Bios Control and set it so that hdd-0 is first, cd-rom second and floppy third.

 

[Rannie]

Ok sorted, now i just need to get my 80gb harddisk to work on windows 98 =( damn BIOS being dated before June 1999 -_-

 

[Capricorn]

You could update your bios. Or update your motherboard.

 

[Rannie]

how can i update my bios/motheboard? is it hardware side?

 

[Capricorn]

Depends on what your Bios is. Bios would be "software" side... more Hardware really but not o_0 whereas updating your motherboard is hardware side and tricky to do if you're not sure what you are doing.

If you tell me what your Bios is, I may be able to help you.

 

[Rannie]

Found Windows 98 running
Found AMI BIOS 0409
BIOS date: 04/09/99 (month/day/year)
State of RTC battery: Full
ROM BASIC: Not implemented

 

[Rannie]

here a pic of chipset

 

[Capricorn]

Go into your Bios and at the top of the screen, tell me what it says. It should say something like BIOS Award or Dual BIOS or similar.

 

[GriffinHeart]

is your pc a pII? cause if it is....you prolly can't make a 80Gb HD working on him =S

oh and if you want to upgrade your BIOS just go to the url of you mb maker and there should be a link to BIOS upgrades....then u just have to run it in DOS or something.....ha...and the nice part of this is if something goes rong during the process (fail the light,etc) you losse you pc well at least the mb cause BIOS (Basic input output sistem) does the primary conection betewen the soft and hardware.

so fun isn't it? :tp: :tp:

next lesson will be in 3 days :good: :good:

 

[Rannie]

Its Pentium III and the bios seem to be AMIBIOS o.o??



btw how you find out what motherboard you got??

 

[GriffinHeart]

well see the box were it camed or open your pc and look on the chips for something =s

 

[Rannie]

omg ^^; you really should read through the whole of the english part of the manual, it made it out thaty i didnt need to read that part -.-
oh well 80gb fun ^^