Bios Problem 1

[bilko]

A friend of mine has installed a secondhand mobo[gigabyte]with the existing hdd.When it boots up a message--scan bios info error--sorry we do not support this mobo comes up.When going into system it does not show the cd rom or the hard drive--or the controllers--or the mouse- keyboard etc.Thought it may be a problem with the info on the hard drive not being compatible--so used a 98 boot disk to format the hard drive--but could not access the cd rom.Has anybody seen this problem before--and can anyone help please

 

[paulwood]

Unless the bootdisk loads cdrom Dos drivers, you will not be able to it. If you look for a reference to MSCDEX.exe in autoexec.bat, make sure it does have a REM statement, there will also need to be a reference to the driver in config.sys.

Assuming it does load support, was the cdrom on a different IDE channel on the original board, and if so, have you changed the jumper to set it for slave or master, whichever is appropriate?

Hope this helps

 

[bilko]

Thanx Paulwood.Got the problem solved.Stuck in a spare hard drive with o/s.Booted up a treat .Made the original hdd as slave--formatted--loaded o/s --made it the master again[after taking the other hdd out]--and everything is fine