ide devices not installed in bios

[rdlacy]

while re-installing win95, my system rebooted to a message of
" load a bootable source". I checked the bios and primary & secondary
master & slave are list as not installed. When I checked the bios, it
is set to automatically detect the hdd & cdrom. I tried reseting the
ide devices, but only the floppy drive is installed. I also tried to
manually set the hard drive in the bios with the same result.
I checked all cables and even checked voltage of power suppy.
This happen on a gateway 2000 p133 w/64mb of memory. windows 95 would
only start in safe mode, so that is why a re-install of windows was
attempted. The install was going okay until the system restarted a
few time like a normal installation. The last time was when I received
the error. I moved the hard drive to another system and it works
okay as a second drive. I can read the data on it and was able to do
a backup. But I am unable to see it on my gateway computer. I changed
the Motherboard battery and reset the bios. Could the bios have been
corrupted only for the ide settings, but work like normal.
If seems like my ide controller is not working. Is there any way to
reset it or can I use a pci ide card? When I boot all that comes up
on my screen is keyboard, mouse, and floppy detected. This computer
has beem running for over 4 years and no hardware changes were made.
I saw the same problem on another computer within the last 2 weeks.
No ide devices detected. I tried both channels and different ide
cables with the same result.
Any ideas? roger

 

[Mulga]

I would agree that probably your IDE controller has had it, you should have no problem running a PCI controller card Help us to help you, please post back and tell us if this helped.

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[antew]

What about the motherboard itself. I mean is it dirty or does it have too much dust. Cleaning helps sometimes. Take out the whole motherboard and try to clean the controller itself and screw holes of the motherboard. Use a blower to clean the controller and a dust paper to clean the screw holes and use the dust paper carefully. I had a similar experience with an old dell computer. It wouldn't even start. I cleaned the motherboard and it was okay. You never know. It wouldn't hurt to try

 

[rdlacy]

I will trying cleaning the motherboard. I was so surprised to hear of someone
else having the same problem within a few weeks. And I have heard of other
people have problems with one of the ide channels, but not both channels at the
same time. This computer wants to start, but without a floppy it keeps giving
a message of "insert bootable media". Thats why the first thing I thought it of
was a bad hard drive. thanks Roger

 

[pudda]

Check Gateway's site for controller drivers for your specific machine. Have run into certain Gateway2000 systems that needed them.

 

[Marcs41]

In the BIOS - advanced or something, where the onboard devices are specified, are you sure the IDE controllers are enabled? If the solution is here, let us know it was helpful so others can benefit from it as too

 

[rdlacy]

have checked bios and and ide devices are enabled. Looked at gateways website
and could not located any drivers. Are these drivers for bios or windows. Bios
ide drivers are the ones I'm looking for. thanks roger

 

[rdlacy]

Have rechecked the bios.
Under advanced
periperal configuration

Primary pci ide interface is auto
Secondary pci ide interface is auto

Primary ide status is disabled
Secondary ide status is disabled.

And I am unable to locate a way to enable them