> I don't follow why you get a 'successfully installed bios'?
> Who or what is
> *installing* a bios? Have you a scsi card playing in here?
Well, my first mistake was having the hard drive as the slave on the primary
IDE with the CDROM as the master (I was too lazy to change the setting and
didn't have a second IDE cable). With that configuration it gave me no hard
drive detected (except in BIOS setup) and then a "BIOS Failed To Install"
message. What I know about BIOS could fill the library of congress, so I
thought this might be important.
> "primary master hard disk fail" is strictly a hardware /
> motherboard issue,
> It is NOT bootware related. You have some sort of hardware
> conflict with this
> 'new' drive. Eg two drives are masters, or some such. Check
> your drive
> selections CS / MA / SL on each drive that's on the same
> cable. You have an
> old sblaster card with it's ide set to the wrong address, you
> have a udma66
> controller in addition to motherboard, etc etc. This is
> hardware conflict.
Hardware:
New box
Abit VL7 Motherboard (on board sound) (Award BIOS)
Celeron 600MHz Processor
256MB SDRAM
AGP Video Card (32MB RAM)
PCI 10BT Ethernet card (3Com 905??)
Adaptec SCSI card (older)
ISA 56K Modem
WDC 10GB Hard Drive IDE1 Master
48X CDROM IDE2 Master
Crystal Scan 17 Monitor
Standard 104 Keyboard
Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel
Iomega Zip Drive (on SCSI bus)
In addition, I have two SCSI hard drives (neither with an MBR -- that disk
died) and a scanner that are not plugged in to power at this point (I want
the system working first).
The video card, modem and the hard drive are new. However, the modem was a
swap for a US Robotics that was there and didn't work. The video card works
fine (hey, I can read the messages and get a full desktop when I do get
booted).
Both the HD and CDROM are selected as primaries on their IDE controller by
their pins, and as AUTO in the CMOS for primacy. Both are listed in the
CMOS as AUTO for detection, and are accurately detected.
Does this help?
Tom
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