Hi Karen,
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:21:31 +0400 , karen lewellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> hi all:
> well at ong last i got someone oer here with eyes who could look
> at what my bios really says.
> a actually, one of the chapters you missed, was my running a
> program that is supposed to capture the bios data and save it to
> a text file for review. while i'm sure this is a good program,
> it seems to have mis reported some of my data.
What kind of data does it seem to mis-report?
> below is the hard disk utility report for my drive, and what i
> hope is the mother board information. it has been suggested that
> a bios upgrade would be the answer, and such are availeable from
> american megatrends site. if you can give them the board maker
> that is.
> also, as it does at least look as if the bios sees my 2 g hard
> drive, would i still use an overlay program so as to insure that
> all of the drive can be used? if so, where can i find that
> utility?
> or, am i better off just partitioning the drive? i will say
> that my sighted friend knew next to noghing about computers, so
> just wrote down what she saw.
> opinions anyone?
> thanks,
> karen l
> (c) American Megatrends Inc.
> 40-0100-006291-00101111-060692-CONTAQ6-H
> Hard Disk Utility
> Hard Disk C: Type: 47 = User type- Cyln 4095; Head 16;
> WPcom 65535; Lzone 4095; Sect 63; Size (MB) 2016
Your BIOS "sees" your entire 2 gig HD. Do you know if the info
on the cylinders, number of heads, and the number of sectors
has been set up properly for your drive? If not, this can
cause bad sectors. You will need to look up the data on your
drive. To find specs on more than 1500 hard drives, go here:
http://www.pc-disk.de/pcdisk.htm
To learn more about your BIOS see the AMIBIOS Survival Guide.
Find it here: http://adfa.oz.au/Hardware/BIOS/AMIBIOS.htm
The Survival Guide will give info on all the identifying
numbers for your BIOS.
Good luck!
Sam Heywood
> Hard Disk D: Type: Not Installed
> Mother Board
> AMBIOS
> American Megatrend
> 486DX ISA BIOS
> AA9365566
> (c)1993
> Extra Information & Serial Numbers on Mother Board:
> SIS
> 85C206
> 9335
> PDDC470
> CONTAQ
> 82C596
> 4LO5F2816
> 9339NA
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