So, you pulled all drives, changed the IDE cable, hit the power switch, and
then what exactly happened???

P.S. fan?

CPU fan?

Tried the HDD on a different rig just for kicks?

Just curious.  Sounds strange.

David A Abbe
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With the original drive back in, it boots just fine after the attempted
BIOS flash?




>Got an annoying little problem with a 4-5 yr old PC running on an Asus P2L97
>motherboard.
>
>I'm trying to (a): Update the BIOS and (b): Install a new 40G UATA Maxtor
>hard drive.
>
>When I coupled up the new HDD as a slave to the existing 2G drive, the PC
>wouldn't boot, and the BIOS wouldn't autodetect the drive.  Nor would it
>accept a description of the drive as 'Auto', 'None', or any combination of
>cylinders\heads\sectors etc.
>
>Figuring that the BIOS needed upgrading, I downloaded the latest version I
>could find ( a racy November 99 issue), along with a flash program.
>
>But when I attempted to flash the update, I was informed that the EEPROM
>wasn't of the flashable type, so, short of trying to obtain a new BIOS chip,
>I seem to be stuck with the current BIOS.
>
>I thought I might be able to install a BIOS overlay, but I don't see how I
>can get the overlay onto the new drive, if I can't get it to run - kind of a
>Catch22 situation.
>
>Ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Ian Porter
>Computer Guys Inc.
>Arrowtown
>New Zealand
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