Bios not installed?? what?

[ericiscool]

The rundown:

I have a custom built with 3.2 p4, 1 gig ddr dual channel ram, asus motherboard, 120 gig hard drive, nvidia geforce 4 128 MB, and an Asus P4c800 Delux Edition mobo. with Windows Xp Pro service pack 2 installed.

I recently reformatted, and changed hard drives, and system was having some issues with a bad hard drive from maxtor. so now that i have new ones in and everythign is working, my boot tells me:

Scanning IDE drives........No drive attached to Fasttrak Controller
Bios not installed

this is slowing down my start up, and i dont know what is causing this i can press F2 and start up in bios and i can change bios settings and everything, so i mean obviously they are installed. whats the prollem? and how should i go about fixing this?

 

[halfadder]

No clue.

But the first thing I thought of when you mentioned "bios not installed" was those funky Compaq systems that had a software based bios. Just to play with the bio settings required the user to feed the machine some floppies. And that was as recent as the Pentium II era. *shudder*

 

[ericiscool]

well i have played with the bios, and i cant seem to figure anything out. i mean there really isnt anything to change that i know of. im runnen a p4 tho, and definitially not a compaq

 

[ericiscool]

well my issue has nothign to do with RAID but here is what i found:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/archive/index.php/t-10139.html

 

[ericiscool]

do you think that im in the same category of this issue really doenst matter you can ignore it?

 

[Traire]

Originally posted by: ericiscool
Scanning IDE drives........No drive attached to Fasttrak Controller
Bios not installed

Sure its says BIOS, and not drive(s)?

If it is BIOS, then it might be reffering to the Fasttrack controller? Is it an add-on card or a controller built into the MB? If its onboard, you might look in the mobo BIOS and see if you can disable the controler (un-used SATA conroller maybe?).

 

[DyslexicHobo]

It used to say the exact same thing for mine. I just turned off the Promise controller and it completely bypassed that at startup.

 

[imverygifted]

reset cmos

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: DyslexicHobo
It used to say the exact same thing for mine. I just turned off the Promise controller and it completely bypassed that at startup.

^^ correct answer The controller isn't supposed to install its BIOS when it doesn't have any drives hooked up. Normal & expected.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: DyslexicHobo
It used to say the exact same thing for mine. I just turned off the Promise controller and it completely bypassed that at startup.

^^ correct answer The controller isn't supposed to install its BIOS when it doesn't have any drives hooked up. Normal & expected.

I totally agree.

 

[Regs]

Yeah, if you don't have anything connected to the promise controller like a SATA drive, just turn it off in the BIOS under Boot Set up or Peripherals.

 

[Tekniqal]

Im having the same issues, Im not a Computer Genius so ill explain as best as i can.
I Blew out my Mobo so i got a new one,MSI Neo something.

Computer worked Find except one error at start up

I noticed at start up it says :
Device not found
Bios Not Installed...

...More issues:
im haveing HD issues due to Partition Magic.

I want to reformat my computer now and Clean Install WinXp

Went to Bios screen Changed Boot Order from CD Floppy to HD
.. it skips stright to HD.. ??? Wont boot from CD.
--------------------------------
Im assuming my HD is screwed for now,,(Unless i get some tip in reviving it)

So I Bought a new HD...

Still want to install XP

.Same" Bios not installed " Issue and wont boot from CD.?
HELP ill try to explain furthur if its needed.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: DyslexicHobo
It used to say the exact same thing for mine. I just turned off the Promise controller and it completely bypassed that at startup.

^^ correct answer The controller isn't supposed to install its BIOS when it doesn't have any drives hooked up. Normal & expected.

Yep. Adaptec SCSI controllers too, or just about most any add-on storage controller with its own BIOS that supported booting from and access from DOS. But they do tend to give heart-stopping error messages to the unwary, don't they?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: DyslexicHobo
It used to say the exact same thing for mine. I just turned off the Promise controller and it completely bypassed that at startup.

^^ correct answer The controller isn't supposed to install its BIOS when it doesn't have any drives hooked up. Normal & expected.

Yep. Adaptec SCSI controllers too, or just about most any add-on storage controller with its own BIOS that supported booting from and access from DOS. But they do tend to give heart-stopping error messages to the unwary, don't they?

Yep.

- M4H

 

[Tekniqal]

ok than.. i got that error message solved...

my new harddrive however holds 250gb.
its a Maxtor.

how would i go about installing windows on to it?
my computer cant find the HD.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Tekniqal
ok than.. i got that error message solved...

my new harddrive however holds 250gb.
its a Maxtor.

how would i go about installing windows on to it?
my computer cant find the HD.

Is it Serial ATA or IDE-based?

 

[Tekniqal]

serial ata

 

[Jeff7]

Press F6 at the beginning of the Windows setup, when it says "Press F6 to install third-party drivers". It'll then need a floppy disk containing drivers for the hard drive controller. The manufacturer of the controller will have drivers at their website; download ones for WinXP, and decompress them onto a floppy disk.