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EZ-bios problems

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Marty

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I just got a free computer, and I thought I would install win2K on it. I fdisked the drives. Now, however, the computer won't boot from a floppy. It goes into the post screen, and checks memory and so forth, but hangs after that. I hear it reading the floppy, but it does nothing.

The computer was running EZ-bios or something, I think thats a bios stored on the HDD? I guess I wiped it out. Is there any way I can restore it?

Its an HP Vectra XM 5/100 Series 3. Its only a p100, and certainly not my main computer, so there's no major rush. I'd just like to get it working.

Marty
 

I'm sorry but I don't know how to help you.

I gather you never got far enough to find out, but I believe you need to have at least a 166 MHz Pentium-class PC for Win 2K, and at least 32 MB of RAM, preferably at least 64 MB.

I believe EZ-BIOS is part of Western Digital's Data Lifeguard HDD installation and drive management utility program package, which comes on a floppy disk or can be downloaded from their website. I think the EZ-BIOS utility is automatically used (or almost automatically used) when configuring a HDD with DLG if your PC's BIOS cannot recognize the full size of the drive, which might be the case if you have an old PC and a newer HDD. Perhaps with a copy of the DLG program from WD you can uninstall the EZ-BIOS or use the DLG to configure the HDD. I believe that at least one of your HDD's has to be a WD for DLG to run.

Then again your problem could be something completely different.
 
There's 2 settings in the main MB Bios I'd pay attention to.
1. Seek floppy on boot (or something similar)
2. Boot sequence. Set it to A,C,scusi (or something that begins with a: )
Look around in the Bios see if something else is wrong. I had a HP Vektra 166 that was very picky about hard drive settings in the bios. You couldn't leave it set to auto and remove or add drives when ever you wanted to. you had to enable or disable each drive each time you changed the hardware.
Make sure you have a known good boot floppy. Use it to boot up another computer. It's not good enough to know it worked last week.
Do you know for sure that your floppy drive is working? What about trading floppys with your better computer if you're not sure. and don't reverse the floppy cable when you do it. What have you been working on inside the computer. anything?
 
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