Fixed - Bios needed a spanking.

[The Stigenator]

I just upgraded a colleuges systemm.. its got a Maxtor 40 GB Diamond Max Plus drive.
THe motherboard is a ASUS P2B - DS RevL 1004

The drive powers up and is spinning.. but its not detected..
I have it on ATA66 cables.. with the CDRW on the same cable. If I put "NONE" in the bios, the cdrw shows up.. after which it hangs..

COuld it be something to do with the oxygen in there.. with teh geforce gts 2.
edit: heading.

 

[Spence]

did you try plugging the ata cable in the other way for the drive or it looks like you have the maxtor drive set to slave and the cd-rw as master, try switching there ends of the ata66 cable and if that doesnt work try booting up without the cdrw

 

[The Stigenator]

I distincly set teh cdrw to slave.. but I am going to unplug the IDE cable from it.. and take out the Oxygen 420.. and give it a shot.

 

[The Stigenator]

found it.. the stupid bios cant take more than 8 GB.. atleast.. when I put the new drive parameters in.. it showed.. 8GB.. instead of 40 Gb.. question is .. could this be the problem?

 

[The Stigenator]

how do I do a flash update?

 

[The Stigenator]

few questions:
1. how do I know.. if I need to use "Aflash.exe" or "flash.exe" even though I am using a Award bios.
2. Do I have to dig into the motherboard to enable flashing?
3. why does it hang when I have the parameteres set - its hanging before going to check scsi drives.

 

[Vincent]

Go to your motherboard manufacturer's website and follow their instructions.

Maxtor's website also has advice about this kind of issue.

 

[The Stigenator]

zee is fixed.. it was the bios.. I read thru asus's site.. documentation was great..
its running good.. now to load that guys copy of W2K.

TGG