Flashed BIOS.. now hard drive wont be decteted..

[LordJezo]

Very odd.. the computer I flashed refuses to see the main hard drive with the OS.. but, that hard drive works fine in every other PC I have tried it on, and, on the computer with the flashed BIOS every other device can be seen and detected no matter what order they are plugged in.

But the main harddrive, no matter if its slave or master, primary or secondary.. will not be detected..

Any ideas?

(MB: Asus P5a. HD: WD 60 gigger..

 

[WarCon]

Try clearing CMOS. If that don't work, clear CMOS then flash again (always from floppy). Also make very sure thats its just a P5A and not the -B version or the -VM version as they have different bioses.

Last thing you could try is to flash it back to an older version (even the backup if you made one).

 

[redbeard1]

How is the bios set to detect hard drives. Is it set auto and auto? Does that bios have the detect hard drive selection in the main menu?

The system did see the 60 gig before it was flashed? My guess would have been that it wouldn't see that big of drive.

 

[LordJezo]

Ended up that the "newer" BIOS couldnt deal with hard drives over 32 gigs.

Had to go find a beta bios, not on the Asus website that allowed for compatability with the newer hard drives.