Tyan s2390,how to turn off "Ezbios",so will automatically start from hard drive? Fixed!!,Western Digital junk!!

[cavemanmoron]

Hi i just bought this m/board
Tyan s2390,
and updated the bios to the most current,but,that has not helped
i have to hit the "ctrl" button, and then the A button and Then;the enter button,
to get the "C" drive to come on,
waaah what a pain
how to turn off "Ezbios",so will automatically start from hard drive?
Thanks!!

 

[tcsenter]

Do you mean the EZ BIOS overlay utility that you use to get a large capacity HDD to work with an outdated mobo/BIOS?

You have to use the EZ BIOS diskette (program) at boot, disable EZ BIOS, then uninstall it (or just disable it but leave the utility installed). I'm not sure if this will kill your partition or what, it's been a long time since I've worked with one of those overlay utilities.

I'm surprised the hard drive with EZ BIOS on it worked after swapping to a different motherboard. Often they won't boot unless EZ BIOS was installed using that motherboard.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Do you mean the EZ BIOS overlay utility that you use to get a large capacity HDD to work with an outdated mobo/BIOS?

You have to use the EZ BIOS diskette (program) at boot, disable EZ BIOS, then uninstall it (or just disable it but leave the utility installed). I'm not sure if this will kill your partition or what, it's been a long time since I've worked with one of those overlay utilities.

I'm surprised the hard drive with EZ BIOS on it worked after swapping to a different motherboard. Often they won't boot unless EZ BIOS was installed using that motherboard.

hmm that may be it,i went to the site and printed the directions,and , shall try in the morn!!
Thanks!!
oh the hard drive is a 2.1 gb LOL

 

[cavemanmoron]

Hey the EZbios Was the Western Digital "lifesaver" junk;
Not Tyan stuff,wow i brought one of these motherboards back to the local store,because of this
issue..
well i learned something today!!
Thanks Tcsenter
Lee, cavemanmoron

 

[tcsenter]

Yeah, sorry if I didn't make that clear. EZ BIOS is a software utility on floppy that comes with most IDE HDD's and is used to overcome HDD capacity limitations of early motherboard BIOS. Its part of Maxtor's 'Max Blast' and Seagate includes it with 'Disc Wizard' (I think). Every HDD manufacturer ships some version of EZ BIOS, usually based on Ontrack's software. And yes it is junk...unless you really need it then its great.