BIOS

Operating System not found (but worse than usual)

I work in IT Tech support (Hardware & Networking) so have a fair bit of knowledge and experience but this one has really got me stumped. I got a tower running XP Pro on IDE 0 with DVD RW and on IDE1 I got 2nd data HDD. Both are Maxtor drives. It’s a fairly old machine but serves its purpose...

Post Diagnostic Cards

I would like to know if these cards are any good or just a waist of my time. Due they really help?

Computer does not detect SATA hard drive in BIOS

PLEASE HELP!!! Brand new hard drive 160Gb Samsung SATA. BIOS does not detect it, tried everything. From replacing the "data cables", "power converter plugs" on the power supply, upgrading my BIOS. There is no RAID setting in my BIOS only the option to "enable/disable SATA". The BIOS detect it once...

Need BIOS for Gateway 700X desktop

Hi, I have a Gateway 700X desktop (Pentium 4). It currently cannot recognize hard drive capacity larger than 128GB. The current BIOS limits a 400GB to 128GB. Does anyone know where I can get an up-to-date BIOS for this machine? Gateway does not have a download. My current BIOS version is...

Wake on LAN: No light displays when the computer is in power off state

In BIOS on the Power Management Setup: I have enabled Resume on PME Enabled. Again, in NIC cards' property in the power management section: I have enabled allow this device to wake the computer and only allow management station to wake the computer. But I even don't know why there in blinking light...

Intel Management Engine Interface error

I am using Windows XP (service pack 2), i have a problem in computer management console in Device manager under system device one of my Intel(R) Management Engine Interface is not working properly the error is "This device cannot start. (Code 10)". Because of this i cant update my bios and i am...

Motherboard fails to load

Asus A7N8X2.0 ACPI Bios/ AMD Athlon XP 1250 MHz/ 512 Ram/ XP/ 2 seperate hard drives/ seperate DVD and CD players/ Central cooling fan does not work So I have recently been working on what looks to be about a 6 year old assembled computer. When I first got it, I could not get the thing to boot...

access mother board serial no.

Hello friends, I would like to know how i can access the serial no. of my laptop mother board without opening it.Is it possible to aceess no. using bios.Please help me. As i need to update my bios, it is mandatory to know the serial no.of the motherboard.

BIOS settings causing immediate sleep mode at startup?

My monitor goes to sleep immediately when I turn on the computer not allowing time to start in safe mode or the get to the settings to change the sleep mode, how can I fix this problem?

Latest BIOS for Gateway 700x

Where can I get the latest gateway 700x bios

How can I get my Dell Optiplex to see a USB keyboard DURING boot process? (So I can get to the BIOS.)

I cannot boot up my PC I just purchased. It gets to a screen that says no boot device is available. (This is not a hardware problem, I just need to format the drive.) I have a Windows XP disk and wish to install that onto this computer. Sounds easy to this point right? Well I did not realize when...

How to update BIOS on Gateway 700x

I have downloaded the bios update from gateway. When I copy the expanded files to diskette the auto ex and command com file do not show they were copied. I believe the file are there, they aren’t visible however. When I start the computer it displays a message that the diskette is not a system...

BIOS detects SATA drive but I cannot see it on the Win XP computer

The BIOS detects my SATA drive but I cannot see it in my computer once in Windows XP. What might be the problem?

forgot bios password

i forgot my bios password on my toshiba satellite 135-s4467

look for a bios password

hi every body i have a toshiba protege r200 it was stolen from and when i get it back there is a start up password (bios password) just about 5 seconds after i push the button on i can't acces to anything does anybody have any idea how can i bypass the password i triyed every thing (...

Motherboard BIOS

how to prevent users from changing motherboard bios if they removed board battary, i mean what can i do to prevent bios frem being restored if the battary was remove when sttarting up the pc ? thanks,

Armada 1750 BIOS or CMOS?

I've had an Armada 1750 for years. I love it. I want win 2k installed. I removed Win98se, formatted and setup the Sofpaq diag partition. I turned off ACPI. Win2k wants an updated bios. HP/Compaq is giving me the runaround. How do update the firmware on this Laptop?

How To Flush BIOS

AOA I am using Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop with window vista. Whenever i want to install window xp on this laptop the setup give this message "Their is no HardDisk detected on your system". But when i am install window vista it installed. Now i want to install window xp prfessional on dell vostro 1500....

failure to recognize hard disk over 137gb (500gb)

what all does w2k sp4 do or fix. I installed sp4 and it still doesn't recognize the 500gn drive. Any help would be appreciated