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Am using poly 386-40/wi95.while rebooting it failed to recognize the drives.when i press f1 for setup then standard CMOs setup/i realize harddisk =not installed/flopy=not installed/when i press lef or righ arrow to select it won't select and am having a message/
FIXED TYPE=01....46,USERDEFINED TYPE=47,FOR TYPE 47 ENTER:CYLN,HEAD,WPCOM,LZONE,SEC,
(CWPCOM IS 0 FOR ALL,65535,ALL)
So hope somebody will help me
azizmak, I think I have seen CMOS like that, possibly a Phoenix? It may not have an auto-detect option for the fixed drives so you may have to open up the case and look at the hard drive, hopefully it will have a chart on it with specs for cyls/heads/sectors etc for you to manually enter into the CMOS setup.
I am a bit worried that it is not detecting the floppy in CMOS though.
As I just asked Sweetpea, can you confirm what BIOS your PC uses?
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Am gonna check it now,in addition is not able to detect the floppy drive also.
(the BIOS is AMI BIOS 2.0 PLS HELP.
Well i just opened the hard disck and there is no any chart,instead i found some jumpers,in addition while trying to setup the standard CMOS then the system will stop responding then i have to turn it off by pressing power button,and i have to wait for some hours before having the video.pls help
No use opening a new thread, I have practically the same problem. On a Packard Hell 600 MoBo, Pent 100mhz, Phoenix BIOS 4.04. My new HD wants me to set Hard Disk Type to: User Defined 1023x16x63, but there are no such options in SETUP, and my only large drive option is whether I want DOS or 'other' to control it. Are these values accessible form DOS?
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Junker,
Are you saying you see no option for hard drive setup, or no "user defined type" in setup? If the later is there just a type 47 option?
DrDMJ, I don't see either of the latter options in setup.
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yes there is no option for hard drive setup and floppy setup.and the system will stop responding prio the end of setup
Junker,
What's the real size of that new hard drive of yours?
azizmak,
On that hard drive, on the lable on it, what does it say the make/brand and model is?
And are you saying that you system hangs before you can exit setup, or that there is no option at all to setup the hard drive (and floppy for that matter)?
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My hard drive is maxtor model 7120AT/.HDA-22A/.PLBA-70A/.UNIQUE-30A.and the capacity is around 2MB if am not mistaking, that is what is wreting on the hard disck.yes the system hang up before i exit setup,and there is no option for the hard disck and floppy setup.pls help
Sory the size of the hard disck is 124MB and wi95 is installed on it.
Ok, it looks like that drives needs to be set up for 1024 cylinders, 14 heads, and 17 sectors. But I am at a loss about the bios hard drive setup for your machine. In your first post you mentioned a bunch of messages where you were being given Types of drives to enter. That is the the setup. Where were those seen?
PLS now it getting better,i found that my hard disk is D instead of c/and floppy is B istead of A/ so now am having options for the floppy and the hard disk.but the hard disk is having upto 7 options,so i don't know which one to choose,so i want to give you the details of my system so you help me setup the hard disk CMOS/.(poly386-40,wi95 AMI BIOS 2.00/.....and the cappacity of the hard disk is 124 mb,and the details on the hard disk is MAXTOR MODEL:7120AT.. HDA 22A... PLBA 70A ...UNIQUE 30A,AND In addition the hard drive has no auto detect,but is having up to 7 options.so pls help me set the hard drive CMOS.
For now we won't worry about correcting the floppy drive showing as b. Not critical.
As for hard drive, as I said in my previous post. The recommended setup parameters for that drive are: 1024 cylinders (CYLN), 14 heads (HEAD), and 17 sectors SEC). In your original (first) post you showed an option for User Defined Type 47. That is what you want. That will allow you to manually enter the numbers I gave above. For a WPCOM use 0, for LZONE use 0. Save the settings, then exit.
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DrMDJ, Junker here...My new HD is a WD100 EIDE- 10 Gig
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Junker,
If you have no type 47, or User Defined option available to you in bios hd setup, then you may have to resort to using Ez-bios (I hate to say that). Go here and following the directions under "EIDE Drives Greater than 2.1 GB", starting at step 2.
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DrMDJ, Went there, didn't find EZbios, got referred to their Data Lifeguard system, dld'd the tools. I'm going to try that. If it doesn't work this time I'll be back with a new post "packard HELL" I think I'm gonna go price a new MoBo, but- stubborn me - I'd still like to whip this.
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Smurf, nice try, but mine's a Phoenix BIOS, not AMI....Back tomorrow.
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Now i have figuer out the seting of my hard disck,this is how i did it/i remove the hard disck to another pc then from there i go trough standard setup/so that is how i get it.CYLIN 936 /HEAD 16 /UPCOM 0 /SEC 17
SIZE 130.
But my another problem is that if i reboot the system there is no video on the monitor but there is a beep conferming the system is in service.but there is no problem with the monitor.pls help me to get the video back and it seems like it couldn't found the key board.although some times it do happen but after i leave the system for sometime i get it back but this time it taking too long.