P3B-F question

[Patrick]

Progress report...

I flashed the BIOS on my CUBX board with version 1008. I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that the BIOS flash was successful (I think). I no longer get an error message about the BIOS update data being incorrect during boot up. I'm happy about that.

The bad news is now my Cd-rom and Cd-burner are no longer recognized. This I'm not so happy about. They are set up as master and slave on the secondary IDE connectors and before the BIOS flash they were recognized correctly and listed under Device Manager. In the BIOS setup I've tried both Auto and Cd-rom in the main menu, but it makes no difference. Is there something I'm forgetting to do here?

[DJ]

Check to see if the secondary IDE port is enabled in the bios.

DJ

[Dr Mordrid]

Right. He may also have to enter the BIOS and manually detect the problem devices.

Dr. Mordrid

[Patrick]

DJ, thanks for the suggestion, but that's something I've checked. I had set the Onboard PCI IDE Enable to Both. The PCI Bus Master IDE Controller is loaded along with the Primary and Secondary IDE controllers, so I don't know what's going on. All I can tell is that neither the Cd-rom nor the Cd-burner is being recognized in the BIOS or by Win98 at all. Could this be something as annoying as a bug in the beta 1008 BIOS, or is there something simple here I'm just overlooking?

[Patrick]

Doc, what is the trick to manually detecting these devices? When I first booted up after flashing the BIOS, I had both the Secondary Master and Secondary Slave set to None because this was how I had it set for these drives before the flash. I've now tried every choice since then but it makes no difference. Suggestions?

[DJ]

Maybe you should try a hard drive on that channel and see if it works.

DJ

[Patrick]

Yes, I was afraid that swapping stuff around would eventually be mentioned. I've got to leave this for a few hours now (duty calls), but I'll be back at it later.

News at eleven...

[Dr Mordrid]

NO trick to it, it's a feature of the BIOS.

Normally it's set to autodetect devices, but you can enter a menu where they can be manually set up as well. Sometimes this has to be done when autodetect chokes.

These selections are on the MAIN page of Setup under Primarmary and Secondary master/slave. Changing them from AUTO brings up the manual setups.

Dr. Mordrid.

[Patrick]

Ummm.... well, I found the problem.

Just prior to flashing the BIOS on the motherboard, I had been messing about inside the case rearranging a few things. I discovered tonight that I had neglected to plug the secondary IDE cable back into the connector on the motherboard. No wonder the drives on that cable weren't being recognized! Gotta look for the simple things first, gotta look for the simple things first...

Thanks to everyone for their help. Ok Rob, you can now have your thread back.

[DJ]

Thats exactly why I suggested swapping things around. I figured if I just said check your cables it wouldn't go down too well, too simple! But we all get caught with these things every so often.

DJ