Jasper
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| posted on 28/4/09 at 05:39 PM |
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HELP - buggered daughters PC
Trying to fit a new HDD to my daughters PC. It's an oldish Dell. Put the new drive in, went into the BIOS and set it to auto detect new primary
slave drive. In doing this I think I accidentally reset the Diskette Drive option (it doesn't have one of course) and now it will not even let
me into the BIOS, just keeps coming up with 'Diskette Drive 0 seek failure'.
Doesn't matter what I press I can't get it back to the BIOS.
So, what do I do?
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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yellow melos
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| posted on 28/4/09 at 05:42 PM |
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Just unplug the power and take the battery out of the machine.... leave it for 15 mins and put it back in again... will clear the bios back to
factory defaults......
but usually you have to press F1 to continue.. after that it will go in to the bios
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r1_pete
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| posted on 28/4/09 at 06:31 PM |
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The BIOS has a backup battery, so as well as the above you need to disconnect it for a minute or two, its usually a yellow disk battery with two wires
into a minature plug.
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Jasper
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| posted on 28/4/09 at 09:41 PM |
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Thanks chaps - I'll have a go at that in the morning.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 4/5/09 at 09:10 PM |
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There should also be a set of pins marked "CMOS" if you switch the jumper to the other side of the three for about 30 seconds and then put
it back (important!) that should clear whatever the cmos actually is and force the machine to redetect all the drives
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