Q: I have a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor on an Intel 845 MB of CFCs. I have a 80GB and a 160GB HDD and the 160 is the primary slave. Everything was fine until I flashed BIOS with the latest Intel. After that my motherboard does not detect the 160GB HDD at all. Any ideas?
Best Answer: ouch. if it's a bad flash. i guarantee u it's the motherboard. the bios is done but don't look to buy new 1 yet. their's a ways of restoring it. just google BIOS restor or something similar. but i don't remember if you have to do that before or if u can do it after. i think it's befor because u have to make a backup of it on a floppy. i think u might need a new mobo and don't worry it's nont ur hard drive
Re:Hi all,
Solved the problem by swapping the 2 drives and now both are recognized. This is what the Intel site said to do if there is hdd recognition problems after a BIOS flash for some other boards and it worked for this board too. By the way both were ide drives.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Are both hard drives Pata or did the one that dissapear happen to be Sata?
If the one that dissapeared is a Sata then you might have a new setting in your new Bios to set in order to recognize Sata drives.
M@rc
Either that or there are two versions of the board, one with SATA and one without (assuming it's a SATA drive in question) and you flashed the non-SATA version by mistake.
Re:Are both hard drives Pata or did the one that dissapear happen to be Sata?
If the one that dissapeared is a Sata then you might have a new setting in your new Bios to set in order to recognize Sata drives.
M@rc
Re:I just looked at the Intel site for your board. I see that they don't have a list of BIOS files as most manufacturers do.
So, did you flash it to the file that is listed there, P17?
Did you follow the directions in regards to which method you used, either the Express BIOS update, or the Iflash BIOS update.
Which method did you use?
Re:Sorry for my ignorance but how do I get my old BIOS or even know what version it was?
Re:Flash it again, or flash it back to the version you were running before.
BIOS revisions occasionally break things while fixing others. Especially if it's a very new release. Intel stuff is usually pretty well implemented, however. I'd just flash it back.
Re:Make sure its plugged in
go back to older bios.
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