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  • How to safely switch from AHCI to IDE

    Hi, I have a brand new, COREi7 with MSI Mobo PC built and burned in by the pros at iBuyPower. I did not order it with a HD, however, as I wanted to install my own SSD with Windows 7. However, after installing Win7 it seems the boot/startup times are 5-10 minutes, before Mobo even gets to Win7 boot sequence...
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 03-11-2010

  • BIOS Upgrade for MSI mainboard

    Hi, I'm looking for an upgrade for my old computer because I want to use a 40GB drive with it. However, my mainboard doesn't support drives larger than 32GB. I've checked MSI's site for an upgrade but I can't find my mainboard model there. Here are the details about my mainboard:...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 02-22-2010

  • USB Device insertion and removal causes BIOS to beep.

    New problem that I've never seen before. On two completely different PC manufacturers, the same problem has happened. Both are new out of the box, and the only thing common to both, is that a new PCI wireless card was inserted into both( inserted with the power off and power unplugged). What is strange...
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 02-20-2010

  • Friend has lost his BIOS password on Amilo Pi 1556

    A friend has returned from a six month vacation and can't remember or find his BIOS password on his Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pi 1556. he tried removing the CMOS battery overnight, but it still prompted him the next morning when he booted. any ideas ?
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 02-19-2010

  • Another BIOS CHecksum error - All solutions tried :(

    Help me :s, I have the exact same problem as the guy in http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Q_20885296.html#10364151 , He said the problem was due to a "picky" floppy cable, however, i have tried 3 different cables, and 3 different drives (yes, we do have that many computers :p), to no...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 01-19-2010

  • BIOS Hangs on bootup frequently but intermittently

    I thought I solved this yesterday with a clean install of a good image and resitting of my PCI cards and tightening loose mothboard screws - seems not!!! Frequently but intermittently my computer hangs at bootup. Seems to be a BIOS problem as it hangs when it displays the processor chip or RAM test....
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 01-17-2010

  • How flash BIOS on Gigabyte EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6) motherboard?

    I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6) motherboard, and want to update the BIOS using QFlash. I put the BIOS bin file on a FAT32 thumb drive, rebooted into the BIOS, and opened QFlash. When in QFlash, I went to find the file, however it consistently comes back with an error message saying drive not...
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 01-13-2010

  • Need Award bios update!

    Hi!! Need to update by bios. This is the information i have collected: Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 1.5 Program: Unicore Chip Detect v0.72 2000.03.10 BIOS Date: 04/28/99 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG BIOS ID: 04/28/1999-i440ZX-W977EF-2A69KQ1GC-00 BIOS Eval: P6I440ZX/Z5 BIOS V1.3SLR Apr...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 01-04-2010

  • NO BIOS Video output on startup -  sometimes

    I just installed an new 2 Abit VA-10 motherboards into 2 Ahanix cases with 350 Watt PS and an AMD XP AThlon 2000+ CPUs with 256 MB PC 2700. Neither one is right. When I power up sometimes I get no BIOS output to video and the machine seems to hang with the CPU fan going. I can hit the power down button...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 01-02-2010

  • FLASH MY VGA BIOS

    OS:WINDOWS XP PRO FORMAT:NTFS VGA: ATI 8500 128 MB I WANT TO FLASH MY VGA BIOS AND I HAVE: -fdx8500le.rom -8500LE_250-250_0x0003_781 WHAT I HAVE TO DO WITH THIS FILES, THE STEPS TO FLASH THE BIOS
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 12-23-2009
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