This PC I bought has a no-name mainboard. The hard drives (2) were configured as one primary and one secondary on the same IDE channel.
The secondary HDD was an old 20 GB model; I pulled it without altering anything with the other (primary), and swapped it for a larger 30 GB model. When I tried to boot, the PC went schizo and wouldn't recogize the unaltered primary as bootable!
I messed around with its jumpers and tried the BIOS settings to make the mainboard recognize the primary for what it was - the primary master, to no avail. I think the problem is pretty serious. What about pulling and replacing the CMOS battery to make the mainboard recognize the the primary HDD?
2006-09-05
19:00:15
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Bruce Almighty
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