What does this in AMI BIOS mean?

Question

The screen showed:-
Auto-Detecting Pri Master...IDE Hard Disk
Auto-Detecting Pri Slave...Not Detected
Auto-Detecting Sec Master...IDE Hard Disk
Auto-Detecting Sec Slave...ATAPI CDROM
Pri Master : 14.10R11 WDC AC23200L
Ultra DMA Mode-2, S.M.A.R.T. Capable but disabled
Sec Master : 3.19 ST340016A
Ultra DMA Mode-2, S.M.A.R.T. Capable but disabled
Sec Slave : YS0B MATSHITA CR-594

Then it hangs!!!!!!!!!!

I cant boot from drive A nor CDROM. I install router driver, change monitor cos the old 1 was dead. Did some changing of slots. Could all these have affected? Cry..........

Answer 1

Now that you've tried other things, remove all cards that you don't need, see if it will boot.

Then try to swap out your memory with a stick from a different computer, see if it will boot.

Answer 2

The above is just your computer detecting the storage hardware. It shows you have two hard drives and a cdrom attached - a western digital harddrive on cable one as primary, and a seagate as master on the secondary cable with the cdrom connected as a slave.

Unfortunately this is just a common info listing (an inventory) that occurs at boot and provides no information (nefarious or helpful) as to why your computer isn't booting.

Without more detail I would hesitate to offer any advice or diagnosis myself (ie what was the last change if any you made to the system, new hardware, new drivers, will it boot into safe mode, yadda yadda)

Answer 3

Go into the BIOS. Make your CD-Rom the ' First Boot Device '. Insert your Operating System CD and reboot. This will install that Operating system onto the Master Hard Disk drive of your Computer.

If you do a fresh install of the Operating System (above ) without backing up your Data then you will lose it. If you have backed up your data then choose to ' repair ' the install. This will probably install the Operating System over itself, your data should stay intact.

Good Luck.

Answer 4

Same to me! I did everything suggested but still failed!

I swop memory, failed!

I went into the BIOS and make CD-Rom the ' First Boot Device ' and it failed too.

I just somehow felt that the PII is ok but somewhere is wrong and I just dont know how to detect and make it work again. cry.................

Answer 5

Memory problem?

Try this: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp