would opting to rest settings in bios menu affect my hard drive?

Question

since doing this my comp is saying no hard drive found

Answer 1

The Basic Input/Output System (or BIOS for short) contains basic information your computer needs to start up to a bare minimum. Apart from the clock, settings about what is plugged into the Primary Master/Slave and Secondary Master/Slave IDE cables are stored. This is where information about your hard drive, CD/DVD drive and zip drives are kept.

When you reset your motherboard's BIOS settings, you reset this information too. Most are set to automatically detect what's there and go with it, but older motherboards don't have that feature.

To reset the settings to a better state, start up your computer and press Del, F2 or whatever key you are told to press while it's running through the memory test. This will enter the BIOS screen. From here, find anything to do with hard drives or IDE. Where you go depends on the type of motherboard you have. There is usually an option to auto-detect the drives, and this should be used where possible. If you cannot auto-detect, you must enter the details by hand, which is where an engineer usually gets called. This can be tricky if you don't know what it is.

Pressing Esc should get you back to the main menu where you can save the settings and exit. This hopefully will make your computer work better. Of course, there are other settings you ought to set while you're in the BIOS, too.

Answer 2

yes your bios tells the computer where to look to boot from. is this a new install? make sure the jumper configuration is properly set on the hard drive.

go into your bios and set your hard drive to be the boot device.

unplug any usb drives durring boot up.

Answer 3

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