No way into the setup?

[Jorge Aldana]

I know its late but did you set the IDE drives to be AUTO, they default to OFF 
(in bios), that has gotten me from time to time.

Jorge

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Barry Allard wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> Flash the system bios.
> Connect an old PS/2 keyboard (in case the USB emulation setting is
> disabled).
> Try again. :)
>
> Are these existing drives or recent upgrades?  Since it is about a 10-yr old
> system, it probably does not support today's large IDE drives.
>
> Barry
>
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> Hi all,
>
> Got a bit of a problem with a Precision 410 that I'm trying to revive.
> My intention is to use the Silicon Image IDE controller in the PC,
> which is what I was doing when I was previously using it, but when I
> boot the system and hit F2 to go into setup, all I can get is a message
> that the system can't find the four drives (primary 0, primary 1, etc).
>
> I have tried hooking four drives onto the MoBo IDE controllers, but
> this has no effect - it doesn't seem to recognise any of the drives,
> and though the system recognises that I've hit F2 and want to get into
> the setup, it still hangs at that error message.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>
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