Okay this is getting on my nerves after I got the bios back and running I installed all of my drives ect. BUT it takes me about five minutes to boot from a floppy it took me 3 hours to try and format the hard drive. I didn't have the patience to wait for setup to work and this my friends is why I am here now. Any info would be very helpfull....
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need help with bios proformance
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I would lean towards the drive being bad. I had a 27 gig maxtor drive that took longer and longer to format every time it was done: first time was an hour or so, but after a few times it took something like 30 hours to format! I gave up on that one.... But it might be worth doing a surface scan, could be bad sectors on the drive are the problem. Be warned that the scan could take a long, long time...
Either way, I would get a new drive.
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Either way, I would get a new drive.
If you're going through Hell...keep going... (Winston Churchill)
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It had way too many bad sectors it didn't help
but I couldn't get on here till today so..... Anyways I built my other new computer. specs are 400 mhz celeron, 16mb nvidia agp video, 20gb maxtor hd (new!!!), 54x cd-rom (new!!!) windows 98.... thanks everyone for your help
but I couldn't get on here till today so..... Anyways I built my other new computer. specs are 400 mhz celeron, 16mb nvidia agp video, 20gb maxtor hd (new!!!), 54x cd-rom (new!!!) windows 98.... thanks everyone for your help
My suggestions
1. Change your RAM sticks into different slots.
2. If that doesn't work - An average hard-drive ribbon cable has 3 slots. 1 goes into the motherboard, one into a primary drive, one into a secondary. If the slot on the top of the ribbon cord is plugged into the hard-drive, plug it into the one below it/vice versa. If that doesn't work - plug the slot that goes into the motherboard into a different slot on the motherboard. IF THAT DOESN'T WORK - Change the ribbon cord from a 40 pin to an 80/ or 80 to 40. And if nothing works - I would say your harddrive is dead.
1. Change your RAM sticks into different slots.
2. If that doesn't work - An average hard-drive ribbon cable has 3 slots. 1 goes into the motherboard, one into a primary drive, one into a secondary. If the slot on the top of the ribbon cord is plugged into the hard-drive, plug it into the one below it/vice versa. If that doesn't work - plug the slot that goes into the motherboard into a different slot on the motherboard. IF THAT DOESN'T WORK - Change the ribbon cord from a 40 pin to an 80/ or 80 to 40. And if nothing works - I would say your harddrive is dead.
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I had no problems getting the hard drive to show up in post or with the way I connected things my hd was shot. If you had been intelligent enough to read the post right before yours you would have known that I already bought a new HD and it is running right next to where I am sitting right now. Another thing I don't think IDE comes in a 80pin
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