"Satan's Little Sister" wrote in message
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Thus spake Craig Coope:

I have just bought a new PC (A64 3400+) and although it loads winxp fine
when it is first turned on it says "No device found!" and then "BIOS is
not
installed" at the start of the POST...

A typical BIOS package actually a compressed package that contains
several 'component' BIOSes, for such things as RAID controllers,
onboard NICs and audio, video, etc. The unpacking code isn't finding
some device it expects, and thus can't give to that device its BIOS
code.

I have been told an another ng that the no device found thing is probably
because the PC is just using the usual IDE controller (as that is how it is
connected) and not SATA or RAID...hmmmm...

Craig....