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Old April 27th 04, 01:55 AM
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"Craig Coope" wrote in message
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"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....

Craig, the reason it says 'no bios' is because there are no devices attached
to the Promise raid controller.

If you have SATA devices attached, it would 'build an array' the first
time,
and thereafter it would detect the attached devices and boot up from
there...

Is the board the NEO 8 with Via 800T chipset?