A8V Deluxe - No IDE Devices Instlled Even Though the CDRW ..

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I've just developed a problem where upon boot up I get a message that
the system is scanning for IDE devices. I then get a message that no
IDE devices have been found and that the BIOS is not installed. Even
though the CDRW is installed as master on the first IDE channel and
works fine. I'm using a Seagate SATA Drive and a Lite On CDRW. The PC
is only 3 months old and before this happened I never saw any message,
just a fast boot ( Fastrac ? ) into Windows boot. It works ok but it's
now slow to boot. Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

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> "Gary" <grynwbry@@@@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> I've just developed a problem where upon boot up I get a message that
>> the system is scanning for IDE devices. I then get a message that no
>> IDE devices have been found and that the BIOS is not installed. Even
>> though the CDRW is installed as master on the first IDE channel and
>> works fine. I'm using a Seagate SATA Drive and a Lite On CDRW. The PC
>> is only 3 months old and before this happened I never saw any message,
>> just a fast boot ( Fastrac ? ) into Windows boot. It works ok but it's
>> now slow to boot. Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Gary
>
> The drivers are looking for PATA RAID IDE drivers, not the ones on your
> standard IDE Channels.
> Sounds like you recently installed the Promise RAID Drivers.
>
> Bobby
More to the point, it sounds as if the RAID BIOS has been enabled, and set
as the first boot device. The 'BIOS not installed' message would come from
this, not latter drivers.

Best Wishes