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mahleumon

07-22-2001, 01:33 PM

I have an old 8gig hard drive that is giving me an Disk I/O error and also when I go into the bios it asks for a password. I tried resetting it, by removing the pins and putting in some passwords that I found on the internet. Didn't work though. Just wondering what you thought. Thanks

jaida

07-22-2001, 02:09 PM

There is a bios password on the computer you have to clear the cmos to get rid of it. To do this open the computer find the cmos jumper move the jumper to the 2-3 position leave it there for about 5 seconds then place it back in the 1-2 postion.

You are getting the disk I/O error because the harddisk isn't installed properly heres a few thing to check.

1) make sure your connections are secure (ie ide cable and power connectors) because they can sometimes be loosed.

2)make sure power is going to the drive. To test this you can put your ear close to the drive.

3) make sure the ide cable isn't backwards. Make sure pin 1 is on the far right of the drive.

One more thing if you found the 1-2, 2-3 confusing here is the explaination. The cmos jumper has 3 pins in normal operation it sits on pins 1 and 2 1-2. To clear the cmos you set it on pins 2 and 3 2-3.

Hope this helps and good luck

mahleumon

07-22-2001, 02:14 PM

I have checked all cables. Power, data, and also slave/master switches. All that is fine. I had a hard time finding my jumpers for the cmos, so I switched all the ones that it could have been. From 1&2 to 2&3, but didn't help. I still kept getting the password in cmos setup. Then I thought maybe it went back to default password since I did that and I looked up some passwords that I thought it could have been since it is an award motherboard. Like Award,ami,setup,bios,reset, etc. but nothing worked. :-(

NDD

07-22-2001, 03:48 PM

Maybe your HD's time has come, and it now ready for reincarnation in form of Seagate 15K RPM UltraSCSI320 ? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
To clear your CMOS password, remove your battery for at least 2 hours, or remove your BIOS chip from it's socket, but do it all <u>carefully</u> !!!

Best Regards ...