Motherboard Upgrade/Boot Problem

[Fairport]

Greetings,

This is my first post, and I am very new to the world of computers. Here's the story:

I had a KR632 Board from GVC/BCM with a 233P2 Processor. I got the Diamond Micronics C400 BX board, for future expansion. I have all the other components from the original, just the new board. When I boot up, it goes through the memory, identifies the master, slave, PCI, ISA, and then reads:

Verifying DMI Pool Data.....

Invalid system disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Nathan]

If this is a new hard drive, you will need to fdisk it, format it, and install the operating system on it.

If this hard drive had an existing operating system on it, then take your boot disk and boot to it. Then type in at the A prompt

sys c:

Let us know what happens.

[socalgal]

duh!

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 05-31-99).]

[MR COMPUTER]

A "blank" hard drive will give this message. I agree. Fdisk and format. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Steve R Jones]

Since the hdd was working before, you must have a problem with ribbon cable. Make sure the red line is in pin one on both ends.

And/or go into the bios and let it auto detect the hdd.

[This message has been edited by Steve R Jones (edited 05-31-99).]

[Fairport]

Thanks for the info. I was playing around with the BIOS and in the HDD Auto detection it comes up with 3 choices for my hard drive. LBA, Large, and Normal. It looks like it autodetects large, and it doesn't work. When I manually make it LBA, it worked! I am now up and running. This may be a foolish question, but what does this LBA refer to?

Thanks,
Phil

[Susan]

LBA is Large Block Addressing, which translates the Cylinder, Head, and Sector info and specs of the drive to the BIOS.

[Bleeding Edge]

Ripped from http://www.whatis.com/nfindex.htm


Logical Block Addressing is a technique that allows a computer to address a hard disk larger than 528 megabytes. A logical block address is a 28-bit value that maps to a specific cylinder-head-sector address on the disk. 28 bits allows sufficient variation to specify addresses on a hard disk up to 8.4 gigabytes in data storage capacity. Logical block addressing is one of the defining features of Enhanced IDE (EIDE), a hard disk interface to the computer bus or data paths

[This message has been edited by Bleeding Edge (edited 05-31-99).]