Blank screen

[chrisT]

I have an old(well relatively) Pentium75. Bought a new H-D, and tried to install it as the master, and my BIOS settings won't recognize it. I tried the software they gave me at the store asnd all it says '...No hard-drive is found.' For the record its a Quantum Fireball 4.3.

Now, I'm at the point where the computer starts, but there are no beeps at all, and nothing comes up on the screen.

Can anyone help, please?

Thanks in advance;~)
C

[skywalker[TSG]]

hmm this is odd i have the same HD and the same problem

[BBA]

Maybe your on to something, "Something shocking!"

(not too much pun intended mr power supply!)

BBA

[philipg]

My 2 cents for what its worth.

Alot of bios don't see a certain drive size and up. What you have to do is manually set the hard drive settings in your bios to a low
size and then boot to the software the HD manufacture gave you. Hypothetically this should work according to Western Digital for EZ-bios.

[chrisT]

I actually tried that, to no avail. I have an AMI BIOS. Not sure if its much different from the EZ or not.

Thank you, tho;~)

[Bob-NB]

EZ Bios is a program that Western Digital has that allows the computer to recognize a HD that is bigger than the motherboard bios will allow. It is software, but I'm unsure if it will work on a non-WD HD.

[skywalker[TSG]]

maybe i should change my nick to mr powersupply LOL

[fishboy]

How big is the new HD? I agree that it may be a bios limitation if its an old board. Just a guess

[devjoy]

Chris, If I understand you correctly. When you first installed the HD you had video but now you don't. Did it just quite working or did you take something appart and put it back together and then it would not work? If you don't have video, check to be sure that all cables, the ram and the processor are still plugged in firmly. Have you moved the cables? Could the cable be reversed? Is the red marking on the cable turned so that it mates with pin one? Is the jumper on the HD set for master?