jarrettjones
11-23-1999, 12:33 AM
Here is my problem. I have an old unix server computer that I cleared off the disks to put win98 on(I know, stick w/ unix, but the computer is not for me). Some numbers are.
Bios; ACR89E00-M02-950308-R01-G0 I ran a bios utility and this is what it said I have;
Acer Bios Version V2.0
Acer Bios Revision R01-G0
Acer Bios Release Date 03-8-95
Acer Bios Model ID ACR89
Acer Bios Serial Number ACR89E00-M02-950308-R01-G0
2 SCSI Hard Drives; CFP1080S (Conner 1gig each)
Digital Processing Technologies(DPT) PM2122(EISA-to-SCSI) SCSI Adapter card plugged into motherboard. A 50 pin ribbon goes from the motherboard to the DPT controller then to each of the hard drives. After the acer bios runs, this flashes up;
DPT SCSI BIOS V003.C3
DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES
COPYRIGHT 1990-1995
Adaptec AIC-7870P chip on the motherboard(disabled in the bios)
The CD-RW I am trying to install is a Memorex 2224 CDRW (IDE). Also tried a regular Us-Drives (IDE) CD-ROM. I am plugging them into the primary Ide on the motherboard(no secondary). I have the jumper set to master.
I initially loaded win95 from diskettes, then was going to load win98 from a upgrade cd. When I plugged the cdrom in, I got errors when it went through the bios (it also took much longer to go through the bios, approx 1min.). They were; "Fixed disk 0 auto detection failed, Auto Detection failed, Equipment configuration error, Enter Setup or press F1 to continue" I pressed F1 to boot. Prior to plugging in the cd-rom the drives said "none" when it displayed the bios when it was booting. With the Memorex CD-RW the fixed disk 0 reads "40mb" and fixed disk 1 reads "none". With the US-Drives both fixed disks 0 & 1 read "none". Once Win95 booted, it still did not find either drive, so I did add new hardware and it found a standard ide hard disk controller and either drive that I had plugged in at the time. So I adjusted some settings in the bios. I turned the "AUTO" detect for the fixed disk drives to "none". It should be at "none" since they are SCSI drives, right??? With these settings at "none", the system goes through the bios much quicker, but when I load windows I have no IDE hard drive controller or a cd-rom. No matter what I do. As soon as I go back to the "auto" setting, windows recognizes them. Each time I try to boot with the "auto" setting, the time the bios starts, to the time it leaves the bios and goes to windows boot it never the same. It may range any where from 45sec. to 5min.! Sometimes I may have to press F1 to boot, and other times it won't even give me that message. I also tried placeing C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:idecd000 in the autoexec.bat and device c:\aoatapi.sys /d:idecd000 in the config.sys. That would work just fine if and only if the drives were set to "auto" in the bios. Here is another trial I did; I unplugged the SCSI drives, and DPT controller. Hooked a ide hard drive to the primary ide on the motherboard as master and hooked the cd-rw in line with that as slave. It worked great!! Except prior to it booting windows it says I need to run the EISA configuration utility at the DOS prompt since I have an error. If I have to I will run the system this way, but that is a last resort since I must buy a new ide hard drive. If I do it like this, how do i found out what EISA config util imust use? Here is all my Bios information;
Basic System Configuration
Page 1
Date xxxx
Time xxxx
Diskette Drive A 1.44 MB 3.5-inch
Diskette Drive B NONE
Fixed Disk 0 (0mb) AUTO
Fixed Disk 1 (0mb) AUTO
(Grayed out info)
Base Memory 640kb
Extended Memory 31744kb
Total Memory 32384kb
Math Coprocessor Installed
Video Display VGA/EGA
Baud Rate 9600 BPS
Parity None
Stop Bits 1 bits
Data Length 8 bits
IDE Fixed Disk Block Mode Disabled
Large Hard Disk Capacity Disabled
Advanced PIO Mode Disabled
Num Lock After Boot Enabled
Memory Test Enabled
Auto Configuration Mode Disabled
Fast Boot Mode Disabled
(grayed out info)
E0000h-FFFFFh (System Bios) Enabled
C0000h-C7FFFh (Video Bios) Enabled
C8000h-CFFFFh Disabled
D0000h-D7FFFh Disabled
D8000h-DFFFFh Disabled
Internal Cache(CPU Cache) Enabled
External Cache Enabled
Cache Scheme Write Block
System Memory Parity Enabled
Memory at 15mb-16mb Reserved for System Use
E0000h-FFFFFh (System Bios) Cacheable
C0000h-C7FFFh (Video Bios) Cacheable
L2 Cache Hit Timing for CPU Cycles Slow
L2 Cache Hit Timing for CPU Cycles Slow
PCI To Main Memory Write Buffer Disabled
CAS Precharge Time Normal
RAS Precharge Time Normal
DRAM Read Cycle CAS Low Time Normal
CPU To Memory Posted Write Disabled
EDC Write Page Hit Lead Off Wait State Normal
Single Bit Error Generate NMI Enabled
PCI Slot Number 1
Function Number of Device 0
Device Function Disabled
Bus Master Disabled
IRQ Level for INTA Pin --
IRQ Level for INTB Pin --
IRQ Level for INTC Pin --
IRQ Level for INTD Pin --
On Board SCSI AIC-7870 Disabled
(grayed out info)
Boot Device Disabled
IRQ Level for INTA Pin --
VGA Palette Snoop Disabled
Diskette Drive Normal
Fixed Disk Drive Normal
System Boot Device Drive A Then C
Serial Port 1 Base Address 3F8h
Serial Port 2 Base Address 2F8h
Parallel Port Base Address 378h
Operation Mode Standard Parallel Port(SPP)
EPP Version Selection 1.7
Setup Password None
Power On Password None
Ok my questions. How can I make it go through the bios much quicker without having to press F1, but have windows still find the cd-rom? I realize this is about a ten page paper, but I don't know what info may be needed. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
[This message has been edited by jarrettjones (edited 11-23-1999).]
Bios; ACR89E00-M02-950308-R01-G0 I ran a bios utility and this is what it said I have;
Acer Bios Version V2.0
Acer Bios Revision R01-G0
Acer Bios Release Date 03-8-95
Acer Bios Model ID ACR89
Acer Bios Serial Number ACR89E00-M02-950308-R01-G0
2 SCSI Hard Drives; CFP1080S (Conner 1gig each)
Digital Processing Technologies(DPT) PM2122(EISA-to-SCSI) SCSI Adapter card plugged into motherboard. A 50 pin ribbon goes from the motherboard to the DPT controller then to each of the hard drives. After the acer bios runs, this flashes up;
DPT SCSI BIOS V003.C3
DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES
COPYRIGHT 1990-1995
Adaptec AIC-7870P chip on the motherboard(disabled in the bios)
The CD-RW I am trying to install is a Memorex 2224 CDRW (IDE). Also tried a regular Us-Drives (IDE) CD-ROM. I am plugging them into the primary Ide on the motherboard(no secondary). I have the jumper set to master.
I initially loaded win95 from diskettes, then was going to load win98 from a upgrade cd. When I plugged the cdrom in, I got errors when it went through the bios (it also took much longer to go through the bios, approx 1min.). They were; "Fixed disk 0 auto detection failed, Auto Detection failed, Equipment configuration error, Enter Setup or press F1 to continue" I pressed F1 to boot. Prior to plugging in the cd-rom the drives said "none" when it displayed the bios when it was booting. With the Memorex CD-RW the fixed disk 0 reads "40mb" and fixed disk 1 reads "none". With the US-Drives both fixed disks 0 & 1 read "none". Once Win95 booted, it still did not find either drive, so I did add new hardware and it found a standard ide hard disk controller and either drive that I had plugged in at the time. So I adjusted some settings in the bios. I turned the "AUTO" detect for the fixed disk drives to "none". It should be at "none" since they are SCSI drives, right??? With these settings at "none", the system goes through the bios much quicker, but when I load windows I have no IDE hard drive controller or a cd-rom. No matter what I do. As soon as I go back to the "auto" setting, windows recognizes them. Each time I try to boot with the "auto" setting, the time the bios starts, to the time it leaves the bios and goes to windows boot it never the same. It may range any where from 45sec. to 5min.! Sometimes I may have to press F1 to boot, and other times it won't even give me that message. I also tried placeing C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:idecd000 in the autoexec.bat and device c:\aoatapi.sys /d:idecd000 in the config.sys. That would work just fine if and only if the drives were set to "auto" in the bios. Here is another trial I did; I unplugged the SCSI drives, and DPT controller. Hooked a ide hard drive to the primary ide on the motherboard as master and hooked the cd-rw in line with that as slave. It worked great!! Except prior to it booting windows it says I need to run the EISA configuration utility at the DOS prompt since I have an error. If I have to I will run the system this way, but that is a last resort since I must buy a new ide hard drive. If I do it like this, how do i found out what EISA config util imust use? Here is all my Bios information;
Basic System Configuration
Page 1
Date xxxx
Time xxxx
Diskette Drive A 1.44 MB 3.5-inch
Diskette Drive B NONE
Fixed Disk 0 (0mb) AUTO
Fixed Disk 1 (0mb) AUTO
(Grayed out info)
Base Memory 640kb
Extended Memory 31744kb
Total Memory 32384kb
Math Coprocessor Installed
Video Display VGA/EGA
Baud Rate 9600 BPS
Parity None
Stop Bits 1 bits
Data Length 8 bits
IDE Fixed Disk Block Mode Disabled
Large Hard Disk Capacity Disabled
Advanced PIO Mode Disabled
Num Lock After Boot Enabled
Memory Test Enabled
Auto Configuration Mode Disabled
Fast Boot Mode Disabled
(grayed out info)
E0000h-FFFFFh (System Bios) Enabled
C0000h-C7FFFh (Video Bios) Enabled
C8000h-CFFFFh Disabled
D0000h-D7FFFh Disabled
D8000h-DFFFFh Disabled
Internal Cache(CPU Cache) Enabled
External Cache Enabled
Cache Scheme Write Block
System Memory Parity Enabled
Memory at 15mb-16mb Reserved for System Use
E0000h-FFFFFh (System Bios) Cacheable
C0000h-C7FFFh (Video Bios) Cacheable
L2 Cache Hit Timing for CPU Cycles Slow
L2 Cache Hit Timing for CPU Cycles Slow
PCI To Main Memory Write Buffer Disabled
CAS Precharge Time Normal
RAS Precharge Time Normal
DRAM Read Cycle CAS Low Time Normal
CPU To Memory Posted Write Disabled
EDC Write Page Hit Lead Off Wait State Normal
Single Bit Error Generate NMI Enabled
PCI Slot Number 1
Function Number of Device 0
Device Function Disabled
Bus Master Disabled
IRQ Level for INTA Pin --
IRQ Level for INTB Pin --
IRQ Level for INTC Pin --
IRQ Level for INTD Pin --
On Board SCSI AIC-7870 Disabled
(grayed out info)
Boot Device Disabled
IRQ Level for INTA Pin --
VGA Palette Snoop Disabled
Diskette Drive Normal
Fixed Disk Drive Normal
System Boot Device Drive A Then C
Serial Port 1 Base Address 3F8h
Serial Port 2 Base Address 2F8h
Parallel Port Base Address 378h
Operation Mode Standard Parallel Port(SPP)
EPP Version Selection 1.7
Setup Password None
Power On Password None
Ok my questions. How can I make it go through the bios much quicker without having to press F1, but have windows still find the cd-rom? I realize this is about a ten page paper, but I don't know what info may be needed. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
[This message has been edited by jarrettjones (edited 11-23-1999).]