Phrazer
02-09-2002, 04:06 PM
I just bought an Epox 8HKA+ running an Athlon XP 1600 from McGlen.com. System came assembled with AOpen CD-Rom, Floppy, and 256mbDRAM.
I installed Hard Drives (WD & Quantum), Gainward AGP Card, NIC, and WinXP Pro.
Everything was running satisfactory until I went away for a few hours. I set the system to go into standby mode. When I returned I tried to eject a software disc I had in the CD-Rom. No response. The light was on, on the CD-Rom but "nobody was home". I checked the drive status in Windows Explorer, but it didn't even show the CD-Rom drive. Needless to say "given Windows history" I rebooted to see if the drive would reappear. During boot I noticed the BIOS didn't recognize a CD-Drive connected, and when Windows did come up neither did its Device Manager.
So, I went to Epox.com for some answers and checked out the latest BIOS Flash Updates. I was running the 11/02/2001 BIOS Version and after reading about the upgrade support for CD-ROM UDMA mode, I thought version 01/08/2002 might possibly iron out the problem.
After downloading & extracting the files to floppy I rebooted to DOS prompt and thusly flashed the BIOS per Epox instructions.
After all was done and reboot, not only is my CD-Rom still lost, I have now lost the floppy drive leaving me unable to "flashback" to the previous BIOS status. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the CD-Rom & Floppy drive several times with still know recognition.
Nevertheless I have a real dilema, does anyone know a way out of this? Should I resort to sending my system back to McGlen for exchange? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.:confused:
I installed Hard Drives (WD & Quantum), Gainward AGP Card, NIC, and WinXP Pro.
Everything was running satisfactory until I went away for a few hours. I set the system to go into standby mode. When I returned I tried to eject a software disc I had in the CD-Rom. No response. The light was on, on the CD-Rom but "nobody was home". I checked the drive status in Windows Explorer, but it didn't even show the CD-Rom drive. Needless to say "given Windows history" I rebooted to see if the drive would reappear. During boot I noticed the BIOS didn't recognize a CD-Drive connected, and when Windows did come up neither did its Device Manager.
So, I went to Epox.com for some answers and checked out the latest BIOS Flash Updates. I was running the 11/02/2001 BIOS Version and after reading about the upgrade support for CD-ROM UDMA mode, I thought version 01/08/2002 might possibly iron out the problem.
After downloading & extracting the files to floppy I rebooted to DOS prompt and thusly flashed the BIOS per Epox instructions.
After all was done and reboot, not only is my CD-Rom still lost, I have now lost the floppy drive leaving me unable to "flashback" to the previous BIOS status. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the CD-Rom & Floppy drive several times with still know recognition.
Nevertheless I have a real dilema, does anyone know a way out of this? Should I resort to sending my system back to McGlen for exchange? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.:confused: