PC BIOS Help

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Originally Posted by Spruence M

Which load bar are you reffering too? Windows?

Yes, Windows XP

Originally Posted by Spruence M

Is this the 2nd time this year you have changed your BIOS battery?

Yes indeed, the first time was fixed only because I had another problem a week or so later which was not in any way connected.

Originally Posted by Spruence M

The other three messages are about your SATA drives. Are you using Serial ATA drives at all? Or are you using EIDE or IDE drives? If you are not using SATA you could turn that off in the BIOS as well and that would stop the computer from seeking them at startup.

How do I check for this information?

Originally Posted by Spruence M

If you are using SATA Hard Drives, and your machine is still working, and you can access all your data from windows with no problem, then I would ignore it, but I would also put aside 10 bucks out of every paycheck in expectation that my motherboard was going to fail.

In the case of the Mother Board that went some months ago so I have a new one now, by the way the PC is a Dell 8400

Originally Posted by Spruence M

As I mentioned above, the first three SATA Seeks and the Floppy Seek are proboly default settings in your BOIS, and whomever built the machine, if it wasnt you, proboly disabled those settings before they sold it too you, so you wouldnt see that message. Most likly, since you dont have a floppy, and *IF* you are not using SATA drives, BIOS needs to be told to stop looking for them.

From the tech site I was given this info a follows -

Configure the "SATA Operation" Settings in the Computer BIOS

By default, the SATA Operation setting in the computer BIOS is set to RAID

Autodetect/AHCL To change this setting to RAID Autodetect/ATA, follow these steps

Press the F2 set up when your seek failed screen comes up

In the Setup screen, press the down arrow key to select Drives, and then the <Enter>

key to expand the Drives node

Press the down arrow key to select SATA Operations, and then press <Enter> key to select this option

Press the right arrow key to select RAID Auto/ATA, and then press the <Enter> key

Press the <Esc> key to exit the set up program

Press the right arrow key to select Exit, and then press the <Enter> key. The computer restarts