Hard disk drives connect to a motherboard using either a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment connector or an Integrated Drive Electronics connector. SATA drives are newer than IDE, so older ...

When you start up your computer, the BIOS scans the memory and checks the video adapter before searching the hard drives for a bootable operating system. If you have a misconfigured hard drive or one ...

A10, the latest BIOS from Dell's website, but no IDE drives are being picked up by the BIOS, neither the CD-ROM or the hard drive. controller smoked? this PC was running windows 2000 pro for over a ...

My computer has had occasional problems with the BIOS recognizing things properly. I'm using an old BIOS release(4J), but I haven't had any problems as severe as this recently. My IDE set up is WD ...