strike f1 2 continue

[nobby4uk]

strange,what am i doing wrong here.
got a old dell pentium 3 pc running ME on it ,,but every time i start it up it says

""primary hard disk drive 1 not found
secondry hard disk drive 1 not found
strike f1 to continue""

when i hit f1 everything fine how can i correct this problem please


cheers

 

[Dutcho]

Your cmos battery is dead mate, look on the mother board for a button battery and replace it with exactly the same type.

 

[greekpig]

Not sure, but could be that on your 2nd IDE port in your CMOS setup has drives specified on them that don't exist. When starting up, try F2 (usual key press to get into the BIOS on Dells), and see if you have hard disk types specified where they shouldn't be. I'm no expert, but usually they're on "AUTO" to automatically configure the hard disk parameters or "NONE" to specify no hard disk, but it could be that you've got explicit hard disk definitions on the IDE ports, and the disks are no longer there.

... may be!

 

[nobby4uk]

not 100% sure what you ment m8 ,but pressed F2 gone into setup and looked at the

primary drive 0 ...........hard drive
primary drive 1............unknown device
secondary drive 0.......cd-rom
seccondary drive 1......unknown device

all these are set on auto

boot up is

1 diskette drive
2 hard disk drive c
3 ide cd-rom device

if this is all corect then as stated maybe its the cmos battery.

(by the way how much are they nowadays..)

cheers for the help

 

[Dutcho]

Well it sounds like it to me mate, I think the CR25's are about £2.50.

Good Luck.:Clap:

 

[nobby4uk]

100% right cmos battery 4.99, done the job perfect, thanks to all.

the answer it only simple if you know,which i didn't....thanks again

 

[Dutcho]

No Problem, happy to help..