Paid 25bucks for a BIOS repairing...but doesn't improve much

[winghung]

Yeah, I killed my BIOS, and now it is alive again,
but the nightmare just beings...

Situation: My 4 years old Aristo chipset motherboard and AMI BIOS cannot detect my new IBM ATA100 60GB hardisk

Can anyone tell me how I can make it detectable on my PC?
Installing a Raid card? Updating the BIOS?
someone please help >_

Comments

[timoran]

Do you see the HD on the list of drives at startup (or in the menu)? For example:

Primary Master: IBM_60GB1001
Primary Slave: None
Secondary Master: Philips_16X
Secondary Slave: None

This is what you would see if you had a hard drive and a CD-ROM. If you don't see your new hard drive in the list, then you probably goofed in installing it - either the cable/power supply isn't plugged in right, or you have the slave/master setting wrong. To be safe I recommend setting the jumpers on all your drives to "Cable Select [CS]." If that doesn't work you've probably got a busted HD.

[winghung]

I'm sure that my new IBM HD is set to slave mode.

And this is what I see before I ask the BIOS to Auto Detect HD:

Primary Master: user(my old hardisk)
Primary Slave: None
Secondary Master: CDROM
Secondary Slave: CDROM

after asking for auto detect, the system was frozen,
and the display was:

Primary Master: user(my old hardisk)
Primary Slave: _
Secondary Master:
Secondary Slave:

...and what I could do is alt+ctrl+delete~~~ O.o

[timoran]

Set BOTH hard drives to CS. Or, make one of them master and make one of them slave. Any other config can cause problems.

You may also want to consider a new motherboard. And a new CPU.

[winghung]

yes, I've set one master, one slave, but still sucks.

um buying new MB and CPU is a good idea, but well,
I just don't want to buy them now.

[darkbahamut]

"If you don't see your new hard drive in the list, then you probably goofed in installing it"

A 4 year old motherboard doesnt auto support a nice shiny 60GB HDD you know. Changes are the BIOS need to be updated. Its either dead HDD or BIOS doesnt wanna know (95% chance its this).

[winghung]

thanks for supporting me to try that dangerous thing again...
BIOS updating, wing bro. O.o

I'm not afraid if there are clear instructions for updating.
And the problem is, how can I know what BIOS flash ROM
I should download for the update? I only know my mainboard use Aristo chipset.