10 Aug
2008
10 Aug
'08
2:11 p.m.
One of my machines is an old Packard-Bell Legend 610 machine, to which I am
trying to fit a second hard drive.
The machine will not recognize any modern (or semi-modern) hard drive I have
attempted to fit. I have tried various master/slave combinations, to no avail.
My guess is that this is due to the BIOS being of am early type. The BIOS
chip is a socketed DIP package and the lettering on it is too faded to read.
The screen boot-up display is this:
PhoenixBIOS(TM) A486 Version 1.01
PB400 OPTI 486WB
Reference ID 08
Is this a reasonable guess?
If so, what might be done by way of a BIOS upgrade?
Thanks,
Kurt