On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:11 PM, <Hollandia at ccountry.net> wrote:
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
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If after all the good advice here you still haven't got it working, this is the sort
of issue that's pretty commonly discussed and solved on the Vintage Computer
Forum which deals largely with old PC problems. Might be worth a look.
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/index.php
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