Upgraded Abit BH-6 BIOS now can't boot

[jlevene]

I have my sisters PC and wanted to upgrade it, so I put in a large HDD (80GB) and the system didn't recognise it.
System is: Abit BH-6 rev 1.02 mobo Intel PII 500 Mhz CPU

I went to the Abit website and downloaded the latest BIOS along with the flash utility.
Flashed the BIOS ok, now when I set the BIOS to boot from CD 1st it doesn't recognise my XP CP.

I have formatted the diak and loaded XP on anothe PC and then put it in this PC and it hangs after post diags with a blank screen.

I can boot from W98 boot floppy disk ok and then I can see the CDROM drive. But can't load XP like this though.

Have I just created a very large tea coaster with the mobo?

Regards,
Jeff

[Wolfreakyn]

Minimum for XP is PIII at 500, load WIN98 and you'll be fine.

You could always download the XP Setup Boot Disks

Just a note, it's not a good idea to load an OS from another machine onto a HDD that doesn't have the same hardware, as you can see, it doesn't always work.

Just another note, if your mobo were a coaster, it wouldn't even boot at all.

And one last just another note, after flashing the BIOS, always go in and set it to the defaults. Then make changes accordingly. Try doing that and see if the HDD is recognized and everything else as well.

Originally posted by Wolfreakyn
Minimum for XP is PIII at 500, load WIN98 and you'll be fine.

Not so . . .

From source . . .

The minimum hardware requirements for Windows XP Home Edition are:
Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device
Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600)or higher resolution
Sound card
Speakers or headphones


The minimum hardware requirements for Windows XP Professional include:
Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device
Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution
Sound card
Speakers or headphones

It should install fine w/ what he has, just need to get the hardware sorted out.

[Wolfreakyn]

True and a 3 cylinder Suzuki motor in a Cadillac will still make it down the road.

I didn't say it would run well . . . I just said it should install.

With 256MB or 512MB of RAM, that thing will run along fine.

[Omardeth]

hmmm i wonder if there is something wrong with that bio's i to just flashed a bh6 and now it is dead

forget what i said just re read it .. i need to go to bed i thought u said the motherboard was dead ...

[jlevene]

All,

Many thanks for all the replies.

I wasn't thinking when I said the mobo was toast, cos of course it wouldn't work at all.

I managed with a workaround.....

Loaded Win98 (which it did recognise from the CD, then put in the XP CD and performed an upgrade with a complete replacement of 98. Bingo.

I think the CD drive is possibly out of alignement as the XP CD will start on another machine but not this one.

Probably nothing to do with the mobo after all.

Regards,
Jeff