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Motherboard Help

Sep 4, 2004 4:55AM PDT

Why do i have to manuel find my hard drive in my bios when I boot my computer.... Could my motherboard be bad or my hard drive? After I manuel do it, The computer runs fine... Could it be the Bios battery....Any help plz...
Winxp
AMD 1800
Atx board K7vta3

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(NT) (NT) What settings do you have for that drive in theBIOS???
Sep 4, 2004 5:33AM PDT
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Re: Motherboard Help
Sep 5, 2004 12:57AM PDT

If it's the battery, you'd have to reset the time-date.
set the BIOS to AUTO for Hdd options. If you used the bios option to detect the Hdd, those settings would remain in BIOS.
what happens when you boot w/o using bios id?