I'm having problems with my BIOS detecting my hard drive size.?
476856
You can always set the bios to the actual settings instead of using the auto detect feature.
856145
there's a little program called cpuid that tells you this and more but you could look in your bios too
1120644
check your bios settings
924938
Check your bios. There is a numlock setting there.
271989
perhaps your bios battery discharged.
349758
check with your motherboard manufacturers website to see if there are any bios updates that will add functionality for  your bios to support them features , but I dont see why not :) I would of thought there be issues with supporting large hard drives and such like but not for support of a dvd rw drive or anything like that, why are you having issues trying to get a dvd rw drive to work or something ?
228727
Download a program called SiSoftware Sandra at http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=92\n It will tell you what model your motherboard is, how much memory it can use etc. If you at least know what model the motherboard is then you can look up the specs, otherwise there is no way of knowing.
537471
U hv a bios problem, contact ur vendor now.
8322
If you can format 128Gb, your BIOS likely already supports LBA (Large Block Addressing).\n\nSounds more like you are trying to format it using FAT32.  FAT32 only partitions/formats up to 128Gb.  NTFS will handle up to 1.6Tb, so if you're using Win2000 or WinXP, use NTFS.  Otherwise (as already suggested), you'll need to partitioning.
866133
THE MOTHER BOARD IS FINE  THE PROBLEM WAS THE BIOS IS NOT SET UP CORRECLTY AND SINCE U DID A RESET ON IT ,NOW U HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW IT WAS SET UP, OPEN UP THE COMPUTER TAKE OUT THE CABLES WHERE UR CD AND HARD DRIVE IS, NOW START THE COMPUTER IS GOING TO SAY IN YOUR SCREEN HARDISK NOT FOUND AFTER IT SAYS THAT CONNECT THE HARDDRIVE TO THE COMPUTER TO SEE IF IT RECONIZE IT \nIF DOESNT RECONG IT  THEN GO TO BIO WITH THE COMPUTER OPEN AND THE HARDRIVE STILL IN THERE AND COM STILL ON IN THE BIO SET UP GO TO HARDWARE AND THERE GOING TO BE A OPTIONS WHERE II SAY DISABLE OR ENABLE ,ENABLE THE THE HARDRIVE AND THEN SAVE WHERE IT SAYS SECURITY AND THAT IT
112486
It could be many things.... start by disconnecting  your Hard Drive... if it still restarts and does not let you stay in the bios try a new Power Supply... if persist its most likely your motherboard... make sure to disconnect  everything else...
937971
If your BIOS supports it will work. Go to BIOS (when starting up press F2) Go to start up or booting, put whatever you want it to boot to first. Just one thing to be aware of. This will not be as fast as a normal hard drive.
942462
its possible that your bios battery is dead and forgot what drive is in your computer, enter bios setup and have it autodetect hard drives.\nif the battery is dead the clock time will be wrong also, and all other bios settings.\nif you reset the clock and hard drive you will be able to boot one time.\nif this is the problem you need to replace the battery, it may cost you $2.\n\n\ngood luck\nTV
114366
agreed, if you are un-able to locate a setting in the BIOS to 'auto detect' your hard drive, then you need to speak, (or e-mail,) to Sony customer support.....
227314
There is a RAID controller which need to be enabled first (at the BIOS level), before Windows is able to detect it.\n\nJust goto the BIOS during startup and find the RAID options under Advanced Chipset (or other place, depending on BIOS)
6039
Your BIOS must support booting from USB devices.  On system startup you need to get into your BIOS (usually F2 - check manufacturer's specification), and find where you can specify the boot order.  Select a low-numbered boot order item, and set it to USB-HDD (if availble, otherwise another USB option).  This may require several attempts until the right device option is found.\n\nSince most USB drives are ATAPI-compliant, your BIOS should detect it as if it were an external USB hard drive.\n\nJust make sure you specify a boot order BEFORE your internal hard drive (usually HDD, or IDE0), otherwise your system will always boot to the hard drive.\n\nAlso, you need to format the USB drive as a bootable drive.  If you can get the system to boot from a DOS, Windows or Linux floppy disk, you can try installing DOS, Windows 95/98, or Linux (Win2000, and WinXP require more than 256Mb for sytem files).  Your system will likely assign the USB drive as the C:&#92; drive (MAKE SURE THIS IS THE CASE BEFORE FORMATTING!!!).\n\nKeep in mind that most USB drives are slower than hard drives, so performance may not be up to par.  The newer "high-speed" drives are faster, but not comparable to a real hard drive.\n\nIf no options work, your Micro Valut may not be ATAPI-compliant, or it's USB-HDD firmware may not be compatible with your system.  I had this happen with a SanDisk Cruzer mini, but a PNY Attache worked.\n\nIf I may make one suggestion as well...make a bootable CD with your images instead.  CD's are much more rugged, and cannot be accidentally erased.  Duplicates are EXTREMELY cheaper (about 5 cents vs. $20) than the USB drive solution.  Many more BIOS' support booting from CD (for about 10 years now), so compatibility is usually not an issue.  All of the commercial CD-burning packages (including most of the LITE versions) support making bootable CD's.  The only trick is to make a bootable floppy that it can use to create the boot image on the CD.
99442
There is a special part of the bios for this. It is called crotchocil.dat Go into the bios and format your hard drive, first. Then, install Gynaherpicyphalotramin. It is a great piece of software. It will prevent future problems like this.