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I have an old system I'm working on that someone wants me to get going for them that they bought at a rummage sale for $5. I managed to get Windows 98SE installed on it and I found all the curent drivers for the system. However this was not an easy task since I had a tough time tring to get the system to recognize the harddrive. I've had to manually go into the bios and try several times to get it to see the drive. Even when saved and set to auto or user the system seems to loose track of the IDE harddrive and then you have to go back into the bios and try to get it to find it again. This happens most often after several reboots. When I was first trying to get the system to reconize the drive I did try another drive but it seemed to have a tough time seeing that one also.
Does this sound like a mainboard issue with the IDE port or something else? I've tried different IDE cables and updated the bios from vers 3.3 to the latest version 3.7 but this didn't seem to help much. My next step will probably be to take it outside to the air compressor and blow air on the IDE port on the mainboard incase there is some type of contamination on it but I didn't see anything at first glance, so my hopes of this being the cuase are not very high.
Specs;
Athlon XP 1600+ CPU
MSI K7T266 Pro2 mainboard with VIA chipset
Diamond Viper V770AGP video card
256 MBsystem ram
30 WD harddrive
Does this sound like a mainboard issue with the IDE port or something else? I've tried different IDE cables and updated the bios from vers 3.3 to the latest version 3.7 but this didn't seem to help much. My next step will probably be to take it outside to the air compressor and blow air on the IDE port on the mainboard incase there is some type of contamination on it but I didn't see anything at first glance, so my hopes of this being the cuase are not very high.
Specs;
Athlon XP 1600+ CPU
MSI K7T266 Pro2 mainboard with VIA chipset
Diamond Viper V770AGP video card
256 MBsystem ram
30 WD harddrive
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