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    Problem with BIOS after new Hard Disk Install

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by darbid, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. darbid

    darbid Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have an acer 9520 with Bios 1.16R
    This laptop had 2 Hitachi 160GB drives as standard.
    I recently removed No.2 and replaced it with a Samsung 320.

    My problem started when I noticed that I could not boot with an USB plugged in.

    I have noticed the following in the BIOS.

    In the information section it lists both internal drives.
    In the boot list section it ONLY lists the No1 drive and there is not listing for the new drive.


    WITH USB PLUGGED IN

    The information page is the same.
    But on the boot list it now lists the USB drive as an optional "to boot from drive"

    Can someone let me know why the bios recognizes this in the information but does not list my drive in the boot list as I think this is the problem here.

    There is a possible BIOS upgrade but from the information supplied it does not say that it will help.

    Thanks in advance
     
    darbid, Jul 11, 2008
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  2. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    do you have them both set as master in the bios.
    brothers laptop had this when he changed one HDD,
    he had to set one as slave/secondary in the bios and reformat the new drive.
     
    hoggie, Jul 11, 2008
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  3. darbid

    darbid Notebook Enthusiast

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    The bios does not have that as an option.

    In fact how the hell do you update/flash the bios.

    I get an Power error check from the windows method - in the readme file it says it is not supported.

    The other method is run ***.dat from dos prompt :confused: sorry for being dumb where is DOS in Vista and then how do you find and call this dat file?
     
    darbid, Jul 11, 2008
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