Re: Bios upgrade to A09 on XPS D266

The HDD is set for AUTO recognition - so it wont let you manually
adjust any of the details that it lists below it, but I assume they are
correct because they have been autodetected (transfer mode and ultra
DMA etc). I have tried adjusting the boot order and where it identifies
"hard drive" below the boot order, it correctly specifies my Maxtor
disk as the first drive to attempt a boot from.

Yet still it fails to attempt a boot from disk, whirrs the floppy and
complains if a floppy disk is not present.

Thanks to all for your continued suggestions.

I presume that re-flashing bios will not do any good, because the bios
appears to have taken and allows me to make adjustments. I have tried
clearing the nvram and was quite hopefull about that, but it made no
difference. I am sceptical about resetting factory defaults for this
new bios because the defaults that were present when it first loaded
were totally inappropriate. - I will give that a go though.
Kev.

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