Help me please (BIOS)

[sycotoad]

I have a secondary computer that up until a week ago worked fine. Trouble is I left it in the same room with an idiot (namely me) hehe. Jetway mobo 620BF with a celly 500MHz. The problem is that I was given a good VooDoo2 and a good modem (both work on my other system) and when I fitted them to the system and booted it up, the comp couldnt detect them. Done the qbvious, checked to make sure they were seated, control panel--add new hardware, device manager and deleted other drivers etc...but still nothing. I believe that I might have inadvertently changed a setting in my Bios or something. Any help will be great???Thanks

 

[el]

do one at a time and redetect new hardware.

 

[Super]

ok, I don't know if this will help, but it helped me when my comp didn't detect the modem:

First boot into windows, try installing the modem software any way you can, than after installing it reboot, and it should detect the modem. (I can't remember exactly how I installed them, because it was a very long time ago.)

and as for the Voodoo, I'm not sure, but I have a stupid suggestion (pardon me for this one) is your motherboard Plug and Play? or is it enabled?

Hope this helps.

 

[sycotoad]

Super (Jun 13, 2001 08:24 a.m.):
ok, I don't know if this will help, but it helped me when my comp didn't detect the modem:

First boot into windows, try installing the modem software any way you can, than after installing it reboot, and it should detect the modem. (I can't remember exactly how I installed them, because it was a very long time ago.)

and as for the Voodoo, I'm not sure, but I have a stupid suggestion (pardon me for this one) is your motherboard Plug and Play? or is it enabled?

Well I finally now have the system recognizing the modem but it wont connect, check all settings and they seem to be right

How can I tell whether the mobo is plug and play? / enabled? Pardon my ignorance! All I know is that a short time ago when I used to add hardware the system always detected it on bootup
Hope this helps.

 

[sycotoad]

el (Jun 13, 2001 08:57 a.m.):
do one at a time and redetect new hardware.

Been there and done that .......thrice even.....TY

 

[LutaWicasa]

Hey sycotoad, long time no see. When ya installed the Cellie if ya cleared the bios you may need to enable PnP, and make sure ya tell it your using a PnP OS. This should all be in bios, just look around

 

[sycotoad]

LutaWicasa (Jun 13, 2001 03:08 p.m.):
Hey sycotoad, long time no see. When ya installed the Cellie if ya cleared the bios you may need to enable PnP, and make sure ya tell it your using a PnP OS. This should all be in bios, just look around

Hows it going Luta

Thanks will look into that
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