Jumby
03-03-2001, 03:42 PM
A few weeks ago I used a copy of E-Z Bios. It worked great for the situation at hand. I play with computers, trying to learn as I go, and I have a computer that I use for testing and experimenting with. My brother had a hard drive that had Windows 95 on it, but the hard drive seemed like it was bad so I replaced the drive, partitioned, fdisked, loaded E-Z bios, (because it was an older computer), installed Windows 95 and everything is fine with that computer.
I installed the apparent bad hard drive in my "test" computer just to check it, and when I turned it on, it started booting, then showed E-Z Bios as it started. My question is, if the bios is written to the CMOS, why would this computer with a fairly new motherboard start to boot and show E-Z Bios as it started? Why wouldn't it show the bios that is on the CMOS chip of this motherboard? I put the original hard drive in, and it shows the correct info. at bootup.
Any info. is appreciated.
Kelly Kinsey
I installed the apparent bad hard drive in my "test" computer just to check it, and when I turned it on, it started booting, then showed E-Z Bios as it started. My question is, if the bios is written to the CMOS, why would this computer with a fairly new motherboard start to boot and show E-Z Bios as it started? Why wouldn't it show the bios that is on the CMOS chip of this motherboard? I put the original hard drive in, and it shows the correct info. at bootup.
Any info. is appreciated.
Kelly Kinsey