EISA Configuration Utility
I have a Dell Desktop as below:
Service Tag: 7G2BU System Type: OptiPlex GX1 Ship Date: 10/19/1999 I am running Windows 98SE. If I add a second HDD or CD-ROM Drive the system does not recognize them. They are setup in the System BIOS ok, but are not recognized in windows. I have read about an "EISA Configuration Utility" as follows: The EISA Configuration Utility If you have a system that can use EISA expansion cards and you are experiencing problems with your system, you may have a conflict between the information stored by the System Setup program and the EISA Configuration Utility. Although the EISA Configuration Utility can read changes from the System Setup program, the change is not recorded into EISA configuration memory until you run the EISA Configuration Utility and save the new information. I tried Dell Support and got nowhere. Does anyone have a copy of the EISA Configuration Utility, or any other solution? |
One wrote: I have a Dell Desktop as below: Service Tag: 7G2BU System Type: OptiPlex GX1 Ship Date: 10/19/1999 I am running Windows 98SE. If I add a second HDD or CD-ROM Drive the system does not recognize them. They are setup in the System BIOS ok, but are not recognized in windows. I have read about an "EISA Configuration Utility" as follows: The EISA Configuration Utility If you have a system that can use EISA expansion cards and you are experiencing problems with your system, you may have a conflict between the information stored by the System Setup program and the EISA Configuration Utility. Although the EISA Configuration Utility can read changes from the System Setup program, the change is not recorded into EISA configuration memory until you run the EISA Configuration Utility and save the new information. I tried Dell Support and got nowhere. Does anyone have a copy of the EISA Configuration Utility, or any other solution? If the devices are recognized in the system bios but not in Windows, then this is a Windows problem. For the hard drive, it needs to be partitioned and formatted before Windows can recognize it. Installing the CDROM drive should also be simple as it, too, is (presumably) an IDE device. The configuration might be making the second HD as a Slave to a Master HD on the primary IDE connector; the CDROM drive would be by itself as a Master on the secondary IDE connector, for instance. There is no need to use ECU; Windows 98SE, as a PnP OS will take care of things, including any optimization. |
"One" wrote in message news:npM%e.2456$%p6.2191@trnddc06... I have a Dell Desktop as below: Service Tag: 7G2BU System Type: OptiPlex GX1 Ship Date: 10/19/1999 I am running Windows 98SE. If I add a second HDD or CD-ROM Drive the system does not recognize them. They are setup in the System BIOS ok, but are not recognized in windows. I have read about an "EISA Configuration Utility" as follows: The EISA Configuration Utility If you have a system that can use EISA expansion cards and you are experiencing problems with your system, you may have a conflict between the information stored by the System Setup program and the EISA Configuration Utility. Although the EISA Configuration Utility can read changes from the System Setup program, the change is not recorded into EISA configuration memory until you run the EISA Configuration Utility and save the new information. I tried Dell Support and got nowhere. Does anyone have a copy of the EISA Configuration Utility, or any other solution? Your machine is not EISA. Both new devices should be jumpered Cable Select. For the hard drive, as mentioned, it must be partitioned and formatted. Make sure it is either on the middle connector of the cable with the hard drive or on either connector on the other cable. The CD drive should, preferably, be on the end connector of the second cable. Tom |
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