Hello Everyone,
My boss bought a CSA8000 off of eBay that had a failed hard drive. He asked me to put a new SATA hard drive in it and install Windows 2000. I got a little back plane converter to put in a SATA drive in the place if the IDE. Here is what I have so far. The unit came to me, failed hard drive, no video on the display (works with external monitor), drive B error at boot up, PXE boot (no hard drive seen), says it will enter setup when F2 is pressed (never goes into setup). CD player does not open.
So, I downloaded a BIOS update for Intel BL440ZX board from the Intel site. Put it on a bootable floppy and booted the system up with the floppy. It came up and ran the BIOS update (big mistake). Now when I try to boot it up, there is nothing. No display, no boot sounds, no post, etc. I remove the CMOS battery, nothing. I set the CMOS jumper to pins 2/3 from 1/2, still nothing.
I read somewhere after the fact not to update the BIOS using firmware updates from the Intel site. That is what I did. How can I get this thing back with the right BIOS firmware so it will somewhat boot again?
PS - If I take the jumper off the pins and power on, it will try to read the floppy drive. Won't boot from it, but I believe that setting is to restore a BIOS if I had the proper files.
Thanks for your help!
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