re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:45 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by normanw (1106 messages posted) Yes, this has long been the case with SCSI drives, though in my experience the message always included a reference to the SCSI controller BIOS. (It would be interesting to see a working computer with no BIOS at all -- a sort of digital Indian rope trick.) ‘There’s always tomorrow. At least, there always has been, so far.’ – Keith Waterhouse On Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:22 pm, Steve wrote: >Many Computers these days have both sata, and IDE controllers. I have seen the no >Bios installed message when there are no Drives on one of the Controllers. >A example is Raid controllers have a separate Bios, so if no Raid Drives are present >then the Raid bios won't load because the Drives can't be found. Written in response to: re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (Steve: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:22 pm) Responses to this message: re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (Steve: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:54 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (ljiml: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 4:59 pm) re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (Adam Bradley: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 5:29 pm) re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (Steve: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 6:22 pm) re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (normanw: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 6:45 pm) re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (Steve: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 6:54 pm) re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 7:36 pm) re: bios is not installed, but computer works fine (except no onboard sound) (Steve: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 7:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum