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  From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@mmc.com.au>
  To  : Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:09:02 +0930 (CST)

RE: IDE geometry detection & getting to BIOS

> > Can you get inside the Lodin machine?
> 
> yep...
> 
> > Maybe there is a jumper to reset the bios settings (ie. the 
> > BIOS maybe 
> > specifically set to be hidden).
> 
> ew. I'd really rather not try that without knowing what the settings
> were in the first place, because if someone has already spent hours
> fixing an obscure problem by turning something on/off in BIOS, I don't
> want to cause myself the same grief by resetting it without knowing what
> they were before... and on top of that, it won't help me get into BIOS
> anyway (unless doing that removes the splash screen), which is what I
> wanted to do in the first place so I could manually set the HDD
> parameters...

Indeed, however, I'd check for the existence of any specific jumpers.  There 
maybe a lockout one too.

MMC
> 
> Thanks anyway though :)
> 
> rr
> 
> 
> 

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Matthew
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