Upgraded my Inspiron 8200 bios system won’t boot

Question

I have upgraded the bios to version A11 and now the system won’t see the hard drive or CD drive any ideas?

vivfl · Answer

I did use a floppy

boppo · Answer

if you used the the windows method there is a good chance your motherboard is toast. the floppy method is a safer way to update the bios.

boppo · Answer

do you see A11 on the bios in setup?

boppo · Answer

the controller is the same for both drives. it could of just went bad. you could try to downgrade your bios.

boppo · Answer

sorry i wasn't much help.

boppo · Answer

you could try to reseat the drives. set the bios to default. it's looking like a MB. sorry

vivfl · Answer

Thanks for the help

leduke30 · Answer

Remove the keyboard and disconnect the Palmrest connector for about 15 minutes. That disconnects the CMOS Battery also and resets BIOS defaults. If the HDD on this model is not detected, a perfectly good Fixed Optical CD Drive will not be detected either, since it is slaved to the HDD. It is a peculiarity of all the Inspiron 8***/Latitude C8** series.

vivfl · Answer

I did but it did not help

vivfl · Answer

Yes it shows up in both the boot window and the setup windows on page 1 of 7 in the list everything shows up except

Primary Hard Drive: None

Fixed Optical Drive: None

Message Edited by vivfl on 11-18-200609:03 PM

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