CMOS & BIOS

[Peacemaker]

Friend gave me his PC for the weekend to fix it up. At first it was just that the video card didnt work. I put an old one of mine in and it works pretty well now. The thing is the CDROM is all messed up. Sometimes it will read the disk normally, other times it wont read it at all but it always makes the noises that indicates it is trying to read it. I know the problem lies with the fact that its hooked to the Slave Device 1 line and not the Master Device 0. I switched them and it worked for one CD thus I could get online. I know that the problem lies in BIOS and SCSI. Its the only place that it could be messing up.

This is what Ive done.

1. In BIOS told it one of the drives to boot is CDROM (wasnt there b4)
2. Put new Video Card in (went from Geforce 4 PCI to Geforce 2 AGP, both still in computer)
3. Got monitor on new video card (CMOS no longer shows on start up so I cant access BIOS)
4. Noticed the Slave Cord is hooked to the CDROM instead of Master, switched.
5. Got one CD to read, installed drivers for Cable modem. Now online
6. CDs no longer read, cant access bios, blank screen on boot up untill it gets to the log in screen. Pressing any keys before log in freezes the computer.
7. Switched CDROM hookup line back to Slave 1. Still wont read. Hoping that switching around BIOS will get it to work again.

( I DID NOT BIULD THIS THING!)

[Rbstr]

the jumpers on the back of the CD-ROM may be messedup