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Hello Valarie:
    You were on the right track to suspect a problem with your BIOS being
unable to recognize the new drive.
    There are two ways to get around this.
    The preferred method is to install a PCI IDE controller card and connect
your hard drive to this. Both Promise and Maxtor make these cards.
    The second method is to install drive overlay software on your new hard
drive. You should be able to download this from Seagate.
    Though drive overlay software works, the PCI IDE card is preferred
because you'll get better performance and it eliminates problems the overlay
can cause.
--
regards,
          bruce

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"Valarie Simpson" <n1@koolkat.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I've just purchased an 2nd hand PC from my office. A HP Vectra VliSF
> P3 500 with a 8.4Gb HD and 64Mb RAM and a KZM-6120 motherboard which
> was working fine. I decided to upgrade the HD and memory and since
> then things have gone from bad to worse.
>
> Initially I upgraded the memory to 256mb and everthing appearred to be
> fine. I then changed the orginal Maxtor HD to a Seagate ST320212A with
> 10Gb. I then read that the bios had to be updated to read anything
> over 8Gb.
>
> Unfortunately the floppy now appears to have stopped working. The
> summary screen indicates that it has been set up and it is supposed to
> be first in the boot order but nothing. I opened the PC up and changed
> data cables. Still nothing so I changed floppy drives and received an
> error message 'Operating system not found.'
>
> In the setup, even though it had been set to auto, the Primary HD
> indicated that the size of the HD is 0Mb. I the manually set it to
> 16383cyl, 16hd, 63 sectors. The LBA read 20005680. I then saved and
> exited. On reboot it still would read from the floppy and the same
> 'Operating system not found' message came up. In the setup, the
> Primary IDE had changed to 17475cyl, 15hd, 63 sectors. The LBA had
> also changed. I then changed it back to no available. I then cleared
> the CMOS and was able to get into Windows ME after an agonising 10
> minute wait. All the setting had changed,the video resolution was not
> 640x800 and could not be changed. Even though the floppy was showing
> in "My computer" it still would'nt work and the CD-Rom was not
> showing.
>
> I went back in the setup and chnaged the secondary master to CD first
> and then Auto but is still say [None] as soon as you come out of the
> advance screen. On several retries the primary has changed from Max
> Capacity of 0Mb to 1653Mb. to the correct 10Gb but with the 17475cyl,
> 15hd, 63 sectors. During all this the floppy and CD has never work
> even though I have changed both and put the original HD back in i.e
> restored the PC to it's original state.
>
> I have also reseated the Memory and changed the battery. All to no
> avail. The very latest is the mouse and HD initialise, the Windows ME
> screen appears for 10 minutes, I then get a black screen and a
> flashing cursor for 15 minutes and then blue screen  with an Exception
> OE error refferring to VNetBios(01)+ 00000B8d and VMM(OC)+ 0000058B.
> And a 2nd error message "an i/o subsystem driver failed to load.
> Either the .\iosubsystem subdirectory is corrupt or the system is low
> on memory. System is halted."
>
> Clearly there is a problem here. PLEASE HELP! or this box is going out
> the windows.