How can I find out manufacturer of motheboard?

[tricey7]

Hi,

I need to find out my pcs motherboard manufacturer?

All i can see on the motherboard is AGP and Year 2000 Compliant.

I can not get the pc to boot up so cannot use software that shows spec.

Please HElp.

Many thanks in advance

Adam

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Adam, can you tell us a bit more about the computer, make and model?

If however if it is a home or local build, you may finish up having to remove the motherboard from the case in the hope there is a label or even etching in the printed circuit underneath to give us a clue. Plus of course, once it is out of the case and cables disconnected, you may then see something more that may have been hidden while inside.

Nev.

[tricey7]

Hi, I have managed to find out via the BIOS number.

Thanks.

Do you know where I can get a Chaintech 6BTML IDE driver?

PLease

Many thanks Adam :)

[Jelly Bean]

Hello there.

 

Try here:

 

Walton Chaintech

[tricey7]

Nope, I cant seem to find the driver for motherboards on that site.

Lol,

Not very usefull are they.

Lol.

Many Thanks though :)

[Jelly Bean]

Download and update and run this:

 

Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit

 

It will give you the name and number of your mainboard.

[tricey7]

Well... Heres my new problem,

The computer is not recognizing the hard drive as being inserted.

And i have been told that I need to get the motherboard driver...

Now that I know the motherboard is Chaintech 6BTML.

Does anyone know where I could get that and how I would install it.

Many thanks

Adam

[tricey7]

I cannot use any software, as I cannot get into windows,

Basically I am starting from fresh, :)

Many Thanks Adam

[Jelly Bean]

If it is an IDE hard drive it realy should not require a driver,well usaly it dont.

 

Could you enter BIOS and check it is listed there and set to first boot device.

 

The problem maybe you need to check internal connections and make sure it is fully connected.

 

It is also possible your hard drive has died.

[tricey7]

Should I need any sort of driver for the motherboard?

The first thing that started all this was, I tryed installing Windows XP, and It wiped the hard drive.

And inside the compter on the motherboard, is it the black or white IDE that comes from the motherboard for hard drives or is that for cd drives/ flopy?

Many thanks. Adam

[Jelly Bean]

Hey Adam.

 

Usaly on newer mainboards the IDE connection will be blue or a sort of orange colour.

 

However in older mainboards it is usaly white.

 

Are you able to test the hard drive in another computer connecting it as a slave drive?

[tricey7]

I have a brand new hard drive, here. Which I got a few months back. I am going to try that out. lol.

And also, which format would you recommend formating to e.g. NTFS,

Cheers Adam

[Jelly Bean]

Do a quick format to NTFS.

[tricey7]

New problem.

I have installedmy other empty hard drive.

I then went into BIOS and it says IDE hard drive auto detection.

When I choos this it says primary master, and finds nothing, then primary slav, nothin again, then secondary master and it finds the hard drive. And the jumper is set correctly, anyiideas please Thanks Adam :)

[Jelly Bean]

MMMM I wonder if a BIOS update is needed,but please do not quote me on that one maybe one of the guys can answer that one.

 

Is your computer a brand named one?

 

I wonder what prompted you to attempt a reinstall of the operating system to begin with?

 

Have you tried a diffrent IDE connection?

 

Are you sure the power supply is fully connected?

 

Have you tried a more updated IDE cable?

[tricey7]

Its an old computer btw. And the brand I can read is System Works, I got this pc given, by a friend, as he got a new one, and it used to work, i just dont understand how it is reading it as secondary but wont read primaryt :@

[Jelly Bean]

Are you sure you set the jumpers correct to the brand of hard drive?Jumpers are set diffrently in diffrent brands.

 

Did you remove any other hard drive and only place in the one?

[tricey7]

Reeet, I have sorted this problem now. i have sorted it so that the motherboard is reading the hard drive correctly, im just gonna try and install Xp now, :) I will keep you on update, lol

:)

[Jelly Bean]

That is brilliant.

 

Set first boot to CD rom pop in the disk and save and exit BIOS.

 

Hope it goes well.

[tricey7]

reet, I have sorted the hard drive thing out, and i inserted the xp disc and it said "press any key to boot from CD" so i did that and went through loads of setup, then it copied the files to hard drive, then rebooted, then i have been told not to "press any key to boot from cd" on the secind time, and its saying "error reading operating system" please help.

Many thanks ADAm

[Jelly Bean]

You did correctly not to press any key the second time.

 

Read this:

 

"Error Loading Operating System" Error Message When You Restart Your Computer During Setup

 

What size hard drive was in the PC origonaly and what size have you fitted as in gig?