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August 21st, 2024 19:50

DELL DIMENSION 8300/ BIOS PROBLEM

The bios shows that the primary and secondary Master drive are off. The primary and secondary slave drive both works finding my hard drive and both CD-ROMs.  Last time I looked the primary masters worked and the slave drives were off. I tried turning both primary and secondary drive on to AUTO. No luck came up "Not Found". In the last year I have replaced the hard drive and both dvd-rom and CD-ROM. Can someone help me how I lost my primary master settings and get them back. 

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August 21st, 2024 22:58

replace cmos battery with a new one.

sounds like you have one hdd and two cd-rom.  the two cd-rom should connect to the white IDE socket on motherboard.

the single hdd should connect to the black IDE socket.

make sure hdd jumper is set as master.

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