Abit IB9 - How to reset the CMOS?

Alien18 · 21 Jan 2009 at 09:10

Hi All,

I am currently running Windows Vista, and decided that I would try installing XP as a dual boot option. (I was having various problems with a few Vista things that seemed to work fine on a friends XP machine).

Anyway, I got everything prepared and booted from my XP CD. When I get a scary error:

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)

After doing a bit of googling, it seems it may be a hardware related problem. I recalled that I installed a new HDD and new RAM last summer and hadn't reset the CMOS (using the jumper switch). I can't find my manual for the MoBo nor does it want to let me download it from the Abit website! Could someone please help me in aquiring a copy and/or tell me how to reset the CMOS?

Also, on a slighty related note. I did think that perhaps the error was casused by the fact I had no SATA drivers installed/ready. But when I came to create a floppy disc with the drivers on I discovered that although my ancient floppy drive is detected it wasn't detecting the disc. Since I have 1xIDE drive and 2xSATA2 drives (one of which is where i want to install XP) im guessing that even if I get XP Setup to successfully run it wont see the 2xSATA drives, is that correct? If so, is my only option to use nLite to create a new XP disc with the SATA drivers included?

Sorry for the barage of questions but this is rather starting to annoy me now!

[EDIT] Also, I have read that this could be a RAID setting related issue but I can't find any RAID option in the BIOS settings! Any help/advice would be very helpful too.

Many thanks in advance for any help.
Alien

Admiral Huddy · 21 Jan 2009 at 09:14

You should be able to get a copy of the manual in PDF from the manufacturers website.

However, the quick fix is to remove the CR2032 battery for a minutes, then replace.

Admiral Huddy · 21 Jan 2009 at 09:15

double post opps.

Alien18 · 21 Jan 2009 at 09:16

Admiral Huddy said:
You should be able to get a copy of the manual in PDF from the manufacturers website.

However, the quick fix is to remove the CR2032 battery for a minutes, then replace.

The Abit website has 4 links to the Manual and none of them work! Which is annoying! Is there anywhere I can view a cached version of a website (seem to remember this being possible in the past)?

Ah didn't realise that'd do the trick, presumably I'd need to disconnect the power too?

Admiral Huddy · 21 Jan 2009 at 09:44

Ideally yes. Make sure you take anti-static precautions too..

Alien18 · 21 Jan 2009 at 09:48

Tried that - the CMOS settings were all reset too I checked and still i get the error!

Am I right in thinking that Windows Setup would just ignore SATA drives if it didn't have the drivers, it surely would cause this error?

I suppose it could be a RAM issue, I have 2x1gb dual channel & 2x512mb in dual channel!

I hate it when things dont jsut work the way they're supposed to! lol!

Alien18 · 21 Jan 2009 at 15:20

OK it turned out to be something as silly as not having the SATA drivers! So I used nLite to integrate them into my XP Pro Disc. And after much trying, I can't get XP Setup to create the correct Partition. I've installed XP many times before and never had a problem! Now, it doesn't give me the option to Format the Unallocated Space as NTFS format, it just creates a new partition as RAW and won't let me install XP! Any ideas what's causing this?

PS. I've cleared enogh space on my of my SATA drives and my IDE drive to see if that was the prob, but it does the same on both!