Gateway T5048 BIOS won't acknowledge ATA HD and no way to manually setup

Hello wmalvinx.

in the manual they say press F2 twice.
first press will show then post screen
sec. press open the bios.

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According to the detailed specs on that model, it came with a 60GB ATA-5 EIDI hard drive. therefore, you can use any ATA compatible (ATA-5, ATA-6 or ATA-100) EIDE/IDE drive that has jumpers enabling you to configure the drive as "Master". Western Digital Blue Scorpio and Seagate Momentus lines both have models that will fit the bill. You can find those drives at your neighborhood BestBuy or Staples pretty easily. I don't know if the A25 BIOS supports 48-bit logical block addressing (LBA), in spite of what toshiba says, If it only supports 24-bit LBA the maximum drive size is 137GB. If it supports 48-bit LBA then you can go as high as you can find drives available; usually 500GB. I suspect that it supports 48-bit LBA because various online vendors list up to 250GB drives for that model. The most important thing about the drive, though, is that it MUST be jumperable as 'master'. A cable select only drive won't work. Both the Western Digital and Seagate EIDE models have jumpers. hope this helps but if you need anything else just ask:)

Hi,

Welcome to Fixya. Would like to know if the DVD drive is still detected in Bios Page? Is it detected on Windows? Can you got to bios page and on the main page please check if the DVD drive is on the list so that we can determine the cause of the problem. Please provide the information needed to be able to fix the issue.

Thanks

if you have a new hard drive you will have to install the windows operating system from an external source such as a cd drive
go to bios --boot settings and change from 1st boot hard drive to 1st boot cd
install the win os and then you can install the rest
when finished go back to bios and -boot and change back to 1st boot hard drive

The mx3215 uses a SATA Hard drive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150380%201035915133%201309729183%201035507776&name=7200%20RPM

you can find the driver here from gateway (emachine) directly http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?now=1&id=20755&uid=257970946#

fault in your data cable or jumper setting.

Get into the bios/setup of the server (hit either of f2 or f10 or del keys during start up) and somewhere you should have an option to set the ATA/SATA hd to legacy mode, that should do it.

Regards

Ah, ok. According to the manual, on page 1-23...here's what you need to do.

According to this page, you need to set onboard ide operate mode to "Enchanced Mode", and Enchanged mode support on to "Sata".