Hard Drive And CD Burner Found By BIOS But Not Windows
Aug 30, 2005
I recently got myself another hard drive, that I wanted to install in my computer. From before, the computer contained a hard drive and a CD-burner. I do not have instructions on how to set the jumpers on the new hard drive to make it master or slave, so I had to try my way. I figured how to make it master, so the present configuration is that this new hard drive is secondary master, and the CD-burner is secondary slave. BIOS recognizes this, but unfortunately Windows does not seem to find any of the devices on the secondary controller with this configuration.
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Nov 4, 2009
I'm running a pc with a 975xbx board and an e6600 that has worked fine for 2 years plus. A couple months ago i replaced my computer case, power supply, and got some new storage hard drives, but my RAM, mobo, cpu, and optical drives stayed the same.I was running windows xp fine for this whole time....and then a couple days ago as I was surfing the web, the computer just shut off spontaneously. no warning, no nothing, just black screen and the computer was off.Now, when I start up, I'll get to the windows startup logo before I get a 0x00000007e blue screen crash.In BIOS, my hard drives, RAM, etc are picked up fine. Just for kicks i moved some ram around, dropped to one stick, unhooked the optical drives, yet the problem persists.Now, if i throw in my windows xp install CD and try to repair or just reinstall, it doesn't find the drive at all. but the bios does.
If i take a new formatted hard drive and insert it, the xp install again doesnt find it.I have 2 raid controllers on my intel board, and the floppy disks for both, but when I boot the raid controller screens pop up fine and recognize drives prior to the windows logo. If i throw my install CD in, however, and hit F6 to go to the raid controller install, the xp cd can't seem to read my floppy disks, as if they aren't even there. but the floppy drive light is on, powered, and the cables are plugged in.This is just really confusing, as if my computer just doesn't read anything but the CD drive.I'm at a loss. I'm willing to just do a clean install of windows on a formatted hard drive, but the windows CD install program won't detect the new drive (it is low-level formatted).I'm using XP professional and it's a full install CD, not just recovery.
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Aug 20, 2009
Ok, I'm stumped with this problem. My pc was working fine, I believe my mother may have downloaded a virus but avast didn't automatically stop it so I don't think that would have anything to do with the problem. She shut the computer down for the night and the next day went to get on and when it starts up after it shows a dell splash screen saying push F2 for setup and F12 for Boot loader. it goes to a black screen that looks like some thing you ssee when the computer doesn't have an operating system. So I rebooted and hit F2, it sad entering setup and went straight to the black screen. It would not let me into bios. I decided that it may be the hard drive so I took it downstarirs to my other pc and plugged it in an I was able to browse the files on ubuntu. I thought I would test something so I grabbed the Ubuntu Live cd and put it in the computer upstairs, this time when I pushed F2 it went into bios, I set it to boot from cd and restarted, Ubuntu loaded and I am currently using it to type this post. the computer is running off of the Live cd only there is no hard drive plugged into it. Before I typed this but after the first time i got the computer to boot with ubuntu I reinstalled the hard drive. and with the computer still set to boot from cd first it went to the black screen and i could no longer get into bios untill i removed the hard drive.
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I have tried replacing the power supply-no change.I've tried unhooking cd-rom, floppy, replace ram & everything remains unchanged.Bios never recognizes a hard drive. I've tried several known good hard drives and the original hard drive works in another machine. It starts POST & I get HP splash then back to NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND, It doesn't find the CD rom drive either. What might this be related to? I've replace hard drive cable, floppy cable. The only cable I haven't replaced it the cd-rom drive.
The hard drive works as a slave in another computer. I am running virus scan and spyware on. But, why won't it work in the other computer? I'm thinking its somehow related to the bios and the fact that it cannot see the drive in the bios. I don't find anywhere in this particular bios where I can try to auto recognize the drives
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On my first attempt to boot, the hard drive is not detecte On the second attempt, the bios always sees the hard drive and boot up is normal.I have tested the Seagate hard drive with the Seagate hard drive support tool and all is error free.This is consistent. I can't find anything in the bios where this would be switchable.
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