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| New mb,vga,ram,cpu. No cd or HD detec... |
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Brian F
| | Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 5:24 pm: | |
Its a giga-byte 7n400 with amd 2800+ cpu and kingston ram. Everything boots fine but bios cannot dectect my drives. Even when I go in and tell it to detect them it doesnt detect anything. I tried several ide cables and checked all connections. I dont think its the drives themselves since while the 6 gig hd is kinda old the cdr-rw is only a month old. When it says "detecting ise1 master/slave, etc." it gets nothing then wants a boot disk. Or I can enter bios and still cant get it to see my drives. |
Brian F
| | Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 6:01 pm: | |
Now I have made some headway. I swapped the hd and cr ide cables so that the hd is on the ide 2 master and the cd is on the ide 1 master. They are both detected but now I get a blue screen Stop error when it tries to start windows. Do I need to reformat the hd? Also, will it effect performance if I run the hd on ide2 since this is going to be a gaming machine. |
Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 9:00 pm: | |
You never said what Operating system you are using but seeing as you get a stop error I would assume win2k or XP. You can try a repair option by booting from the CD and start a reload in win2k, during the setup process it will look for previous windows installs and give you the option of repairing the existing copy, erasing the existing copy, or install a new copy. |
James C
| | Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 1:16 pm: | |
My situation is similar to the first poster's -- excepting the fact that I got impatient after 4 days without use of my computer, so that I thought using a Norton Anti-Virus 2001 recovery disks system recovery was the way to go.
Norton's recovery disks (I have since found, are for use only with Win 9x) asked me to restore the "boot block". And I complied. Only afterwards did I realise that the recovery diskette was writing Win ME stuff onto my hard drive. It was doing nothing for my Win 2000 Pro install.
But this activity did get me further along the "bootable recovery" sequence of actions. What ever software runs the show before the desktop displays requested that I put in a CD boot disk -- and CD means post-Win 9x/ME, and that meant I could now use my Win 2000 CD.
Horribly enough Win 2000's boot software reported that it COULD NOT FIND ANY HARD DISK DRIVES INSTALLED ON (YOUR) COMPUTER.
That's where my blood froze to ice, dude.
Questions:
1. Have I screwed up what could have been a straightforward hard disk software repair?
2. Have I completely screwed the "boot block" so that my hard disk drive (RAID 0) is now useless?
3. Have I lost 3 years worth of work, valuable documents, and sensitive information?
How can I make this situation go right? Is it possible for me to:
A. Check that "Any disk related hardware configuration is correct"?
B. Recover my hard disks and the valuable information they hold?
C. Repair what ever it is that needs repairing so that Win 2000 gets to my desktop?
Well guys, am I asking for miracles or is what's needed within the human realm of doability?
James
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Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 6:59 pm: | |
Winme and 98 use a different FAT than Win2K does by default that is fat32 for win98 and Me Vs NTFS natively for Win2K. If the RAID setup requires the RAID driver be reinstalled so Win2K can recognize the disks and restore the boot block than you can still run the repair option of Win2K. First when booting from the Win2K cd have your RAID driver handy on a floppy disk during the initial load process of Win2K press F6 when asked to do so to install third party RAID drivers. Insert the floppy and select the correct driver, than during the process select the repair option to restore a previous Win2K install and I hope that in the future you will back up all your data via CD or medium of your choice. |
Don O
| | Posted on Monday, October 4, 2004 - 7:07 am: | |
I'm having problems with my wife's computer. W2000, p4 2.0, 512 SDRAM. It will only boot myabe 1 time out of 20. I swapped memory, uplugged drives, and
reseated the chip, it still happens. I'm thinking it may be the motherboard, but when it does boot it runs fine. It appears to boot after I make a change, take out memory, reseat chip, etc. But it's random and difficult to reproduce. When it does not boot, I get no post messages and it hangs on the CDROM. I did take the CDROM out and it then hangs on the Hard Drive. Any ideas?? |
Don O
| | Posted on Monday, October 4, 2004 - 7:09 am: | |
srry. posted in wrong area DOH |
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