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Thread ID: 54438 2005-02-12 04:20:00 Bios cant find hard drive SATA after computer crash Canto (7280) Press F1
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324374 2005-02-12 04:20:00 Hi, can someone please help me?
After leaving my com for around 3 days i opened up mutiple programs and in the mean time was unrar-ing a file, in the middle of the process my computer freezed and i had to manual press the reset button on the computer, after i restart windows XP when to a grey progress bar something like scandisk i guessed but i am not sure since it has no writing and i naver seen it b4 on XP, but it got stuck so i pressed restart again, this time it went to the grey progress bar too and then start to load windows up normally but then u took ages and nothing was moving so i restarted my computer once more in the middle of loading and then my bios just got stuck at decting my drive, so i restarted it and then same thing happens so i waited this time and after around 5 mins or so there was none dected and the message "CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded" F1 to continue I pressed F1 and it loads up my on board network and restarts the computer after a few times it no longer shows "CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded" just a 5 min wait and said none detected and restarts the computer, with out letting me boot with cd or a drive. and the hard drive can be detected. :confused: when i took my harddrive off it would let me boot with cd / a drive without it auto restarting.

my hard drive is SATA Barracuda 7200.7 200 Gbytes model ST3200822AS
my mother board is MSI K8N Neo2 Ms-7025 (v1.X) ATX Mainboard
NVIDIA nForce 3 Ultra Chipset
Platform: windows XP SP2

is there anyway to fix this problem or some how extract the files from the hard drive, if need more info plz ask away

THANKS
Canto (7280)
324375 2005-02-12 05:10:00 If you can get into the BIOS, set whatever up again. (Is the SATA onboard on the motherboard)?? If so, configure it again in the BIOS.

Save the settings in the BIOS and reboot again. See what happens
Speedy Gonzales (78)
324376 2005-02-12 05:13:00 ya the SATA is on the mother board, and i tried to reset the setting to the factory defults by using the reset jumper but it still doesnt work, is there any special settings that i need to set for my SATA to work? Canto (7280)
324377 2005-02-12 05:31:00 Go into the BIOS and reset the settings there.

Also make sure the power connection and data connection are BOTH connected to the SATA hdd as well. It may have come out.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
324378 2005-02-12 05:47:00 i tried resetting in BIOs it still doesnt dectect the hard drive after about 5 minutes of detecting and loads up the on board gigabyte lan and auto restarts, i am woundering y does this happen , normally doesnt it just look for a bootable device if there is no hard drive present.... y does it restart when my hard drive is attached :confused: :confused: :confused: Canto (7280)
324379 2005-02-12 05:49:00 Dont know then. If u were in Auckland, I could check it out for you. And see what the prob is with it. Speedy Gonzales (78)
324380 2005-02-12 05:51:00 oh :dogeye: thanks anyway :o and btw i am in auckland :p i will see how things turn out 1st then thanks for u offer too Canto (7280)
324381 2005-02-12 05:55:00 Where? I'm in Mt eden...Where r u?? Speedy Gonzales (78)
324382 2005-02-12 05:58:00 Mt Roskill, i hope some knwos how to fix this or know how to extrat the data Canto (7280)
324383 2005-02-12 06:01:00 Ah ok. Not too far away from here. The only other thing that maybe wrong, is something has blown on the motherboard. The post screen comes up tho doesnt it?? Where it tells u whats on the motherboard etc??

BUT doesnt get as far as loading windows itself? Or does it crash when it gets into windows??
Speedy Gonzales (78)
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