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| Thread ID: 47894 | 2004-08-08 10:00:00 | BIOS Problems? No boot devices | willie_M (5608) | Press F1 |
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| 259567 | 2004-08-09 09:51:00 | >Is this drive already formatted? >If you look at page 47 of the mobo manual, it has a comment about HDD's that have already been formatted on previous older machines might not have the parameters detected correctly. It suggests that the drive parameters be entered manually under User Type HDD. You should find the correct parameters printed on a label on the HDD. See if this helps. Interesting... you see this hard drive was out of the catpee machine and someone tried to format the harddrive after the cat peed in the computer. Each time it would stop at 74%... Will have to shut my PC down and reformat the baaaaaastard. Or can I wipe it with a subwoofer magnet? And the power's hooked up so i'll minus the cddrive from the equation before I do anything else. |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 259568 | 2004-08-10 01:11:00 | There is no such thing as a 74% complete format. Either the disk has been formatted, or it hasn't. The essential tables which make it usable are written when the whole disk has been formatted successfully.. Yours hasn't been formatted. It does help people if you give information like that right at the start. Did it not occur to you that there was something wrong with the disk? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 259569 | 2004-08-10 04:36:00 | ohhh, my bad... sorry guys. So it not being formatted being the problem... hmmm, I'll remember that... I thought that would have only been a problem for windows.... |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 259570 | 2004-08-11 00:30:00 | OK, i formatted the drive but it still did not show up in the BIOS.. neither does the CDROM drive. I tried booting knoppix but it just says, press a key to reboot, or boot disk failure as you would expect for something that has nothing to boot from.... I have checked the cables, the jumpers, and the location of the aforementioned feline.... What could it be? Is this mobo forked? |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 259571 | 2004-08-11 01:31:00 | > forgot to say I killed the power and removed the cmos battery for about 5 mins... Plug the computer in but have the switch off, remove the battery and leave out overnight or for at least eight hours. Replace battery, fire up computer, go into BIOS setup and select the Auto-Config option for it to redetect your hard drive, etc. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 259572 | 2004-08-11 11:10:00 | Its working? I don't know what happened... I fired it up after doing what you guys said, having already tried doing those things before and now it works. Pays to double check huh? Thanks for all your help dudes and dudettes..... willie_M |
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