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| Thread ID: 115313 | 2011-01-12 20:51:00 | Desktop boot prob - please read | blanco (11336) | Press F1 |
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| 1169342 | 2011-01-14 01:24:00 | Thanks, Agent. I get your point but I have a gut feeling the prob lies elsewhere. When I find a solution I will post it on this forum. I assume you already did this but have you tried a new SATA cable in case the old one is broken? What is the current status of the old hard drive? Does it still work? Have you tried it on another PC? Looks like someone in another forum fixed the AHCI BIOS not installed error by going into recovery console and fixing the master boot record (with fixmbr command) "AHCI BIOS not installed" is not an error. It's an informational message shown on some motherboards when the SATA controller is enabled but no drives are detected. It just means that the board did not load the SATA\AHCI option ROM. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1169343 | 2011-01-14 01:27:00 | Well yer I know some people say it means nothing, but one person fixed it somehow by doing the previous post | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1169344 | 2011-01-14 01:30:00 | Where is this post? I would say whoever posted it didn't post all the facts If the drive was not detected, then he wouldn't have been able to run FIXMBR in the first place, for a start. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1169345 | 2011-01-14 02:04:00 | Since posting the issue no hard drive is showing up at normal boot. BIOS setup display reads: > ESATA 1 NONE > SATA 1 NONE > ESATA 2 NONE > SATA 3 NONE >. Eeek. Why did you switch off with the power switch? I suspect horrible things may have happened to the MB - although switching off like that normally may only cause Windows corruption. What is the PSU you have? I'd be changing it, I don't care what the voltages say........ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1169346 | 2011-01-14 02:33:00 | Search for this error in google, you'll find it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1169347 | 2011-01-14 04:06:00 | I always close down using windows but on this occasion used the power button because the PC had frozen and I was unable to close normally. The PSU is FSP Fortran Source model FSP300-60 GTN. What Agent has pointed out re "AHCI BIOS NOT INSTALLED" is worth noting as it will save me going on a wild goose chase for absent or corrupt Bios. The recovery disc does not run properly so I cannot access fixmbr from it. Over the next few days I'll get a 3.5 ext enclosure and have a look at both old and new drives using this laptop. I'm expecting them to be ok. I will also do a netsearch for possible fix. No hurry, because all my progs and files are on a 2.5 ext connected to this laptop but obviously I want to fix my desktop as it is only 2yrs old. Thanks Guys. |
blanco (11336) | ||
| 1169348 | 2011-01-14 05:37:00 | I assume whatever caused the freeze is probably related to the fault you have now. It's probably worth noting that while FSP make some pretty good PSUs (design-wise), they sometimes use rather average capacitors in them, although as only 2 years old it may be just fine. Check out the forum at www.badcaps.net if you want to know more about this. |
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