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| 714992 | 2008-10-26 22:57:00 | Hi, This morning I woke to find my computer not working. It is coming up with an error "Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter". It was running fine last night (built jun 2007 no problems too now), no hard drives are detected during post, I have tried pulling all cables out, swapping cables, different new cables. I can reach Bios where no hard drives are detected, swapping the hard drive cable from sata2 to sata is showing up in Bios, but still no boot. I have inserted the motherboard disk, no solution running recovery2. I have also taken out the cmos battery, still no solution. I have noticed that the bios clock has been reset to jan 2007 and that asus dtw*** is showing up in the master slave???? (don't have hardware by asus). Vista 32bit Motherboard gigabyte p35-s3 2 x 320GB western digital hard drives Anyone got any ideas, would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
nooam (14260) | ||
| 714993 | 2008-10-26 23:08:00 | If you took the battery out, it would reset the settings in the BIOS Did you reconfigure the settings in the BIOS, after you removed the battery? Then save the settings again? Also make sure the hdd thats got windows on it, is the bootdisk |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 714994 | 2008-10-26 23:17:00 | Thanks speedy, Your second point is indeed correct, after removing all the cables I was trying to boot off the second h.disk with no OS. Yay it boots, My World is Back in Order, How can I live without my comp!! I would be shattered. Not sure what fixed it?? So simple, many thanks speedy. |
nooam (14260) | ||
| 714995 | 2008-10-26 23:33:00 | No probs :) Thats what that error means. Since the other hdd with no OS on it changed to the bootdisk. After you removed the battery It couldnt boot, thats all Thats probably the default setting/s (because you removed the battery) In order to boot from a hdd, it has to have an operating system on it. Or system files at least And changing the other hdd, thats got the OS on it (to the bootdisk) would have made it boot. Thats why the clock went back to the BIOS's default date, you removed the battery Just remember to change the day/date/month/year to todays date, in the BIOS. Otherwise, it'll be wrong in Windows |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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