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| Thread ID: 141566 | 2016-01-12 20:48:00 | PC wont boot - disk bbot failure. | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1414375 | 2016-01-12 20:48:00 | I am trying to resurrect an 11 year old Gigabyte K8 Triton GA-K8NF-9. A few weeks ago it failed, wouldn't start etc. I removed the CMOS battery, GPU and hard drive thinking that the mb had failed and I should biff it. However, with time on my hands I thought I would give it another go. I have two IDE drives, one has an old Win7 install (80G) that works and a 200G that I have installed Win10 to. My problem is that I need a boot disk to activate the systems. I have been using Acronis Disk Director and it works fine. However if left to their own devices, both the 80G and 200G fail to boot. I get to Verifying DMI Pool then boot from CD. With the boot disk it carries on to boot the system. Without it goes to NVIDIA BOOT AGENT and then ends up with Disk Boot Failure. Bios boot order is correct even with HDD in first boot order. I have checked the manual and all BIOS settings seem ok. Should I forget this PC or does anyone have a work around? |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1414376 | 2016-01-12 21:02:00 | Is SATA mode set to AHCI or IDE? A lot of older MBs set to IDE by default, and if the windows install was done in AHCI it won't boot. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1414377 | 2016-01-12 21:08:00 | Try disabling every boot device except the hard drive you want to boot from, and make sure it is set as a master. If that is no good try running Easy BCD from windows once you boot into windows via the disk and restoring the windows 7 bootsector/ files using that (it's just easier than windows built in tools). You could also use it edit the boot menu to shorten the delay and remove any extra entires that are unneeded. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1414378 | 2016-01-12 22:30:00 | Yup disable netbook boot in the BIOS | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1414379 | 2016-01-12 22:52:00 | Fix the MBR. I would put the MBR on the Win7 drive, and fix it with Win10. I don't use Windows, but the steps use to involve booting their CD and running commands to fix it. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1414380 | 2016-01-13 00:01:00 | "I have two IDE drives" Possibly both have issues, given how old they are. If they are from another PC, then dont expect that Win to work on this one, it may do, it may not . Also, the bios's HD translation on the other PC could have be totally different (eg HP's bitshift) Also, IDE: make sure the jumper setting on the HD is correct : master/slave/auto: Set it to master & try each drive by itself Make sure the IDE cable is the right way around, on both drive & MB Stick in your install Win CD, go through the setup process & see if it actually sees the HD & the old win install , stop there or just do a new install. "A few weeks ago it failed, wouldn't start etc" You could just have a dud mother board Does "Acronis Disk Director" detect the HD's ? |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1414381 | 2016-01-13 00:20:00 | Or it could be as simple as the battery went flat and the boot options screwed up and you haven't found the right setting yet. Fairly common problem on older machines. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1414382 | 2016-01-13 06:18:00 | Or it could be as simple as the battery went flat and the boot options screwed up and you haven't found the right setting yet. Fairly common problem on older machines. That's true Dugimodo. I was caught that way - but being an unemployed student I had to find an affordable answer. $6 could possibly solve all your problems. |
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