Have a Western Digital WD800 SATA HDD Master (w/XP on it), and a Seagate 120 GB HDD as slave(for storage). Has been working fine, then a few days ago, I went to turn the machine on and got a checksum error. Got rid of the Checksum error, now getting ERROR LOADING OS. Checked the BIOS, and the WD HDD doesn't show up. Used XP CD to get DOS prompt, and the WD HDD doesn't show there either. No installations or significant changes have been made to the system in the past week. At first, I was thinking the HDD went bad, but not sure, since the problem came about very suddenly. I was looking for answers or suggestions, and came across a posting of a somewhat similar situation, and it indicated that a bad CMOS battery could be the culprit. Is this worth looking into? How much do CMOS batteries cost?
2006-11-11 15:29:11 · 5 answers · asked by bluecollarguytx 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
CMOS batteries are quite inexpensive, much cheaper than a new drive. However, they rarely fail. When I read the title of your question, I thought jumpers, but it it was working, that's not it. Most likely the onboard drive controller has failed.
2006-11-11 15:49:21 · answer #1 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cmos battery is not expensive. should be below a dollor.
Try to change the positions, ie swap the data cables and see.
2006-11-11 15:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check that both the power and data cables are OK (and totally plugged in).
If the battery failed, your time and date will be way off.
2006-11-11 16:44:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"that is not booting" is rather extremely commonly used. Does BIOS inform you that there's no boot partition? i assume it sees the problematical disk because you may boot off it. attempt toggling SATA from IDE to ACPI mode.
2016-11-29 01:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by bartow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HDD problems are often quite sudden. I'm 99.99% sure your harddrive has bit the big one.
2006-11-11 18:06:55 · answer #5 · answered by Mustafa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋