Here is the situation. My CPU fan, for some reason was rubbing against the heat sink making an insane grinding noise. Got in the computer and fixed that. Then, replaced everything (heat sink and fan on CPU), turned on computer, had an AGP seating problem. Fixed that. Then, (problems travel in three I guess), my computer wouldn't boot. I placed Win XP disk in and went to recovery console. SATA drives can't be found (Raid 0 format on those) but, computer would see my old IDE drive. Checked power, everything is good there. Checked connections - all is well there. Checked BIOS settings, nothing ever changed, but no hurt in checking - all is good there.
Anyone have any ideas? My next thought is to hook up to a SATA external case and/or get a SATA to IDE cable and see if drive is still working. It's very hard to tell if hard disk is spinning up (never been very easy). However, I'm assuming that it isn't spinning up. Any reason why these would just stop like that?
2007-04-10 13:01:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I am thinking along the lines of a driver problem. The onboard RAID setup utility that I can access as the computer is starting up is seeing the drives (shows me the serial number and the size of each of the disks). So, I'm going to assume for the time being that the mother board is "ruled out" (remember, I'm just assuming that for the time being).
So, to make a long story short, it seems as if Windows has "forgotten" how to see the drive which leads me to a driver issue. I'm just amazed that Windows would just lose that information like that.
Has anyone else ever experienced something like this where Windows just amazingly loses a driver like this?
2007-04-11 03:00:51 · update #1
did u have it unplugged and plug it into a different connector on the mobo? ... sounds like maybe a driver problem if that wasnt the case ... if ur on raid ... did u enter the raid utility at bootup and see what its lookin like?
2007-04-10 13:07:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure of the problem, but I may have a little help in determining if the drive is "spinning up".
Open the PC up and put it up where you can get to it. Use a fairly long screwdrive and put the tip against the case of the hard drive and the end of the handle compressed against the opening of your ear. This works very much like the stethoscope that a doctor uses and you should be able to hear it start spinning up when you turn the PC on, and/or spinning while its operating.
Sorry I'm no help with it being recognized.
Good luck.
2007-04-10 13:12:25 · answer #2 · answered by Dick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look in yuor mobo guide , i had an similar project device disk had to be on SATA a million or 2 and the coaching disk had to be on SATA 3 or 4 , after sorting this out all replaced into high quality worth a shot
2016-12-03 19:46:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sata Drive To IDE Controller Adapter
2007-04-10 13:15:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IMHO it might be MOBO problem....if you still have warranty..you might be lucky to check or email mobo manufacture for replacement
2007-04-10 13:58:32 · answer #5 · answered by steven25t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋