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not detecting ide drives
Name: mankind Date: October 24, 2002 at 07:22:20 Pacific OS: windows xp pro CPU/Ram: 2.26 gb /256 ram
Comment:
this is on behalf of my son he has had this pc built for 2 months now and its worked ok now it wont go past the detecting ide drives screen he cant boot into the bios sreen or anything the primary was se to the hard drive and secondary was on the cd/rw cd drive is this just a motherboard failure or could it be that the ide cables or connection are faulty all connections are secure any help or ideas welcome as i cant get past this point peter
Name: JROB Date: October 24, 2002 at 08:13:49 Pacific
Reply:
He hasnt gone snooping inside the computer like I loved to do when I was young has he? Check all cables to be plugged in and plugged in correctly. If they are, try unplugging the cdrom and see if the error changes. Also might be a good idea to try someone elses hard drive on your motherboard.
Post back results.
JROB
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Response Number 2
Name: Sandor Date: October 24, 2002 at 08:49:45 Pacific
Reply:
Even if there is a problem with drives, cables, etc. you should be able to boot to a DOS prompt from a Win 98 or Win ME boot disk. If you need one - www.bootdisk.com
Good luck. Sandor
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Response Number 3
Name: mankind Date: October 24, 2002 at 09:20:28 Pacific
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thanks jrob disconnecting the cdrom allowed me to access the hard drive and to get access to the bios when i reconnect it again its no access again so what does this mean now peter
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