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Hard Drive wont boot.

IceDigger

IceDigger

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I just assembled a new computer and am having a very odd problem. I cannot get the hard drive to boot.

Parts:

Abit KV7 Motherboard
Seagate 80gb SATA drive
256MB Geil pc3200 RAM
AMD 2500+ cpu
Windows XP

I got windows xp to copy files only after pressing the "f6" key and loading up the sata disks included with the motherboard. After windows finishes copying files and restarts the computer it will not detect the hard drive. I can do the same thing over again though like press f6 to reload sata drivers but after that first restart its like it doesnt even think the hard drive is there. Any ideas?

All these are new parts. I have also tried it with another SATA drive and it does the same thing.
 
i got a problem like that with one of my computers i install wdows and it boots the first time but then when you restart the computer it gets past the loading screen and then the screen go's black and just sits there.
 
Check jumper settings on the drive and boot/order settings in the BIOS? SATA cables seem easier to work with than IDE, so maybe hook it up to another rig and test the HD?
 
Originally posted by IceDigger
There are no jumpers on the hard drive.
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Good! Less to go wrong :D

It sounds more like BIOS boot order problem anyway. . . but, I am making all these assumptions on IDE type drives, I would not know about SATA specific complications -- if it is an SATA problem, RTM and hope its in there.
 
Depending on the type of BIOS you have, have you checked in the settings to enable On-board SATA? I assume you have a similar version of Phoenix BIOS, since you also have an Abit motherboard. Or are you using an independent controller card? That might pose problems.

If that's not enabled, you won't be able to set the hard drive as a possible boot device.

Dark Assassin
 
Yeah looks like you don't have the SATA in the boot order. The first boot is from the CD (which is in the order by default) and since it won't boot on the second time, it isn't looking at your SATA drive at all.
 
First of all, make sure your SATA cable is in the first sata port.
Second, make sure in bios you have bootable add-in device enabled, and then make sure the OnChipe SATA is enabled.

Im currently having a problem with my mainboard as well, but after it gives me the "windows did not load screen" it goes blank, and my mainboard isnt detecting my cd-rom drive...

But i was hacing your exact problem when i first got my mainboard.
 
First of all, make sure your SATA cable is in the first sata port.
Second, make sure in bios you have bootable add-in device enabled, and then make sure the OnChipe SATA is enabled.

Thats the first thing I did and I double checked it too.
 
Found out the problem. Stupid me did not clear the cmos with the jumper to reset the bios when I flashed it.
 
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