Need help with "no drives attached to the fasttrack controller, the bios is not insta

[peterwhite1]

hi, i am having problems with my pc, last time it worked fine was on the 20th of december

2011 and the last time it worked with problems (shutting down randomly) on the 23rd of

december 2011 and from 24 its been having problems with the drives "no drives attached to

the fasttrack controller, the BIOS is not installed". i had dual boot-in off which both

were windows 7 ultimate but on this day they were not booting up so i cleaned install

windows 7 again from the same disc and the screen got frozen at the final step so i

restarted the pc (great, now i have no OS installed) and all of a sudden my 2 drives wont

show up on the pc preventing from installing windows and the messages keep on showing. so

now i am stuck with a pc, i cant do anything on, ive tried disabling the onboard promising

controller but no luck, even tweaked with some other options still problem not solved.

here i have a link https://www.flickr.com/photos/72763803@N07/ with some pictures of my pc

and what happens when.

the pc does boot from windows 7 disc (when its in) but when at choose drive to install os

on, there are none (also shown in the images).

hope someone can help. if i have not provied any info please ask, look at the pictures, in

the link.

i am in a library asking this so i need my pc back asap, as i need to complete my work in a

week and got a lot of it.

note; i bought this pc off ebay, it had windows xp and was working fine even after i clean

installed windows 7, it was ok for an month or 2 but couple of days ago the problems

occurred. what i did last was uninstalled a logic camera and after the pc started to go

crazy. i also have included pictures of the 5 CD's i got with the pc.

thanks.

 

 

i searched nearly every and still found nothing

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Free PC help.

I am no expert but I am a little confused here, one picture I would have liked to see is the Windows 7 disk because I think you may be trying to install a 64 bit system onto a 32 bit computer and processor, it just isn't going to work if that is the case.

However, at the moment no hard drive is showing, so have you checked the connections? are they fully seated? To be sure of that pull the plug right out, check the pins are OK and not bent, then push the connector firmly back in. There are two drives, and though a rare thing but both drives may have failed. The other possibility may be power supply fault but I doubt it as most of the system does run.

The only thing left to try is to remove the RAM sticks if more than one, just leave one in and see what results you get, if no change swap to another stick.

If none of that helps, I will have to leave it for one of our other members who may have more knowledge, as RAID systems are not something I know much about.

 

Nev.