WLSTR Posted February 9, 2013 Posted February 9, 2013 My system crashed. None of my hard drives boot. the USB, Floppy and CD drives boot. I am running XP Pro on a Asus mother board A8N32-SLI-DELUXE. Athlon two 2.2 ghz cpu's with 3 gb ram Can any one tell me why this happened and how to fix it? Thank you in advance :confused: Justin Quote
KenB Posted February 10, 2013 Posted February 10, 2013 Hi My system crashed. Do you get any error messages ? If so - what ? None of my hard drives boot. How many drives do you have? How many have an operating system on them? Are you dual booting ? How are the drives connected ? the USB, Floppy and CD drives boot. I don't understand this statement. Do you mean that they appear active when checked by the BIOS or you put a disk in and the system wil lboot off that? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
WLSTR Posted February 10, 2013 Author Posted February 10, 2013 HDD NOT LOADING Hi Do you get any error messages ? If so - what ? NONE [/color] How many drives do you have? 7 How many have an operating system on them? 1 Are you dual booting ? How are the drives connected ? 7 I don't understand this statement. Do you mean that they appear active when checked by the BIOS or you put a disk in and the system wil lboot off that? Will not boot at all! They are not detected by bios. Quote
KenB Posted February 10, 2013 Posted February 10, 2013 You have 7 independent hard drives - impressive. How do you connect them to the motherboard ? Are these IDE drives or SATA ? From your m/b specs you have 4 SATA connections on the m/b 1 IDE 1 Floppy You have 7 hard drives / 1 floppy drive / and a DVD drive Are all of these connected at the same time ? They are not detected by bios. If this refers to the USB / Floppy / CD ............you said they could "boot" in your first post. I am totally confused. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
WLSTR Posted February 10, 2013 Author Posted February 10, 2013 You have 7 independent hard drives - impressive. How do you connect them to the motherboard ? MB PORTS Are these IDE drives or SATA ? From your m/b specs you have 4 SATA connections on the m/b 1 IDE 1 Floppy You have 7 hard drives / 1 floppy drive / and a DVD drive 2 1TB SATA 1 306 GB(c DRIVE) 1 750 GB SATA 2 750 IDE DRIVES 1 FLOPPY 1 CD DRIVE 1 1TB USB EXTERNAL DRIVE. Are all of these connected at the same time ? YES If this refers to the USB / Floppy / CD ............you said they could "boot" in your first post. I am totally confused. I was doing my e-mail when the system crashed without warning of any kind. NO error messages. Quote
KenB Posted February 10, 2013 Posted February 10, 2013 OK - I have the picture now. Disconnect ALL drives apart from the hard drive that you use to boot up from. ( The XP drive ) You can simply unplug the power and data cables from the drives. Take the external drive out too. Disconnect the CD and the Floppy Drive too. We need to eliminate them from the system to confirm that one of them is not the problem. Try booting up now. When you switch on .........do you get any beeps from the system? one is normal - any more let me know the sequence please ( 3 long ......... or 1 long 2 short etc. ) This is assuming that the system used to beep once when it was OK. Did the system used to beep once ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
WLSTR Posted February 11, 2013 Author Posted February 11, 2013 Still will not detect any drives.It has 1 beep when starting up. Tried re loading my bios but it did not take it either. have 3072mb ram it loaded 1024mb. https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif Quote
KenB Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 Hi have 3072mb ram it loaded 1024mb. Looks like you may have 2GB and 1GB modules. Take the 2GB out completely. Leave the 1 GB in. Try booting with just the one module in place. Again - leave the other drives disconnected. The fact that you are getting 1 POST beep is good - this indicates that the self test procedure has completed successfully. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
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