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BIOS not detecting hard drive
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Posted by: Dan1327
Recently, my computers power supply burned out. I replaced this today and reconnected all power cables. When I tried to boot, my hard drive was not detected and I am asked for a system disk. I tried running auto-detect in BIOS and it found nothing. Cd-rom and floppy are both working. I'd appreciate help with this as I am out of ideas. Thanks
~dan
Posted by: redwench
well, the possibilities are:
bad cable/not seated correctly
bad ide port on the mobo
dead hd/bad port
power connector is bad/poorly connected
Posted by: Dan1327
i did not disconnect any cables except power, and as of a week ago, until the power supply came in today, everything worked just fine. Is there any chance that what damaged the power supply also may have damaged one of these other things?
Posted by: redwench
oh sure. if a power supply poofs, it can cascade. it shouldnt, but it can.
Posted by: fibbi
If the power supply burnt out while you were using the computer, it's quite possible that it fried something or other. This narrows it down to the idea or the harddrive. Try plugging a cd rom drive or something of the like into the ide port that the hard drive is currently on, and see if it detects that. If you have a cd rom drive that is detected, you might also want to try booting with the HD in the ide port that the cd rom drive was connected to. Once you do this, the results could be one of the following:
1-The problem stays with the hard drive
2-The problem stays with the ide port.
Hopefully, knowing this, you should know what to replace (ie, either your motherboard or your hard drive). If the problem is in ide and you have an open ide slot somewhere else, you shouldd definately try that port before shelling out and buying a new mobo though.
Hope that helps,
-fibbi
Posted by: Dan1327
alright thanks a lot... at least i can diagnose the problem this way
Posted by: Dan1327
turns out the hard drives fried...  thanks for your help guys
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