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850GB trouble shooting - please help
This is the sequence of events that happened with my 850GB MB.
1. Installed a new PCI based TV Tuner card. Rebooted into XP, SP2. 2. While installing the drivers, the machine frooze. 3. When I force rebooted, the machine does not boot any longer. 4. Here is what I see: No longer see the Red/Blue Intel logo screen during boot up. I see only a cursor. After about a minute with the cursor, it gives 2 beeps. It shows only this on the screen - "System Halted: Drive not ready". I have changed the CMOS battery to a new one too, no use. The Harddisk by itself is fine, when tested on another system. Even cannot boot from a bootable CD anymore. I am able to go into the setup screen. Inside the setup, I see no information about the HDDs. Inside the setup, the processor, ram is shown as fine. Any clue what could be the issue? Do 2 beeps mean that some or all of the RDRAMs have gone bad? I am confused by the "System halted: Drive not ready" error, because the HDD works fine in another system. Any help would be highly appreciated. |
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850GB trouble shooting - please help
Have you tried removing the card and booting?
Yes, there was no change. Its really strange and the worst part is I am unable to do any diagnosis as the HDD works by itself. Also, acutally, I had 2 HDDs, both were working fine. Now whether I connect either of them or both, I continue to get the same issue. I have tried replacing the cables which connect the HDD to the MB, no change with that too. I will try to remove the memory slots (2 at a time), replace it with the contuinity RIMMs and see. I am not sure if it will help as the error message is pointing to a HDD error. On Nov 21, 1:58 pm, "Jeff Gaines" wrote: On 21/11/2006 in message .com wrote: 1. Installed a new PCI based TV Tuner card. Rebooted into XP, SP2. 2. While installing the drivers, the machine frooze.Have you tried removing the card and booting? -- Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK |
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850GB trouble shooting - please help
Perhaps the disk controller has died.
You mean to say the disk controller on the MB? The HDD works fine on another system, though. I tried replacing 2 of the 4 memory cards with the contuinity RIMMS, still the same problem (the system correctly detects the new lower memory on board). This is the sequence (again, if it helps): 1. Power switched on. 2. I see 3 lines on the screen from the NVIDIA Graphics card (used to happen earlier also). 3. Cursor keeps blicking on the first line of the above 3 lines displayed. 4. At this point, it used to show the big Red/Blue Intel logo, this no longer happens. 5. Goes to another screen where it shows the MB details, Processor and memory details. 6. Nothing happens for about 30 seconds, 7. 2 beeps. 8. Quickly see 2 messages, CMOS battery low and CMOS something time, date. 9. Goes to the final screen with just one line - "Drive not ready- System Halted". I did change the CMOS battery to a new one, but I dont know why it says CMOS battery low. Any clues with this new set of data? Also, where can I find the details on flashing the BIOS of this MB? Thanks in advance for all the help on this. |
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