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Where to begin... I have an Abit NF7-S v2.0. SATA has worked fine since the day I got the board. I don't use RAID, I just use a single 180GB SATA drive on SATA channel 1, and a 300GB IDE drive with the Serillel function on SATA channel 2.
My machine is approaching 4 years old and I've had to swap out the graphics card because it broke, so I decided to swap the whole machine to a new case. At some point whilst doing that, my SATA drive stopped booting. It's the only one of my now four hard drives which contains a Windows installation, and I'd rather not format and reinstall. There's no REASON why it shouldn't boot, but now when I power up, I get a mixture of 'NTLDR is Missing' and 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK...' etc, depending on what I have plugged in hard drive wise and what boot orders I select in BIOS. I've updated the BIOS to the latest revision (27) and I've tried all manner of 'clutching at straws' modifications, from unplugging all my other hard drives and peripherals, to plugging the SATA drive in via a PCI SATA card, to trawling the forums and finding people with similar problems who say to make certain changes in the BIOS. Change the boot order, disable the SATA RAID ROM, etc etc.
The problem is, nothing has worked so far, and all of the suggestions seem to conflict. One person said 'set USB mouse and keyboard to BIOS' while another said 'set USB mouse and keyboard to OS'. Somebody suggested disabling APIC, another said enable it. Then somebody talked about EXT-P2P Discard time (whatever the HECK that is...) being set to 1ms or 30us. Man, somebody even seemed to fix their problem by removing their floppy drive!
What I'm trying to get at is - nothing has changed. My SATA was working yesterday, but it won't boot today. The only possible thing I can think of is that the on-board SATA has been a bit touchy in the past. I remember at one point, it would cause my XP Boot image to 'hang' while Windows was booting, or if I booted and then connected my IDE drive through SATA Serillel, Windows would freeze. I'm not sure if this was a contributing factor, but right now it's just like my PC can't even SEE my SATA drive (it finds all three IDE drives okay).
I BEG YOU FOR ASSISTANCE! Very Happy I'm close to tears over this. Well maybe not TEARS, but you get me.... I DON'T want to reformat my drive if at all possible, but I've tried reinstalling XP and THAT won't even see my drive. Heylp!! Heylp!!!!
My machine is approaching 4 years old and I've had to swap out the graphics card because it broke, so I decided to swap the whole machine to a new case. At some point whilst doing that, my SATA drive stopped booting. It's the only one of my now four hard drives which contains a Windows installation, and I'd rather not format and reinstall. There's no REASON why it shouldn't boot, but now when I power up, I get a mixture of 'NTLDR is Missing' and 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK...' etc, depending on what I have plugged in hard drive wise and what boot orders I select in BIOS. I've updated the BIOS to the latest revision (27) and I've tried all manner of 'clutching at straws' modifications, from unplugging all my other hard drives and peripherals, to plugging the SATA drive in via a PCI SATA card, to trawling the forums and finding people with similar problems who say to make certain changes in the BIOS. Change the boot order, disable the SATA RAID ROM, etc etc.
The problem is, nothing has worked so far, and all of the suggestions seem to conflict. One person said 'set USB mouse and keyboard to BIOS' while another said 'set USB mouse and keyboard to OS'. Somebody suggested disabling APIC, another said enable it. Then somebody talked about EXT-P2P Discard time (whatever the HECK that is...) being set to 1ms or 30us. Man, somebody even seemed to fix their problem by removing their floppy drive!
What I'm trying to get at is - nothing has changed. My SATA was working yesterday, but it won't boot today. The only possible thing I can think of is that the on-board SATA has been a bit touchy in the past. I remember at one point, it would cause my XP Boot image to 'hang' while Windows was booting, or if I booted and then connected my IDE drive through SATA Serillel, Windows would freeze. I'm not sure if this was a contributing factor, but right now it's just like my PC can't even SEE my SATA drive (it finds all three IDE drives okay).
I BEG YOU FOR ASSISTANCE! Very Happy I'm close to tears over this. Well maybe not TEARS, but you get me.... I DON'T want to reformat my drive if at all possible, but I've tried reinstalling XP and THAT won't even see my drive. Heylp!! Heylp!!!!
but i think ive found help to mine lol, gl with urs