Hello everyone, as you can see i am new here, and just wondered if i could get a little help from you guys.
First for my PC spec(custom built 18 months back):
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
CPU: Intel core 2 duo e6300
RAM: 3GB Geil 800MHz Dual channel
Graphics card: ATI Radeon x1950Pro 256MB
Hard Drive: Wester digital 320GB SATA
DVD Drive: ASUS IDE
Now i will fill you in on what has exactly happened over the past day or so.
Yesterday i went to start my computer as normal, expecting it to load up properly. For some reason it just stayed on the bios screen for ages, and the computer didnt even respond to keystrokes, so i got a little concerned.
I tried rebooting several times, but will no avail. So i decided to disconnected all peripherals, usb drives etc, so that all that was connected was the monitor, but still the same thing was happening.
I then thought there might be a problem with the hard drive, as i have heard of hard drives failing all of a sudden in the past, so i opened the pc up and disconnected the hard drive. I then started the computer again, and found that if i could get into the bios by pressing delete (keyboard started to respond).
Once i got into the bios i found that the only device connected was not detected (DVD drive), so i could not even boot into a live operating system to access the internet.
I then fiddled around with the computer for 2 or 3 hours experimenting, and generally trying to fault find, by basically taking everything apart, and putting it back together again, whilst listening carefully to the relevant internal beeps to see if the motherboard detects each component added stage by stage.
So i got to the point where i had basically built the system again and returned to step one. I decided this time to just plug in the hard drive and no other device. When i did this, for some unknown reason, it got past the bios screen and then came up with 'Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter'.
As the motherboard doesnt detect any drive connected how can i possibly insert the system disc?
I have also tried:
Plugging in another DVD drive
Connecting another Hard drive (IDE)
Leaving 1 stick of RAM in, instead of 4
Trying to foce hard drive detection
Reseating CPU
Taking mobo out and testing
I am really baffled as what to now, i have tried almost everything and have reached the conclusion that its either the motherboard or hard drive. If there is anyone on here that could possibly point me in the right direction on what to do from here i would be greatful.
Cheers.
First for my PC spec(custom built 18 months back):
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
CPU: Intel core 2 duo e6300
RAM: 3GB Geil 800MHz Dual channel
Graphics card: ATI Radeon x1950Pro 256MB
Hard Drive: Wester digital 320GB SATA
DVD Drive: ASUS IDE
Now i will fill you in on what has exactly happened over the past day or so.
Yesterday i went to start my computer as normal, expecting it to load up properly. For some reason it just stayed on the bios screen for ages, and the computer didnt even respond to keystrokes, so i got a little concerned.
I tried rebooting several times, but will no avail. So i decided to disconnected all peripherals, usb drives etc, so that all that was connected was the monitor, but still the same thing was happening.
I then thought there might be a problem with the hard drive, as i have heard of hard drives failing all of a sudden in the past, so i opened the pc up and disconnected the hard drive. I then started the computer again, and found that if i could get into the bios by pressing delete (keyboard started to respond).
Once i got into the bios i found that the only device connected was not detected (DVD drive), so i could not even boot into a live operating system to access the internet.
I then fiddled around with the computer for 2 or 3 hours experimenting, and generally trying to fault find, by basically taking everything apart, and putting it back together again, whilst listening carefully to the relevant internal beeps to see if the motherboard detects each component added stage by stage.
So i got to the point where i had basically built the system again and returned to step one. I decided this time to just plug in the hard drive and no other device. When i did this, for some unknown reason, it got past the bios screen and then came up with 'Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter'.
As the motherboard doesnt detect any drive connected how can i possibly insert the system disc?
I have also tried:
Plugging in another DVD drive
Connecting another Hard drive (IDE)
Leaving 1 stick of RAM in, instead of 4
Trying to foce hard drive detection
Reseating CPU
Taking mobo out and testing
I am really baffled as what to now, i have tried almost everything and have reached the conclusion that its either the motherboard or hard drive. If there is anyone on here that could possibly point me in the right direction on what to do from here i would be greatful.
Cheers.
