Biostar tpower I45 bios problem

naffers · 2 May 2009 at 08:50

ok guys im having a problem with the bios. when i go to configure the SATA devices. it shows that my optical and hard drive are present but when i try to boot a cd in the optical drive nothing happens. i will get pics up in a minute
any advice will help a lot thanks

95thrifles · 2 May 2009 at 10:05

Have you set the boot priority?

naffers · 2 May 2009 at 10:06

ok its coming up with no hard disk detected even tho it detects the hdd in the bios

edit ive set the cd drive first then hdd

OVC · 2 May 2009 at 10:07

naffers said:
ok guys im having a problem with the bios. when i go to configure the SATA devices. it shows that my optical and hard drive are present but when i try to boot a cd in the optical drive nothing happens. i will get pics up in a minute
any advice will help a lot thanks

Simple question? If you are an owner of a SAGATE HDD with the firmware of SD15 then, this would be the reason why the HDD has failed to load becausee this was reported by SEGATE a couple of months ago. I had to send all my three hard drives back to Segate and then replaced them free of charge.

Go here to RMA you HDD back to SEGATE (only if your firmware is SD15) https://store.seagate.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SgCheckWarrantyView?langId=-1&krypto=lZV0ifY90uy6PUbeNYxmlJ%2FeOamQTU8vX%2FyVcskL7Ra8YMmV34QjfaXbpO6NlvwR%2BTEC3tVdnhJ0%0AtmaQWKyGUNscSUkjrgNNSrX6sZWZFxPTN7qiNOvGlw%3D%3D&ddkey=SgSSORedirect

1. What cables are you using for the HDD...?
2. Have you tried using the SATA cables that came with the motherboard (only if you are using third party cables)
3. Have you tried plugging into a different SATA port?
4. have you tried another HDD
5. Boot priority is this set correctly?

naffers · 2 May 2009 at 10:12

im using a samsung using sata cables that came with mobo and they are in the first sata port
im not sure what to put 4 sata#1 its either ide, raid or ahci

OVC · 2 May 2009 at 10:17

Put this in the second port and then startup the system and go into the BIOS and see if the HDD is showing. Also check the boot priority because if this is not set then it will not boot unless you are using the Windows CD...?