Boot issue

GhostlyPea

GhostlyPea

GhostlyPea

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Hi guys, issue with my brothers PC.

He was using it for about 2 hours today, went way for about 30 mins, came back and the system had hung. He re-booted and now the PC won't (at least it seems) boot from the HDD and it seems it isn't detecting it. the message on the screen is along the lines of "verifying DMI pool data...Boot from CD".

PC specs:

Athlon 3000+
Gigabyte k8Nf-9 mobo
1 Gb OCUK value RAM
Seagate Baracuda (SATA)
CD RW + FDD
Tagan PSU
X800 XT

I have re-seated the hard drive and checked the cables, everything seems to be powering up fine and POST isn't giving any errors.
Seeing as nothing has been altered im assuming HDD failure (the system has always run fairly hot), but any help to confirm or deny this would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

- Pea0n
 
havn't tried wither yet (eating tea ;) ) but just wondering (as ive never dealt with this particular situation befoe) is the XP disk also the boot disk i can run this lot from, or will I have to create a bootable floppy?

- Pea0n
 
ok forget my above post. I am i nthe recovery console at the moment and have run check disk. it has repeated the line "CHKDSK is performing additional scanning or recovery..." about 11 times, each time with a % counter before it prints the line. Now it seems to have frozen on the 11th "line". Any idea if its smegged or if its found a bad sector or somethign and I need to re-boot?

- Pea0n
 
ok this is peaons brother here, he is at work, anyway, how do i get the PC to run CHKDSK /f when i boot it? do i need to do something to get it to dos to do that?

(Please forgive me i am a novice at PC repair) :)
 
pea0ns brother here again

i have been speaking to someone and they said "what use is a chkdsk if the drive isnt even being registered/found"? i am totally confused, anyone help would be most greatly appreciated!!
 
ok just looked, and i am going to say no 'cos i can not see anything with my HDD's name on it. all i can see is "boot from HDD, boot from floppy, boot from CD" etc
thats all.
 
ok so on further playing, i put in my windows CD

i get to the screen to try and get into the recovery console or what ever its called. repair console?

and it wont load it due to there being no HDD's present. i unplugged my USB HDD which i got about 3 days ago, so that means that the internal hdd is fried?
 
oh yeah, my brother does know a lot more than me lol, i am a novice, but he is at work untill later today, so i thought i would try and get it working.

I got into the cmos setup screen, pressing ctrl+f1 did nothing. but i guess that the hdd has had it.
 
yes i tried this, however i got a message telling me to make sure my HDD is powered and connected, which it is connected and so should be powered.

also i have the manual in paper form, it came with the mobo.
 
i got home last night as he was doing this

once it had finished and it pasted the results, it pasted something along the lines of 460gb free on the HD

now that cant be my boot HD as it is only an 80gb one. it must have scanned my USB HDD which as i said just now, i have unplugged.
 
To Split:

ok the only one in standard cmos features is my CDRW. and that is on channel 0 master

To Admiral:

my brother said something about sata or raid last night. but i have not got to a point from what i have seen, where i can press f4 to get into raid settings, let me have another go.
 
no doesnt get that far on bootup although i will go and check once more!!

just checked.

it does not get that far.
 
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no i dont see that bit split. it gets stuck on the bit where it says something about DCIM or DCMI data loading or something allong those lines.
 
ok i don't see the press what ever to get into raid bios.

i just photographed it, however i dont have any webspace, so i ahve to type it out!!

there is a grid with loads of numbers and this moves up the screen, it then goes to

verifying DMI POOL DATA...

boot from CD:

NVIDIA Boot Agent201.0462
copyright (c) 2001-2004 nvidia corporation
copyright (c) 1997-2000 intel corporation

client mac addr: 00 0f ea78 7d a0 guid:fffffff-ffffff
dhcp....
PKE-E53: No boot filename recieved

PKE-M0F-N0F: Exiting nvidia boot agent.
disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter"

and i tried that
it runs through lodsa of load things on its own then it comes up with the option to go into recovery console

i press R and it tells me that the HDD needs to be connected.
 
boot order is:

HD bootpriority [press enter]
first boot deviec [floppy]
2nd b d [HDD]
third b d [cdrom]
boot up floppy seek [disabled]
password check [setup]
init display first [peg]
 
my brother checked that first off last ngiht
and i checked it again this morning
well i only checked the ones in the back of the HDD
i didnt think to check the other ends of the cables!!
be right back!!
 
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