Broke my new build after 30 mins :-(

apple_man77 · 12 Apr 2011 at 22:56

Hi,

Built my first computer tonight took it fairly steady but got it all rigged up and it worked first time

I installed windows and then a few drivers from the mo bo cd.

Each time on start up it said.....

Sata is running in ide mode, enable achi press y or n

I've pressed y and now it won't boot at all and just goes round in a loop trying to fix windows before shutting down really pee'd off as I was having a good night until doing one thing wrong which i can't seem to fix??

Any help would be greatly appreciated

nuttyprot · 12 Apr 2011 at 22:58

First go into bios and there is normally an option to reset to default. May help fix yer problem.

Nvidiot · 12 Apr 2011 at 22:59

You may need to do a complete re-install from scratch, go into the BIOS and switch over the SATA controller from IDE to AHCI if you havent already done so.

Stelly · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:00

What OS are you using?

Stelly

apple_man77 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:03

Thanks guys will try it tomorrow just come up to bed as I gotta be up at 5.30 for work

I'm running windows 7 64bit premium.

I've been in the boot drive to run off disk and it's no good.

Just appears to go around in a loop.

I've pressed f12 but it's just offering me which drive to boot from

Nvidiot · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:08

So you cant press DELETE to enter the BIOS?

apple_man77 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:10

It's not got that option?? :confused:

I'm gonna go down and try or it'll annoy me until I get back from work tomorrow

apple_man77 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:12

Yep pressed delete got a blue page with loads of options.....

deusexlumina · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:16

change it back to ide mode and problem solved

you dont need to reinstall windows

apple_man77 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:17

Thanks,

How/where do I do it?

Sorry but I'm new to all this

Nvidiot · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:18

You need to find the IDE/AHCi option for the SATA controller in one of those pages, the mmotherboards manual should help.

Hopefully you can either set it back too IDE and the PC will boot up as normal, or you can set it to AHCI and do a re-install, if its a fresh install as the pc is only 30mins old, then you wont loss anything trying.

If the new PC is using a SSD then it is better to be running in AHCI mode, the re-install will allow the correct drivers to be installed for this.

apple_man77 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:20

I've found it and swapped windows is starting.......

apple_man77 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:21

Woohoo it's working manythanks for such quick help really appreciated

I can go to bed now.

Thanks again
Mark

Waza · 13 Apr 2011 at 08:51

What mode did you eventually get it to run on?

scrlk · 13 Apr 2011 at 10:43

Waza said:
What mode did you eventually get it to run on?

He got it running in IDE mode.

Renton · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:42

If you installed windows in IDE then you need to leave it in IDE for windows to boot for the time being. If you want to run in ACHI then boot in IDE and load windows, and go to this link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

read the instructions but basically you run the programme and it will change your registry i think to allow windows to run in ACHI, once you have run the programme just reboot, change back to ACHI in your bios and you should boot fine (worked for me)

you will see a slight improvement in disk performance if you enable ACHI with a standard "mechanical drive", if you have an SSD you will see a large inprovement over IDE mode

hope this helps

Philtor · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:45

Renton said:
If you installed windows in IDE then you need to leave it in IDE for windows to boot for the time being. If you want to run in AHCI then boot in IDE and load windows, and go to this link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

This.

apple_man77 · 14 Apr 2011 at 00:06

Thank you Renton

Renton · 14 Apr 2011 at 23:42

Apple your more than welcome m8...i hope you got your system working to its max

I am however just posting something that someone else has posted to me for the same problem so if you get the oppertunity pass it forward

one day i will get my magic 100 posts and free delivery...sweet