COMPLETLY STRESSED OUT

INFECTION

INFECTION

INFECTION

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gf's computer is crap all i can say i really need some help big style please

got a new HDD for the comp the other day have formatted it and put it in the comp tried to install windows i was the confronted on boot up with BIOS ROM CHECKSUM ERROR was told to reset the bios so looked for maual on the net found it but there was nothing on there for resetting bios so i took the cmos battery out and put it back in again. the pc then booted up and let me start to install windows was then confronted with %spcdname% insert disk in to A: drive dont have a clue what that is looked on the net found out its MS way of saying it needs sata drivers one problem the drive i have isnt a sata drive its an IDE drive

i dont know what to do no more can anyone help me its really important as i need to get it working as her disatation work is on the old drive and i have managed to get it on to disk for her from the old drive just need to get her pc working ASAP so she can finish it

please help me please
 
Firstly theres no need to start multi threads, im sure we all done been there and done that but you need patience ;) I spent the up until 3am on sat and all sun morning trying to figure out why my new build wasnt posting. A bit of patience and calm thinking narrowed it down to the HDD that was most likely to have blown.
 
Have you tried resetting the girlfriend, might relieve the stress.

Just take the disk out of the gf's machine, plug it into a working machine and copy the dissertation off, then fix the original PC at leisure.
 
i thought to clear the bios you had to remove the battery, turn it on for a bit, then off again, and then put the battery back in. might help.

Other wise, spend £50 on a old P3 system and slave the drive to that.
 
I am putting a new comp together, and load defaults save and exit fixed the checksum error, resetting the Bios might not load defaults.If that is your problem.
 
INFECTION said:
gf's computer is crap all i can say i really need some help big style please

got a new HDD for the comp the other day have formatted it and put it in the comp tried to install windows i was the confronted on boot up with BIOS ROM CHECKSUM ERROR was told to reset the bios so looked for maual on the net found it but there was nothing on there for resetting bios so i took the cmos battery out and put it back in again. the pc then booted up and let me start to install windows was then confronted with %spcdname% insert disk in to A: drive dont have a clue what that is looked on the net found out its MS way of saying it needs sata drivers one problem the drive i have isnt a sata drive its an IDE drive

i dont know what to do no more can anyone help me its really important as i need to get it working as her disatation work is on the old drive and i have managed to get it on to disk for her from the old drive just need to get her pc working ASAP so she can finish it

please help me please
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Try and see if you can disable the stata controller in your BIOS, might force windows into realising the drive is an EIDE drive.
 
sorted it out now thanks sorry bout the multi threads n the big rant just was really stressed took the easy way out got a new comp for her £300 so not too bad not a bad spec either her old one was the impitamy of crap lol and as i turned it on for one last go after an hour break the motherboard blew out so solved my problem n took the old hdd out n transfered data across.

but thanks for the help guys
 
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