Detecting drives: Done: No drives found

Sengar

Sengar

Sengar

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So.....my PC has decided to give me some grief. After working fine for a long time it now won't boot up. I'm getting the Asus splash screen, it then gives me the following message:

"JMicron Technology Corp. PCI Express to SATAII HOST Controller ROM v1.07.23 Copyright (C) 2005-2010. JMicron Technology Corp.

Detecting drives: Done: No drives found."

Then it drops to a black screen with a flashing cursor.

It's confusing because I don't think I'm actually using anything requiring a PCIE to SATAII. I have two SATAlll with an SSD working as a cache to the first. It seems they aren't even being seen.

What's even more confusing is I can't get into the BIOS. I've mashed the DEL button and any other possible combination. I've tried everything.

My MB is an Asus P8z68-v.

I've not changed or altered anything. The only thing in the last few days was a Windows update.

I was planning to replace the PC after Christmas, but don't really want to do it from a broken one.

Any ideas welcome!
 
If you boot into the BIOS, can you see the drives listed?

Could be a faulty controller, have you tried changing SATA ports?
 
How long did you leave it on the black screen? Flashing cursor could mean it's doing something. Might just need a bit of time to get in the BIOS?

I recall when I had a HD fail, it would sort of 'hang' while it checks that port on startup. It took a few minutes to get into the BIOS.
 
Hi thanks for the replies.

I can't get into the BIOS at all to see anything. That's part of the problem.

I've left it on for a good 10-15 mins. I could try longer....
 
Mmm nah I wouldn't expect it to need that long. Was just a guess :)

If you unplug all/some of the drives does the same thing happen?
 
I'm opening up the rig this morning to work on it. But without being able to access the BIOS I guess I will need to reset the CMOS?
 
If you're using the Blue SATA port try switching to the grey one or vice versa, just to rule out a fault there
 
One way to try hings out is by process of elimination.

No matter what, you should be able to see the bios screen.

You have onboard graphics, so try removing your GPU and using onboard graphics. If that does nothing, unplug your hard drives, no joy, your memory, your CPU etc etc.

Unplug everything one item at a time, power back on and see if issue resolves, if not re-fit and unplug another single component, rinse repeat.
 
Okay, so it turned out that the SSD acting as cache to HDD1 was fried, and because RAID s as required for that set up once the SSD was dead the other drives couldn't be seen. What's more, it threw the BIOS into some form of loop that I couldn't break into. So..... removing the SSD gave access to the BIOS, which then allowed me to switch out of RAID, and hey presto, all working again.
 
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