Hi, the other day I went to boot up my PC and noticed it was sat that windows load screen allot longer than normal. After a few minutes it switched to the blue windows Repair or Reinstall screen (I happened to have a XP disk in at the time)
I tried a repair which failed at which point the PC rebooted and starting claiming it could no longer find a HD, checked in BIOS and it was no longer listed. I then took an old hard drive out of another PC and tried booting up with that - this to could not be detected (However it came out of an old PC who's PSU blew in a very flashy way)
I tried both HDs on different SATA plugs on the motherboard and tried powering them with different cables off the PSU with no joy.
So... my question is, is it a clear cut HD failure or is it possible that the Motherboard is going fruity?
Im not sure if this is worth mentioning but for some reason I can no longer remove the CD fro mthe DVD drive (it just buzzes but doesn't eject the disk.)
The DVD drive is still showing in the BIOS though.
I tried a repair which failed at which point the PC rebooted and starting claiming it could no longer find a HD, checked in BIOS and it was no longer listed. I then took an old hard drive out of another PC and tried booting up with that - this to could not be detected (However it came out of an old PC who's PSU blew in a very flashy way)
I tried both HDs on different SATA plugs on the motherboard and tried powering them with different cables off the PSU with no joy.
So... my question is, is it a clear cut HD failure or is it possible that the Motherboard is going fruity?
Im not sure if this is worth mentioning but for some reason I can no longer remove the CD fro mthe DVD drive (it just buzzes but doesn't eject the disk.)
The DVD drive is still showing in the BIOS though.
