help fixing my desktop

[omi]

my desktop died wont boot properly into windows, thought was due to loose gfx connection which i removed cleaned and put back in.

then 1 ram module failed or came loose, i just took it out.

now windows fails to boot, says insert disk to fix. which i do

but all my HDDs are SATA which XP doesnt recognise, i borrow a floppy disk drive from work which i cant get working

its connected, power on, recognised in BIOS. but the orange light stays on all the time.

I changed the direction of the connection cable to check if i put it in the wrong way round. followed the red line on the connection cable to the floppy disk drive so i know its orientated properly

so either the floppy drive is screwed or my mobo is knackered as well which may have been the source of my original problem

any advice and help would be greatly appreciated.

winXP pro sp2

 

[Garyj881]

Can we have your spec pls?

Firstly i dont understand what youre trying to do with a floppy.

When it says insert disc i presume it means your XP disc in an attempt to replace missing corrupt windows files.

However if your bios doesnt detect your drives this is because your bios has probably been reset and the drive arrangement has been lost.

You need to first set your bios to read your SATA drives, can't remember what its called, legacy mode or something like, when you have set it you need to reboot and go back in to bios to see if it now sees the sata discs.

Once bios is configured correctly then you need to do a system recovery which is nearly the same steps as installing window but the xp disc will ask you if you want to attempt to do a recovery just follow it through and it will replace the missing files (hopefully).

If altering the bios to see the drives doesnt work you could have a faulty hgdd or mobo.

 

[omi]

AMD barton 2500
1gb ram
DFI Lanparty ultra B
Nvidia gfx card forgot model
2 x seagate HDD (250GB) SATA
1 x samsung HDD (80GB) SATA
Liteon DVD writer

I am trying to get the floppy drive to work so that I can load the SATA drivers so that the windows CD can repair my OS.

I had a look in the BIOS but could not find a SATA enable section on it. it should be in the integrate peripheals section but no option for this mobo exists. (not sure which BIOS update I have,around mid 2006 at the latest)

when i installed windows on this ages ago, I had to load the SATA drivers via floppy drive then install windows CD.

I check the BIOS guide from

hXXp://www.mysuperpc.com/build/pc_sata_second_boot.shtml