Ok story is short.
Decided to have a bath. After i came out watched some tv and had some dinner. Then after i decided to pop on the computer but thought hmm carpet needs a hover so i did just that. I did hover around the computer and i did knock the desk with the hover but not that much to do anything at all just a gentle tap. I used the end bit to hover the front of the case where the dust gridle thing was to get bit of dust out.
Anyhow.
After all that i sat down and turned it on. Now when Via sata bios thing pops up to check the sata drives it just pauses for a while and says Hardware initilization failure, Check hardware !!! or somit.
Edit - actual message
Scan devices
Press <tab> key into user window!
Hardware initiate failed, please check device!!!
The bios does not be installed
Press <g> to continue!
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I tryed takin cables in and out and also changed the cable port from sata 1 to sata 2 but no go. I might try another sata cable but that means another go at removing gfx card cos sata ports right under the end of it and its a double slot card grr.
I tryed sorting it bios wise but bios wasnt pickin the hdd up.
Also i tryed putting just my 2 ide drives on which were fine before. It didnt work with 2 drives in so i just put the windows xp one in and booted that up but it doesnt boot into full windows. I am sat here on safe mode, i duno why on earth it wouldnt work in full windows mode.
So what can i do I REALLY NEED HELP!!!!!!!!
As the sata has all my stuff on i need and it has newest windows xp sp3 and stuff on. I need it and refuse to lose it.
Edit -
The sata is a segate sata 2 (in sata 1 mode tho) 500giger from ocuk bought last month or two ago.
Motherboard is a asus a8v deluxe rev 2.0 with 1014 bios.
Strange thing is when via controller says the error it says bios not installed but mb bios is so im very confused about that message.
Decided to have a bath. After i came out watched some tv and had some dinner. Then after i decided to pop on the computer but thought hmm carpet needs a hover so i did just that. I did hover around the computer and i did knock the desk with the hover but not that much to do anything at all just a gentle tap. I used the end bit to hover the front of the case where the dust gridle thing was to get bit of dust out.
Anyhow.
After all that i sat down and turned it on. Now when Via sata bios thing pops up to check the sata drives it just pauses for a while and says Hardware initilization failure, Check hardware !!! or somit.
Edit - actual message
Scan devices
Press <tab> key into user window!
Hardware initiate failed, please check device!!!
The bios does not be installed
Press <g> to continue!
--
I tryed takin cables in and out and also changed the cable port from sata 1 to sata 2 but no go. I might try another sata cable but that means another go at removing gfx card cos sata ports right under the end of it and its a double slot card grr.
I tryed sorting it bios wise but bios wasnt pickin the hdd up.
Also i tryed putting just my 2 ide drives on which were fine before. It didnt work with 2 drives in so i just put the windows xp one in and booted that up but it doesnt boot into full windows. I am sat here on safe mode, i duno why on earth it wouldnt work in full windows mode.
So what can i do I REALLY NEED HELP!!!!!!!!
As the sata has all my stuff on i need and it has newest windows xp sp3 and stuff on. I need it and refuse to lose it.
Edit -
The sata is a segate sata 2 (in sata 1 mode tho) 500giger from ocuk bought last month or two ago.
Motherboard is a asus a8v deluxe rev 2.0 with 1014 bios.
Strange thing is when via controller says the error it says bios not installed but mb bios is so im very confused about that message.
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