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08-05-2001, 07:53 PM
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HD failure
at bootup, i get the BOOT DISK FAILURE message. I swapped the HD for a good working HD from another system, and i get the same message.
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08-05-2001, 08:54 PM
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Computer Tool
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Do you have the jumpers set correctlly and has the first drive been FDISK'd and Formatted? Do have the BIOS set to auto detect new drives?
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08-05-2001, 09:17 PM
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Forgot to mention, this drive was working just fine in that system untill now. So everything is jumpered/set correctly, but not booting.
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08-05-2001, 09:38 PM
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The Smokester
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Did it crash before you lost the hard drive? Sounds like it has to be a hardware problem. Have you made any recent changes to the hardware configuration? You might try seeing if it boots with the bios fail safe settings.
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08-07-2001, 02:43 PM
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It worked fine untill the last time i shut it down, just wouldn't boot again. If it's a hardware problem then why isn't it working with the other HD connected either? Didn't change the configuration or anything else. This is a very simple machine with nothing more than a HD and video card. I tried hooking up a 3.5" floppy drive to boot from a diskette but the drive is not detected before i get the HD FAILURE message. And yes i changed the boot sequence to A,C.
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08-07-2001, 02:44 PM
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BIOS set to autodetect, yes.
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08-07-2001, 10:36 PM
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If you have access to another computer, Take your hard drive/jumper it as a slave/plug it into the machine as a IDE1 slave/Run FDISK andDelete all partitions/Run FDISK and Create a New Primary DOS partition and any other Partitions you want/Format the disk/Remove it/Jumper it as a Master/Install into you machine/Load the OS/STILL NO GO? >BUY NEW HARD DRIVE.
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08-08-2001, 03:35 PM
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hmm i work w/ fixing computers all day, may sound silly but get a new IDE cable and try that. =P
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08-08-2001, 06:33 PM
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Tried a new cable, didn't work. I tried the HD in another computer, and at startup W98 automatically did a surface scan on it. I let it finish completely, then it booted into windows just fine. Did a restart to double-check things, and it worked just fine. Put the HD back in the old computer, DISK BOOT FAILURE again. Notice i couldn't boot from a 3.5 floppy either, i get the same error message. So if the drive is good, what isn't??
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08-08-2001, 09:26 PM
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Computer Tool
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Try the Power supply next, then the motherboard.
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08-09-2001, 02:49 PM
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Tried another PS but it didn't help. Is there any way to test the motherboard besides putting in a new one? Or am i just too lazy to do it ..
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08-09-2001, 07:55 PM
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Nothing is forever -- not even MoBo's
I work on computers a lot too. I've seen integrated IDE controllers fail when the Mobo continued to function normally before. You might try a plug-in controller (turning of the on-board in BIOS) or replace the MoBo.
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08-09-2001, 11:03 PM
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where can i find a plug-in controller? i tried download.com without luck
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08-10-2001, 08:47 AM
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Kinda hard to download a controller card..........
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08-10-2001, 09:33 AM
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Duh! i thought he meant a software plug-in... i was wondering how the hell i was going to run the application without windoze!
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08-10-2001, 09:46 AM
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Try looking here.
http://www.axiontech.com/cgi-local/p...dt=COPRULTRA66 just one example. If you go to www.pricewatch.com you can check other sources under the controller category or do a search on EIDE. Yes, fitting a IDE Controller through your tel/dsl/cable line might be a bit difficult. 
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