5punk

the other satra drives worked fine, the windows one is corrupt but it still tries to load windows

I'd try resetting the bios, but the hdd sounds like it may well be DOA.

:S now it won't even show the post screen when i press tab

So you tried resetting your BIOS?
The disk is not visible in the BIOS menu?

i can't get into the bios. when i start it it gives me an asus screen saying press tab for post screen and i press tab and it carries on regardless

edit: ok it said tab but it meant del. stupid thing

Easy.

I suspect you're using a usb keyboard, and that your motherboard probably doesn't have legacy usb support enabled by default (which is fucking retarded)

Try to find a ps/2 keyboard or adaptor.

ok now i'm in there i want to load default setup is that right?

Yup.

still says no device

i reckon its RMA time

would it be worth asking them to replace with a different model, in case they have a batch of faulty ones?

The Incredible... wrote:would it be worth asking them to replace with a different model, in case they have a batch of faulty ones?

I think it's very unlikely that that'd happen, due to testing etc, it's probably a one off.

The Incredible... wrote:ok so i removed both my 200 and 500 gb drives and put the 250gb one in, and it isn't recognised. when i go to the windows set up it says it can't find a drive to install on and can't continue and i boot up it says there is no disk on either channel. have tried it with both sata ports and both sata power connectors

any suggestions? Faulty drive? faulty me?

Did you have a look in the manual? I know for some Sata devices and motherboards, you have to install drivers which would of came on a CD with the motherboard, of which you'd have to install via a floppy disc due to XP sometimes having problems recognising Sata hard drives.

Check the manual to see if it mentions anything about this. Also try having a look around in BIOS to see if you can change the SATA setting to from RAID/AHCI to IDE.

Hmm, seems I arrived late for this lemon party...

What everyone else said.

Also, If you can get to bios, try re-setting it all to factory default, then nuking cmos, battery out, jumper set to 'die cmos die' and getting the board back to how it was when it was first slipped out of it's smooth cool anti-static sheath, this will probably be no different to just re-setting it, but it might make the board behave.


tangent- I've just got my new mobo, it has yellow sata cables, I don't like them, think I'll use some red or grey ones.

HereComesPete wrote:tangent- I've just got my new mobo, it has yellow sata cables, I don't like them, think I'll use some red or grey ones.

ooh, gigabyte, I'd suggest using those cables, they're decent quality clippy-ones, most win.

My grey ones are shit, but the red ones are (istr) clippy onny too. I guess I'm not that bothered, at least the yellow ain't mellow, because that colour infuriates me - old people get mercs, porsches and beamers in mellow yellow, stupid old fucks.

HereComesPete wrote:My grey ones are shit, but the red ones are (istr) clippy onny too. I guess I'm not that bothered, at least the yellow ain't mellow, because that colour infuriates me - old people get mercs, porsches and beamers in mellow yellow, stupid old fucks.

What about cheese? Some cheese is yellow, sort of. And curry.

Dog Pants wrote:What about cheese?

Hello? what about me?



I've not read the whole thread , but from what I gather, listen to Berk, look for your SATA drivers on the CD that came with your motherboard.

Easy way, put the CD into a working PC. So a search for "txtsetup.oem" and if found (and the folder name makes sense, i.e. not the drivers for a different mobo that they bundled onto the CD) put them on a floppy.

When you put the windows disk in, press F6 near the start, then follow the destructions for other drive device drivers...

cheeseandham wrote:
I've not read the whole thread , but from what I gather, listen to Berk, look for your SATA drivers on the CD that came with your motherboard.

Easy way, put the CD into a working PC. So a search for "txtsetup.oem" and if found (and the folder name makes sense, i.e. not the drivers for a different mobo that they bundled onto the CD) put them on a floppy.

When you put the windows disk in, press F6 near the start, then follow the destructions for other drive device drivers...

i originally had trouble with the sata drivers, but found them online and stuck them on a floppy and sorted it out, hwever last time i had to format and reinstall i found my floppy was dead, and it oesn't let you choose another device to install from, so what i did was make a slipstreamed disc of win xp home with SP2 AND the via sata/raid drivers i needed, and that worked fine, but doesn't seem to be helping in this case.

also, betweeenthe asus screen and the booting into the windows disc there is another screen of information, which shows the 2 sata channels and the name of the drive connected to each one, both show a drive when my current hard drives are connected but with the new one it said no device.

i have now filled an RMA and sent it back, hopefully it won't take too long, any ideas on return times with ebuyer.com?

GODDAMMIT!!


I have today received a replacement for the drive which was tested by ebuyer and found to be faulty. However i am now having the same problem with the new drive!!

i'm really annoyed now

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