Re: [Simply Computers] Intel D915GAV Won't Boot

 

Hello,

I understand your frustration and that you would rather work on current hardware, but neither of those are going to help solve this problem.

It's an intriguing mystery.

If you want, we'll work on it some more.

But I need you to be more specific in your answers. Remember, we can't see what you've actually done. Explaining the steps you've taken may seem trivial to you, but it's the only way we will know what's been tried.

I know you said you tried booting with the SATA DVD, but did you try that with all the other drives disconnected?

That may seem silly, but I'm taking this one step at a time. Obviously, the Win 7 install disc can't install Windows if it can't find a hard drive. I just want to see if the install will even start.

Also, please answer this: Are you using the motherboard's video connector, or do you have a video card plugged in?

If you have a video card, you may need to set it in BIOS as the primary display output.

Just a thought.

let us know.

rogerX

--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, FastdragonFly <fastdragonfly@...> wrote:
>
> Roger, the frustrating thing is that I can press F2 during the boot
> process and get into the bios. Once in the bios, I can see what drives
> the bios can see. With them all connected, it can see all of them.
>
> I have tried one drive connected. The same thing occurred. I tried
> booting with a SATA DVD, Nothing.
>
> I'm tired of being frustrated. I prefer to work on current hardware anyway.
>
>
> DragonFly
>
> On 11/26/2011 3:47 PM, RogerX19 wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > It sounds like the drives are conflicting. Are the hard drive and the
> > DVD IDE or SATA types? If IDE, did you set the jumpers correctly? Are
> > you using Cable select or Master/Slave?
> >
> > 2) One way to test to see if the drives are conflicting is to disconnect
> > the hard drive, and put a bootable disc into the DVD drive (a Windows
> > install disk, or something similar)
> >
> > The computer should boot from the disc, search the system and find there
> > is no hard drive, and then give you that error.
> >
> > 3) If the hard drive is a SATA drive, do not set the BIOS to RAID. Set
> > it either to SATA (IDE emulation) or AHCI if you plan to use an eSATA
> > backup device.
> >
> > let us know ..
> >
> > rogerX
>

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