Hi im new but hopin can help cos im so lost

k dont know where to start to be honest i have a computer im building .the motherboard is aa 845pemax 2 series with 1.7 cerlon processor.everythin seems fint till i try to boot it but it doesnt seem to find the harddrive says that fast track cant find the hard drive yet i know its connected. The hard drive is samsung 10gb sv102h1 which i was given.i tried on number of accasion to try get it to boot, but i get same message all time harddrive not connected.I have tried diferent ones still it doesnt boot allso camoes up with message bios not installed.so hopin maybe one you guys can point me in right direction an help me
thanks for takin time to read thisconfused

 

can any one help out there

i still stuck with this problem i dont know what to do..i dont understand why the harddrive isnt being found when i know its in an working.. if any one can just offer few ideas it be much appreicatedconfused

 

Sometimes it says "Hard drive not connected" and others "BIOS not installed"? I am not sure but I think it is a faulty motherboard. How old is the motherboard? Do you have any disc that contains BIOS drivers?

and a little tip: try not to do so many typos. It makes it difficult for others to read the post and understand your problem.

 

thanks for replying.sorry bout typos not to good at typin fast.the motherboard is bout 3 years old.everythin else seems ok,except as i said it just says no harddrive found.i can get it to boot up from cd rom usin9 the xp disc it gets so far then comes up cannot contuine harddrive not found .. hope iv explained it little better this time..any help will be great

 

I dunno if this helps but...I have an ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe and whenever i boot up it goes through a drive check with possibly the same Fast Track controller; its a RAID controller and from my experiences it doesnt detect just one drive. Mine says the exact same thing, "Drive not found. The BIOS is not installed" but after that it just boots up fine, no problem. Not a problem for me so i dont see why it could be causing problems in your case...Does boot stop after you get that message?

 

"... allso camoes up with message bios not installed."

If the above is indeed the case, the machine won't find anything which you install. Either the bios chip is loose (not fully seated) or it may be cooked.

"... i can get it to boot up from cd rom usin9 the xp disc it gets so far then comes up cannot contuine harddrive not found ..."

However, if you can boot with a CD, so I suspect your bios is functioning. If the bios was really somehow cooked the machine won't have the parameters for booting with a floppy or CD.

Download the hard disk diagnostic utilities for Samsung hard disks here. Test the hard disk.

 

FastTrak is a RAID controller made by Promise

 

k i posted on some other thread according to this guy my motherboard doesnt support my cpu would this not make anythin work cos all im havin trouble with is hardrives

 

yeah iv checked an double checked the ide cables even got missus to check them,also tried 3 different one still no look.Also i only have 1 hardrive connected,but have tried 2 different one including one out missus comp thats got xp already installed still doesnt find it or boot.

 

its doesnt seem to find it in bios ither.ill try the idea bout secondary get back to you

 

k i tried that an nothin gettin close to given up..i seem cursed:cry

 

hiya tim yean my mobo is msi 845pe max2 series,yes i have manual iv tried everythin it says in there but nothinconfused

 

further update to my harddrive problem,i tried usin my gfs from her comp with xp already installed..the bios does at least read it an it goes to boot,but message system root/system 32/ntdll/dll.check any new software or hardrives that may be installed..after this it restarts an does same thing over an over again only was stop it turn comp off at mains..im guessing my harddrive is no good but that doesnt explain where the hd out other comp does the same?could it be the cpu,or even worse the mobo.any advice or hints will be great



thanks

rickster

 

i have no diskd with hardrives as was brought from boot sale..however the hd wont be picked up by my gfs comp when on slave..her computer acts sluggish
an freezes now an then.so unanle to run anythin to check if its the hardrive.

 

Many of the disk diagnostics (which I linked to in my #6 reply) will bypass the bios and "talk" directly to the hard disk. If there's anything left of the disks logic board/firmware etc, the diagnostics should find the disk.

If you have a working floppy drive on the problem machine, I again suggest you test the disk.

 

thanks to everyone that helped, found was harddrive it was dead so got new one an now im up an running