Setup Did Not Find Any Hard Drive Disk Drives Installed In Your Computer

I have a ASUS & Intel 845pe Motherboard, AMD Athlon tm XP 1800+ Model 8 computer. I bought an Ultra 31664 1024 DDR PC3200 400MHZ yesterday to upgrade my RAM. I have 2 256mb DDR PC2700 memory sticks. I made sure it was compatible with my system before I installed. I found that I could install a 1024 MB stick after I ran the system scanner from www.crucial.com. My system has a max = 3072 MB, 1 slot available, no dual channel support, cpu speed 1492 mhz, and does not support ECC.

When I installed the memory stick in the slot and booted my computer I got an error - CMOS checksun error. Pressed F1 and got after veryfing DMI Pool Data...

BOOt from CD :
NVIDIA Boot Agent,PXE-2.0 (build 082 V1.82)

PXE-E61: Media Test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent.
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

I checked all cables and rebooted and got the same message. I took out the Ultra 31644 stick and still got the same error. It seems that something happened to my hard drive.

I booted with Windows XP CD to repair (I thought the registry was bad), but after I hit repair I got this message: SETUP DID NOT FIND ANY HARD DRIVE DISK DRIVES INSTALLED IN YOUR COMPUTER. How can this happen when the only think I did was to install more memory?

Is there a way to recover what I have in my hard drive?

Can you help me fix this problem? Can a hard drive be ruined installing a memory stick? Did I install the wrong memory and ruined the hard drive?

Thanks!
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I checked all the cables? Everything seems fine. There is an IDE data cable connected from the hard drive to the motherboard. A second cable is connected to the battery. Thanks for answering.

 

If you happen to have a spare hard drive, you could disconnect the original one, put the spare in, and see if the bios and / or Windows will detect that. If it does, you could install an operating system on it, and when it's set up, power the computer off, add the original as a slave and see if you can see anything on it.

 

Thanks! I will try it tomorrow!

Thanks for your help!

 

It was the IDE data cable, it went bad! The system booted up fine after I changed it for a new one. Amazing! I tried everything...What happened was that after I took out the original hard drive and put in the spare I was getting the same message. So, I decided to change the IDE data cable connected to it and it worked! I am thrilled! I thought I had lost everything. Thank you so much for your help. I followed what you said and came up with a solution. Thaaaaank You!