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- Nov 10, 2008
yesterday i had some motherboard trouble, where it refused to post. after removing it from my case and just running it bare i got it to post, but now i', having problems with it recognising my harddrives. i've got a blank 160GB WD harddrive and a 250GB WD harddrive with my OS on. it's picked up in the bios, and in the post information screen, but after that the next screen (i forget what it's called, but it's after the american industries post screen logo (or asus p5q pro logo screen)
with my main OS harddrive, after claiming there's no harddrive it then goes to the windows start menu (start in safe mode?), then loads, then hangs and restarts.
i've got an official windows vista ultimate setup disc (which incidentally i've never used to install ultimate...) and when i put that in it loads the setup file (reads my IDE optical drive, but doesn't find a harddrive). it either blue screens or hangs with a low resolution mouse.
i've googled all over the place and the only lead i had was "disabling marvell IDE controllers". i don't know how to do that (or whether i've done that already), but i've tried in the bios with IDE mode, ACHI mode and RAID mode. IDE mode displays the express gate menu, but the others don't give me anything at all.
i've tried all SATA ports, the red ones (intel controllers) and not red ones (marvell ones) - i get errors on all of them. any ideas? this weekend just isn't my lucky day...
thanks in advance
with my main OS harddrive, after claiming there's no harddrive it then goes to the windows start menu (start in safe mode?), then loads, then hangs and restarts.
i've got an official windows vista ultimate setup disc (which incidentally i've never used to install ultimate...) and when i put that in it loads the setup file (reads my IDE optical drive, but doesn't find a harddrive). it either blue screens or hangs with a low resolution mouse.
i've googled all over the place and the only lead i had was "disabling marvell IDE controllers". i don't know how to do that (or whether i've done that already), but i've tried in the bios with IDE mode, ACHI mode and RAID mode. IDE mode displays the express gate menu, but the others don't give me anything at all.
i've tried all SATA ports, the red ones (intel controllers) and not red ones (marvell ones) - i get errors on all of them. any ideas? this weekend just isn't my lucky day...
thanks in advance