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- Apr 20, 2008
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- Toronto, Canada
I need some desperate help guys...
My computer had been running perfectly all this time. I switched on my computer in the morning and the BIOS started its Memory check in POST. All was ok. Then I see these messages:
It does not detect my IDE cdrom, a hard drive and a SATA hard drive. Nothing comes up in the bios and hence I cannot boot into windows. I had heard of SATA drive corruption with these boards since their release and I updated my BIOS as soon as I got this board and I never experienced any problems.
After checking some cables I switch on my PC again and I hear 3-4 beep sounds and the screen goes blank and the video card blows at full speed. I checked the LED codes on the motherboard and they had to do with the RAM in one way or another. I switched my RAM to another DIMM slots and then it went til the POST bios screen and started its memory check, again I saw the same messages.
I restored default settings by resetting the CMOS jumper and now I can atleast see all the SATA/IDE available connections in the POST check but still no drive is being recognized. And this time there was no mouse error like before.
One of my main concerns is whether my data is safe in the hard drives or not. I haven't had a chance to check it in another computer. Someone please let me know if I have a faulty RAM, is the motherboard acting up or whether my hard drives have been permanently corrupt somehow!!!! Oh and one more thing, my cpu had been running on 3.6ghz stable and the first time I saw the error at POST check up, the cpu was reset to its stock clock speeds.
My computer had been running perfectly all this time. I switched on my computer in the morning and the BIOS started its Memory check in POST. All was ok. Then I see these messages:
Detecting IDE drives....
ps/2 mouse error or no ps/2 mouse present
Press F1 to continue
It does not detect my IDE cdrom, a hard drive and a SATA hard drive. Nothing comes up in the bios and hence I cannot boot into windows. I had heard of SATA drive corruption with these boards since their release and I updated my BIOS as soon as I got this board and I never experienced any problems.
After checking some cables I switch on my PC again and I hear 3-4 beep sounds and the screen goes blank and the video card blows at full speed. I checked the LED codes on the motherboard and they had to do with the RAM in one way or another. I switched my RAM to another DIMM slots and then it went til the POST bios screen and started its memory check, again I saw the same messages.
I restored default settings by resetting the CMOS jumper and now I can atleast see all the SATA/IDE available connections in the POST check but still no drive is being recognized. And this time there was no mouse error like before.
One of my main concerns is whether my data is safe in the hard drives or not. I haven't had a chance to check it in another computer. Someone please let me know if I have a faulty RAM, is the motherboard acting up or whether my hard drives have been permanently corrupt somehow!!!! Oh and one more thing, my cpu had been running on 3.6ghz stable and the first time I saw the error at POST check up, the cpu was reset to its stock clock speeds.