I would check the cables first and although its not rare for this to happen; static electricity, power surge, usually a loose cable would be the only problem. So recheck your connections and make sure your power supply is connected to the hard drive, and that your hard drive is connected to the motherboard, and like wise with the DVD Rom Drive. Also when you booted the computer did you here a series of Beeps before receiving that message? If so reboot the computer and listen to how the beeps sound and then use this site to determine what the beeps are about. By the sound of it you did what I did when I first built my computer I messed around with the hardware so much that I fried the RAM slots (wasn't wearing that ESD bracelet).

really? The last time I checked I heard only one beep when I boot it up. I don't have the bracelet but I've never felt the static shock. So would bad memory result in my 2 drives not being detected? And if it is, would I have to change the RAM or the whole motherboard AGAIN...

==EDIT==

Okay, I looked up a different site. I went directly to my MB's site forum and found this:



I hear one beep. --meaning that "all is well" ...?

This post has been edited by masugidsk8r: Sep 2 2007, 03:25 AM

ahh yes i've been there
your hard drive has lost drivers
the easist way is only avaible if you have a hard drive
i always have one because things go perfect but seem to never always stay the same
then you go to a friend with the same system as you (needs to be windows on both)
and floppy drive
get him to make you a MS Start up Disk you can search how on google or
Insert Disk
Right Click A Drive under My COmputer
Format Diskette
add Make MS Start up disk option
it will then make a floppy disk to insert before you start your computer
this diskette has drivers to all the hardware then you should be able to
pick options to start windows
i'd also recomend that if you havent installed a system yet it could be the problem
by using this diskette you can get it to read a system install disc you may have
such as windows

i hope i have help'd your problem as much as possible as i have a samsung 300gb
harddrive i bought and went through the same problem with it and my Helepackard DVD Room Drive



Answer to Second Question:
i dont wear a braclet at all and my pcs run correctly as long as you werent working around say a
cat
carpet
socks on
cloth gloves
or anything cloth
ive installed many memory upgrades without a bracelet it is only a luxury
if it is just keep ur arm rested on the case and it will provide all the non static you need



And Yes all is well with one beep however i've had one beep once then reboot over and over
ive also had one go to welcome screen and freeze in result of a infected by virus hard drive

you never know at some times

This post has been edited by habbo: Sep 2 2007, 04:00 AM

Oooh.. Well, I just decided to drop it off my local computer shop and have them take a look at it. School is starting this week and I just don't want another thing to worry about. I'll get back on this thread and we'll see how it goes

its the mother board because you haveput to much power into it and the circuitry broke if it is working now it will stop soon

It's actually hard to determine what's been burned, blown up, and destroyed when we can only go off of what you say.

I hope that you didn't get ripped off by that technician. Most guys will take advantage of the fact that the other guy doesn't know what he's doing. (Which is "why" you fried your stuff.)

If you heard a pop, I have reason to believe that it is the power supply, and if you don't have a POS PS, your components SHOULD be fine... but if the surge got to any of your components... 'nuff said.

But that was to the original post. I just thought of rechecking the latests posts and now we have a new prob...

Worst-case scenario is that you fried both hard drives, but that shouldn't have been the case because unless you have a POS PS, the surge should have ONLY fried the PS and left everything else alone. Saint Michael may be right about static electricity, but then again, as good computer builders, we always ground ourselves to something first, right?

Test the drives themselves on a computer that works. See if it even recognizes. What sounds do the drives make? Does it make any noise at all? If they do turn on, spin up the disks, but still can't be recognize, you may have fried the logic board WITHIN the hard drive... which leaves you with a working, but non-detectable paperweight. One fix for that case is if you have a spare hard drive of the SAME make and model, you could swap the logic boards (but of course, not only does this void your warranty, but it also is pointless unless in the rare case that you have a "dead" hard drive of the same make and model with an intact logic board). Otherwise, you may be SOL...

I've never heard of what Habbo is talking about, since I would believe that you would NOT be able to simply install device drivers onto a HD that "lost" its device drivers. If the logic board is dead, it's dead. No recovery. Even if it supposedly "lost" its drivers, I don't see how you could even access it then, because the computer itself doesn't even see anything in the BIOS. You COULD try specifying generic cylinder/capacity/etc values to see if you could try reviving it, but that would be guesswork that I believe would be in vain.

Of course, anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

@rayzoredge I am still waiting for that day to happen when a computer tech tells me different, because I will take my computer, put it in a car, come back and point and laugh at the guy . Telling me that something else is wrong HA!!

But on topic rayzoredge is correct I would go test the hard drive and DVD ROM drive on another computer, however, since the fry smell is very distinct just smell around were the cables are connected in the back, and if you get that funky oder then you know you did some damage to it.

I been pondering what Habbo been talking about, and I think he's talking about the F6 method, but again google is my friend and with a little luck the Start up disk is used for booting to the prompt. However, I think that will defeat the purpose if your hard drive is connected properly and it can't be detected.

Another idea does come to mind though, if you can get into your CMOS/BIOS and see if the booting order is messed up, or if the BIOS has picked up the hard drive or DVD drive. If it hasn't then your stuck to either the motherboard or the drives themselves. Thus refer back to rayzor's post about connecting the hardware to another computer and see if they work or not.

Alright. I finally took it to one of the computer shops and found out that I fried both the Hard Drive and the Optical Drive (DVD-ROM). So I took it home and just and for now we're using an external CD-RW drive to load a Live CD for Ubuntu. It's running fine except things are pretty slow because of the Live CD. Right now we don't have any hard drive so we'll be sure to get those two replaced soon.

I'm thinking of buying some at newegg but I'll go check out the parts at china town. They're usually cheaper there.