is this a bad hdd....or mb??

[user3657]

i went to turn on my pc the other day, and it took a very long time to go through post, then it came up with some boot error, replace etc etc. the motherboard does not even see the hd, which is an old rapter. no settings were changed but i went into the bios and reset defaults just incase. same thing, now i unplug the hd and the pc goes through the "post" normal speed. thinking it might be the hd, i put it in another pc as a slave i was able to see the files and even transfer to and from it normally.

any ideas? its a new p5k and everything was working(besides alot of crashes)till yesterday.

cliffs:
bios does not see sata hdd anymore for some strange reason.
stuck hdd in another pc as slave and it worked normally.

 

[ajmoho]

In my BIOS there is a section to specify the SATA or PATA etc.
I have to manually set that to SATA (along these lines)

Another time I was working on PC, and after replacing PSU and removing RAM etc (and the fan for it) upon reboot, big messages saying OVERCLOCKING HAS FAILED!

I went through and found most of the BIOS settings changed. How I don't know, but loading defaults wouldn't help me. I had to go into BIOS and do it like the first time. making sure to enble SATA and all the other stuff.

It's back to normal now.

I am not sure why HDD was slow prior to the loss. Hopefully because of some BIOS setting changed on you and I hope u can fix it easily in BIOS.

 

[ajmoho]

Sorry - those crashes were regular before the final death? Maybe BIOS wrong all along? Definately a relationship between your crashes and the HDD death I would think...and it's prolly not dead, just not recognized. I hope BIOS is the fix for you.

 

[user3657]

well the crashes happened when i replaced my mb, cpu and ram. users on here think its because i did not format the hdd when i upgraded. ill try looking again for any ata settings but i never had to mess with any of that in the first place.

 

[user3657]

just talked to tech support @ asus. seems like the sata controller is bad. gonna have to rma it. damnit! i hate switchin mbs, gotta remove everything again.