Serious Computer Issue!

[TroyBSOlo]

I am running a AMD 64 3500+ on a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939.

I went to turn on the computer and my finger shocked my case. After doing so my monitor went blank so I turned off the computer. Now it won't boot, just the Fans, lights and CD rom drives will work the computer won't even boot up the memory. I have removed everything from the mobo except the Vid card and the CPU still a no go. SO I took out the CMOS Battery and booted and I was surpised but it actaully "dectected some information" I put in my ram and it now booted up and decected the ram. HOwever, it will not decect any of my IDE Devices. I don't understand this but the next strange thing is if I let it boot through and it says "BOOT DISK FAILURE" since there is no hard drive, when I then reboot I am back to the computer not booting. The only way to get it to boot again is to remove the CMOS battery for a few minutes. I don't know what to do to get this issue fixed. PLEASE assist me I don't see how a shock to the outside of my case could case such damage. Please any information you could provie would be wonderful.

 

[TroyBSOlo]

I tried updating my Bios and this did not my fix my problem. When it boots up it will verify the ram and stall while trying to detect the IDE drives. IT will not detect the CD Rom or HD!!! I don't know what to do! I can boot into DOS mode but thats about it. I am stuck I don't know what the issue is or what I need to do in order to get this fixed.

PLEASE ASSIST!

 

[Malak]

Take it into a shop maybe?

 

[mechBgon]

If you give us full specs, that would probably help too. If you feel like being thorough, hit Quote at the bottom of this post and edit the example to fit your system, or at least give us a rundown of your core hardware. Drive info will help too.

• CORE HARDWARE
  • Power supply Antec TruePower 430
  • Motherboard Asus K8N-E Deluxe
    • Revision 1.03
    • BIOS 1005
  • CPU Athlon64 3000+
    • Core 130nm Clawhammer
  • Memory (2) 512MB Corsair XMS 3200C2 modules
    • Voltage Manually set to 2.7 volts
    • Timings AUTO, results in 2-3-2-6 @ 200MHz
• CARDS
  • Primary video card ATI Radeon 9800Pro AGP 8x
  • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
  • PCI slot #2 empty
  • PCI slot #3 LeadTek Winfast TV/FM tuner card
  • PCI slot #4 Creative Audigy 2 ZS
  • PCI slot #5 LSI Logic Ultra160 SCSI
  • PCI slot #6 (board only has five PCI slots)
• DRIVES
  • Boot drive 160GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Serial ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 SATA controller
    • Jumper setting not applicable (SATA)
  • Additional hard drive 40GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, primary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Additional hard drive 18GB Seagate Cheetah 15k.3
    • Interface SCSI
    • Controller hosting this drive LSI Logic U160 card
    • Jumper setting SCSI ID 01
  • Optical drive #1 NEC 3500A DVD burner
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Optical drive #2 Lite-On combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Slave

 

[TroyBSOlo]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
If you give us full specs, that would probably help too. If you feel like being thorough, hit Quote at the bottom of this post and edit the example to fit your system, or at least give us a rundown of your core hardware. Drive info will help too.

• CORE HARDWARE
  • Power supply Thermalake 430
  • Motherboard Giga-Byte K8NS Ultra 939
    • Revision 1.03
    • BIOS 1005
  • CPU Athlon64 3500+
    • Core 130nm Clawhammer
  • Memory (2) 512MB OVZ 3500
    • Voltage Manually set to 2.7 volts
    • Timings AUTO, results in 2.5-3-4-7 @ 200MHz
• CARDS
  • Primary video card ATI Radeon x800 xt pe AGP 8x
  • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
  • PCI slot #2 empty
  • PCI slot #3 empty
  • PCI slot #4 empty
  • PCI slot #5 empty
  • PCI slot #6 (board only has five PCI slots)
• DRIVES
  • Boot drive 80GB WD 7200
    • Interface IDE
    • Controller hosting this drive n/a
    • Jumper setting not applicable (SATA)
  • Additional hard drive empty
    • Interface n/a
    • Controller hosting this drive N/A
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Additional hard drive empty
    • Interface n/a
    • Controller hosting this drive
    • Jumper setting
  • Optical drive #1 NEC 3500A DVD burner
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Optical drive #2 Lite-On combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Slave

These are the specs I have tested the ram thats fine. THe only thing I think it could be would the the PSU, mobo, or proc.

 

[TroyBSOlo]

Bios version above is wrong

I have tried all of the bios file available no fix for me yet.

I just think i had one of those fluke experiences where by touching my case it jacked up my entire rig, i am screwed I thinks.

 

[mechBgon]

Don't give up yet Start by removing the Western Digital hard drive and checking its jumper setting. WD's have four options: Master, Slave, Single Drive, and Cable Select. If it has a cable of its own, then don't use anything but Single Drive. Single Drive is when the jumper cap is off the pins completely. Try like that, if it wasn't already.

If it was set to one of the other three settings because it had been sharing a cable, then try it by itself on its own cable in the Single Drive mode.