Re: Mystery solution to problem maybe caused by Motherboard
- From: "Jan Alter" <bearpuf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:47:57 -0400
"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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km wrote:
Thanks Paul for a comprehensive response.
Initially I tried to access the HDD, on the basis that it coulb be an
MBR problem. There were no messages after BIOS loaded to suggest this
however.
I used another Drive (IDE) with an Operating System installed which
did not load. I made changes to SATA from Auto to Combined and Enhanced
with no
success.
In desperation I wrote to zeros on their drive to start afresh but
when there was no communication with the Hard Drive I considered the
failure of the motherboard.
I have warned the Charity that as I don't know why it is now working
then another problem could soon crop up.
Thanks again.
km
Some of the disk manufacturers have hard drive diagnostic programs.
For example, Seagate has downloadable test programs for their
hard drives. Using those tests would verify both the motherboard
and the hard drive, since the data has to flow through both
of them.
I have a Seagate Seatools DOS floppy, I can use to test my Seagate drives.
Not all drive brands offer diagnostic programs, so in some cases, there
isn't anything for download.
Do SATA interfaces fail ? Yes, occasionally. But if the machine has
been in use for a while, then early failures should be eliminated
by now. And by the nature of the design (separate transmit and
receive data paths), there is little that can go wrong from
a protocol perspective. Each data direction has its own wires.
You could zap it with static electricity, but that would still
take some effort, to get at the electrical contacts.
Paul
That Vista was able to install smoothly install persists the thought that
there is clear communication with the hdd, DVD and mb. That Km was suddenly
not able to see a hdd that he had zero'd puts another ? to the problem. The
latest non-beta bios for the drive is F7. I noted the bios updates to see if
there were any communication issues with each change but am unclear in my
own head when Gigabyte says "Support new onboard codec code" to infer you
should flash the bios and see what that brings. In any event here's the link
to their bios page.
http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=2669
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Jan Alter
bearpuf@xxxxxxxxxxx
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