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General Category => PC Upgrade and Repair => Topic started by: Eric on November 07, 2011, 05:14:53 PM

Title: Boca's Comp
Post by: Eric on November 07, 2011, 05:14:53 PM

Is broke.

Will not see the hard drives.????

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: DevilDogUSMC on November 07, 2011, 05:23:18 PM

Your system didn't auto-update your bios did it?

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: butt on November 07, 2011, 05:24:49 PM

lol. Poor Boca... Away on vacation, thinking about all the fun we're having on B3. Only to have you break his computer. Me smells a second B-day present  :P

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: adamshkee on November 07, 2011, 05:25:35 PM

unplug it and plug it back in. fixes the internet everytime. if that doesn't work, hit the top of it really hard a couple of times.

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: boca99 on November 07, 2011, 05:27:55 PM

another present sounds good  ;D

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: snipa on November 07, 2011, 08:27:37 PM

Quote from: adamshkee on November 07, 2011, 05:25:35 PM

if that doesn't work, hit the top of it really hard a couple of times.

percussive maintenance! ;D

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: HokieLoki on November 07, 2011, 11:15:57 PM

Flash your Bios.  Check what Mobo you have then go download the Bios from somewhere, put it on a flash drive, and flash it.  That should do it.

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: butt on November 08, 2011, 04:37:25 AM

Dont mess w/ your bios. if you dont have problems with it now, you soon will.

I've never seen/heard of a bios "going bad"... People fucking it up trying to update it? yes, all the time... But needing to flash it? No. Flashing a bios is for updating your bios in the event of an update from the motherboard manafacture.

Send tarsier a PM, before you do anything.

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: Reaper on November 08, 2011, 06:53:42 AM

"If you build it they will come"
If the problem is the hard drives aren't recognized the first thing I would do is replace the ide/sata cables. Second thing I would do is try another hard drive. Hope that helps.

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: kboucher on November 08, 2011, 11:50:15 AM

I would try this keyboard it might help!

(http://i.imgur.com/JmrdI.jpg)

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: Groovechild on November 08, 2011, 06:52:45 PM

Well, if more than one hard drives are suddenly not recognized, look for the common denominator. Are they one the same rail on the molex? If so, are they both getting power? With the machine on for a couple minutes, do they feel warm? Try using molexes from a different rail. If they get power, try different sata cables, altho that is odd that both would not be recognized simultaneously.
Next isolate if the problem is the southbridge, by moving the sata cables to different sata ports on the motherboard. Any love? If not, mobo needs RMA. You can try BIOS flash, won't hurt since you'll likely RMA anyway, just pay very close attention to the bios update steps.
Next test the hard drives, if you have a SATA to USB adapter (something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156017 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156017)) and check to see if the hard drives are recognized and work.
Conversely, since you have another PC, you can plug the drives into your PC, does your PC see them (shutdown the PC first)?
It's possible possible the power supply rippled and wacked the hard drives, but I doubt it.

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: Eric on November 09, 2011, 06:44:34 PM

Working now.   Wonder boy is back.

Thanks to Reaper, Groove, Loki and Butt for helping. :)

Was the battery, then a little bit of me pulling thinks apart and not putting them back together.  :-[

Title: Re: Boca's Comp
Post by: boca99 on November 09, 2011, 06:49:34 PM

Thanks for the help guys, was starting to get ready for battlefield 4  :P

silly eric breaking things as usual lol