Sometimes I hate my computer

Drako_Dragon

Drako_Dragon

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OK the fan on the power supply was making bad sounds so I only used it when needed. Then one day it wouldn't see the hard drive. Knoppix = life saver. The data is still there but something happed so I won't boot. One new power supply later. Switched out the drive but the computer wouldn't see the new drive. New cable, no go. Only thing I can think is the power supply spiked and took out the IDE channel. I'm not useing the channel and everything seems ok. Anyone have anything like this happen before?
 
> Anyone have
> anything like this happen before?

Yup, last week. I couldn't boot ide0, wouldn't even acknowledge there was even a drive or cd player there. I thought the same thing but just for the hell of it I unplugged my computer and took out the battery on the motherboard for about 15 minutes to clear the bios. Booted up I made all my bios settings again and behold windows boots very quickly without a problem.

You may have a corrupted bios so do what I did above. Also reinstall you motherboard drivers, they could be corrupted also.
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> You may have a corrupted bios so do what I did above.
I'll give it a shot.

> Also reinstall you motherboard drivers, they could be corrupted

Just did a format and windows install on the new drive. again <img src=smilies/upeyes.gif>
 
> > You may have a corrupted bios so do what I did above.
> I'll give it a shot.
>
Well it didn't work. Oh well, thanks anyway <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>
 
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