Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Oct 17 12:09:09 CDT 2007
Hi Lembit: A lot of the newer mother boards have SCSII or SATA drive raid controller built in and the only way to permanently remove these features from popping up again next time you run a hardware scan is to disable them at the BIOS level. They can always be turned on again if required. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:42 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating System not found thanks, Jim yes, I found 2 yellow marks in the device manager: one refers to the JVC Video tape controller that I use to digitize the DV tapes. this one goes away when I turn the JVC off, and since the device works all ok, I did nothing about that. the other was SCSI host controller, which was there in addition to the two individual Adaptec AIC 7902 Ultra320 SCSI tried to update the driver for the SCSI host controller - no luck, so I uninstalled it, and so far I dont see any need to reinstall it. so why was it there at all? anyway, no yellow marks now in the device manager. Will have to wait and see whether that fixed the problem. Lembit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating System not found > Hi Lembit: > > It appears that the god of computers is shining on you. Have you checked > Start > My Computer > right-mouse-click > properties > Hardware tab > > Device > Manager Button and then check to see if all hardware devices are > recognized. > The ones that are not, you can have their drivers updated or if they are > not > present on the current machine they will have to be removed from the BIOS > listing. (Reboot > F2 or Del > advanced setting.... but this very machine > dependant.) > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:43 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating System not found > > ok, now dont tell me computers have no soul or life of their own or an own > will ;) > > exchanged the power cables back, and it is working fine still. > so explain this: > - the PC works ok yesterday till afternoon > - then all of a sudden, it wont start (Operating system not found), > checked > it with 3 different HDs that all work. > on all of these Acronis can see the disk and the directories on it. > this morning again the same. > - disconnect 1 pair of HDs and it works > - exchange power connections and reconnect the HDs - still works > - reexchange power connections, so its the same wiring and everything as > yesterday afternoon and this morning, > and the system still works fine. nothing is different from yesterday when > it > > didnt work. > > and now, how do I find the problem???? > > Lembit > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lembit Soobik" <lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:43 PM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating System not found > > >> got it back up, but I question whether this is the solution or just >> temporarily working: >> >> this PC has: >> 1 - one system drive = C: (IDE) - now replaced with a 300GB seagate >> 2 - two SCSI drives in a dynamic stripset =R: >> 3 - two SATA drives on an expansion board S: >> 4 - DVD burner >> 5 - Grapic card Saphire Radeon X1950 Pro >> - Power supply Hiper HPU-4M670-SU (670 W, 720 W peak) - 5 separate >> outputs >> for drives (1-5 above) >> >> What I did so far: >> disconnect power for the SCSI drives >> result: works ok >> >> now I exchanged the power connections of R: and S: >> works ok and I am presently running Check on R: >> >> The 5 +12V-outputs are speced 16A each, 5V is 30A >> all 5 together max 465 W >> assuming 2A per HD, this is roughly half the max allowance. >> >> so, I'm a bit puzzled now, what else could be wrong?????????? >> >> Lembit >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lembit Soobik" <lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> >> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" >> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> >> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:15 PM >> Subject: [dba-Tech] Operating System not found >> >> >>>I am replacing the system disk in one PC with a larger one. >>> I have the original disc intact >>> and I have installed the system on two other disks now and had it >>> running. >>> (made an image of the original disk and restored it to the new disks by >>> running them as slave). >>> Now all of the sudden I get >>> >>> Operating System not found >>> >>> when I try to start it with either one of these disks. >>> when I try to run the PC, I have now only one disk as master connected, >>> and >>> yes the power cable is alse connected and the disk is spinning. >>> >>> Now I started the PC from an Arconis disk, and there I can see the >>> System >>> disk with all the data on it, so it cannot be the cable. >>> What else can suddenly fail such that I get this error? 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