Lembit Soobik
lembit.dbamail at t-online.de
Fri Apr 11 05:32:23 CDT 2008
Hey Jon, not silly at all. you hit the nail on the head (or the battery :) ) the only silly here is me, not thinking of that. Thank you so much. You saved me from buying a new MB. Lembit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Tydda" <jon at tydda.plus.com> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating system not found > Might sound silly, but have you checked the battery on the motherboard? > > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut Kotsch > Sent: 10 April 2008 20:35 > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating system not found > > Lembit, > I had the same problem some time ago. Assuming that you have an AMI BIOS > the > solution was as follows: > > + Enter the BIOS setup during Boot with F2 Go to menu "BOOT" > + Go to the submenu "Hard Disk Drives" and hit Enter Here you can see > + which of your drives the BIOS sees as your 1st, 2nd or > 3rd Drive. > + BIOS will always select the 1st Drive to BOOT. > + Make sure that the 1st Drive is the one you want to boot from. The > selection menu shows prefixes like HDD: PM-xxxxxxx (Primary Master) or > HDD:PS-xxxxxxx (Primary Slave) > + My problem was, that the BIOS for whatever reasons swapped the > + sequence of > these drives when playing with the boot device. I have not figured out why > this happened but could reproduce the problem. > + After getting this straightened out and having the first Boot device > + set > to HDD the problem was fixed. > Summary: In addition to seeing the disks during BOOT, and having set the > 1st > Boot Device to HDD you also have to make sure that the sequence of your > hard > disks is set to make the desired one as the first Drive. > > Helmut > > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Lembit Soobik > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 19:34 > An: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Betreff: [dba-Tech] Operating system not found > > > I've got a PC with real puzzling behaviour: > suddenly it tells me at boot time: Operating system not found. > Now this would indicate that either the HD is gone bad or > disconnected,but: > The BIOS shows the HD is there. > then I started it with ACRONIS True Image. > Acronis shows the disk and contents and lets me do an image to a differnt > PC, no problem here. > So I took a different HD from another PC which has WinXP on it. > Same problem - Operating system not found. > Yes I tried a different cable - nothing. > So I took an old HD, connected it instead of the original and started to > install winXP on that. > What happened: > It recognized the HD, let me erase it, make a partition, format it and > copied the files and initialized configuration. > Then it has to restart.... > instead of continuing the installation, it started over. That means, it > did > not see the HD at boot time (although BIOS does show it). > > now I started the WinXP install again, and when it did the restart, I took > the WinXP CD out. > Here it should have asked for the CD, but it told me Operating System NOT > FOUND again. > > So, it can read and write to the disk, but it won't recognise any OS. > > now I hooked the disk up to IDE2 - this is where it recognized the Acronis > disk as well as the WinXP disk, but NO, it does not find the OS there > either, although BIOS sees the HD. > > to complete the tests I have now connected the CD drive to IDE1 and found, > I > can run Acronis fine. > > so the problem is, it will not recognize an OS on a HD, but it will run > from > a CD, no matter whether on IDE1 or 2. > > Does anybody have an idea? or do I have to replace the MB? > > any suggestions welcome > > thanks > Lembit > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.11/1368 - Release Date: > 09.04.2008 16:20 > >