[dba-Tech] Operating system not found

Batteries?  Motherboards still have batteries?

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 3:33 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating system not found

thank you, Helmut, but no,
it was the battery.

Lembit

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helmut Kotsch" <hkotsch at arcor.de>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:34 PM
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
>
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