Jon Tydda
jon.tydda at alcontrol.com
Fri Apr 11 10:21:22 CDT 2008
The last two I've bought don't, but a lot out there still do apparently. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: 11 April 2008 16:19 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating system not found Batteries? Motherboards still have batteries? Rocky -----Original Message----- 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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. 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