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Solve : motherboard is confused!? |
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Answer» Hello, A SATA hard drive can be seen by the BIOS as an IDE drive depending on how it was initially setup...First thank you for your response, ok i began to have problems with the pc, it had become unstable, so following advice from the microsoft site, i re-installed the os,it seemed solve the problem of unstability however the fan began racing and upon reboot it would not allow cd/dvd repair due to "checksum(s) not matching", so i abandoned the cd method, ran chk dsk and 2 passes with mem diag. tool (no prob. with either), restarted and it would not boot at all! the error said the HAL DLL was missing or corrupt. so i puchased a new hard drive and am now at this point, upon powering up, the screen looks like this: GATEWAY INTEL BOOT options F10 BIOS settings F2 it will not GO past that screen and pressing either option does nothing, restarting w/ ctrl+alt+del then pressing f2 brought up a new screen, "boot agent" and that is where i saw the connections in my original post, if i have somehow pushed the wrong button at the wrong time and all is lost i would be crushed so i hope there is a solution to this problem.Checksum errors can be caused by a weak /failing CMOS battery...replace it. Part #CR2032 available anywhere... Unplug all power to the machine for installation. |
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