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    Can’t see hard drive

    Can’t see hard drive

    Gigabyte 925XE – GA-81925XE-G

    Some time ago I installed an additional HD. This board works as SATA 2 – so really easy: install & go etc.

    However, I later (I think) got an error message saying “OC fail, please enter setup & change OC fail settings”. I merrily worked along, by hitting F1 & it bypassed that & worked fine. Until I thought I’d try & fix it. -- What a prat!

    I looked up various on-line forums who suggested resetting the BIOS – take out the battery for a while & reload the defaults & all will be well. It isn’t. It’s well & truly sick now! The system keeps reverting to the “GigaRAID setup utility”. It’s not that happy to allow me back to the main BIOS settings. I ran an XP recovery disc, the main upshot being it can’t find the hard drives.

    What now? Help. Please.

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    When you reset BIOS did you unplug power cable, and pressed power button a few times?

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    yes - as I had to undo the case

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    • starbuck's system
      • Motherboard:
      • P5K Deluxe Wi-Fi
      • CPU:
      • E6600
      • Memory:
      • 4gb
      • Storage:
      • 2x500gb Samsung spinpoint in raid 0, 320gb diamondmax SATA
      • Graphics card(s):
      • GT240
      • PSU:
      • Enermax Galaxy 850watt
      • Case:
      • Silverstone TJ05
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 7 Home Premium
      • Monitor(s):
      • 20" Dell(rebadged sony) trinitron CRT
      • Internet:
      • 20mb cable internet connection
    is it a new hard drive? also, when you took the battery out, did you move the cmos jumper?
    I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem.

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    Hi - thanks for your response

    The HD is the HD that came with the system (partioned into 2 plus another extra HD too) - All I think I've done, is remove & replace the battery & trying to reset the bios

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    • starbuck's system
      • Motherboard:
      • P5K Deluxe Wi-Fi
      • CPU:
      • E6600
      • Memory:
      • 4gb
      • Storage:
      • 2x500gb Samsung spinpoint in raid 0, 320gb diamondmax SATA
      • Graphics card(s):
      • GT240
      • PSU:
      • Enermax Galaxy 850watt
      • Case:
      • Silverstone TJ05
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 7 Home Premium
      • Monitor(s):
      • 20" Dell(rebadged sony) trinitron CRT
      • Internet:
      • 20mb cable internet connection
    near the battery there should be a 3 pin jumper, always having 2 pins covered. If you look closely, it should mention CMOS. Unplug the power, unplug the battery move the jumper onto the other pin(ie if it is covering pins 1 and 2 change it to cover 2 and 3). Leave it like this for about 15 seconds then change it back(VERY IMPORTANT you do this), reinstall the battery and the power cable and this should reset everything. Go into setup and see what it detects.

    I had this prob with my new rig, that it wouldn't always see my second hard drive. What seemed to be causing it was that is was the drive I used to use in my old sys and therefore had a windows install and boot partition on it. As soon as I got rid of this, it worked everytime.
    I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem.

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    • starbuck's system
      • Motherboard:
      • P5K Deluxe Wi-Fi
      • CPU:
      • E6600
      • Memory:
      • 4gb
      • Storage:
      • 2x500gb Samsung spinpoint in raid 0, 320gb diamondmax SATA
      • Graphics card(s):
      • GT240
      • PSU:
      • Enermax Galaxy 850watt
      • Case:
      • Silverstone TJ05
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 7 Home Premium
      • Monitor(s):
      • 20" Dell(rebadged sony) trinitron CRT
      • Internet:
      • 20mb cable internet connection
    also, try unplug the 2nd hard drive and see if it boots. If it does, go into the bios. Got a feeling your board could be expecting a raid setup due to the sata port you have plugged the 2nd drive into. You can disable raid in the bios and maybe try using a different sata port(my ports are colour coded so I have red for primary drives and black for data - still took me a while to sort(until I realised I had to delete 2nd version of windows).
    I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem.

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    Hi - thanks for that

    Still trying to find the jumper (??!)

    My Sata connectors are just marked = 0,1,2,3 --- O being the master drive

    However, the system won't see the master drive, let alone the second one !

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    I have found two bare pins marked "clr CMOS" - which I've shorted together plus taken out the battery plus re connected, minus second hard drive

    At the CMOS section it can see the HD - but thereafter it gets lost - still thinks there isn't a HD (?)

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    You probably need to set the RAID controller to present itself as IDE or similar rather than RAID - this is why the system is not finding a bootable drive.

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