Cant access bios or boot menu of any kind. Boot device led?

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SmugBuffalo 2013. júl. 23., 16:19

So the other day I posted this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgM.68jCz2DqHp.a3mvDj_AazKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20130721110020AAiLnRp

I tried restarting my computer just after I posted the question. Now my computer will not start up properly. All I see is a black screen and the motherboards BOOT_DEVICE_LED is solid red. I tried getting into bios. Did not work. Iv reset CMOS. Did not work. Iv unplugged everything and replugged. Did not work. However I am sometimes able to get into bios if I unplug the hard drive and reset CMOS. So i can only get into bios with out the hard drive plugged in. After I reset it after getting into bios it just says: reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. Which does nothing.

Im unsure if anything is even going to work because I cant get anything to work with the hard drive plugged in anyways.

Im looking into erasing the hard drive but again I can not access bios or boot to cd with hard drive plugged in.

Im not against someone contacting me directly to maybe help me troubleshoot this.

Icanbreached@hotmail.com
or contact me in steam

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Snoopy 2013. júl. 23., 16:23

IDE or SATA Drive?

SmugBuffalo 2013. júl. 23., 16:24

SATA

Snoopy 2013. júl. 23., 16:26

Your drive may be bad, but with a sata drive you can try booting from cd with just the power cable connected to the sata drive, just as soon as it starts loading plug the data cable in.
this may get it to boot and allow you to re-install from cd.

added: or run diags from a cd on your drive
1 more: try a different sata port

Legutóbb szerkesztette: Snoopy; 2013. júl. 23., 16:28

SmugBuffalo 2013. júl. 23., 16:29

can i make a boot disk for a pc on a mac? thats all i have atm.

Snoopy 2013. júl. 23., 16:30

sorry, don't know mac at all :(

Snoopy 2013. júl. 23., 16:32

do you have windows install cd? try booting from that with the above method.

SmugBuffalo 2013. júl. 23., 19:03

i cant seem to get any progress. if i plug the hard drive nothing else works. I think the hard drive is done. :/

Snoopy 2013. júl. 23., 19:07

Even if just the power is plugged in and not both power/data?
Can you hear or feel the drive spin while it's got power?

SmugBuffalo 2013. júl. 23., 19:15

yeah i can feel it spinning

Snoopy 2013. júl. 23., 19:17

So if you try to boot the system with just the power connected to the drive and not the data does it boot then? and if it boots, it then dies as soon as you connect the data cable?

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SmugBuffalo 2013. júl. 23., 19:27

If I just have the power in the hard drive it goes directly to bios. Do you want me to plug the data cable in wile the the computer is running?

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Snoopy 2013. júl. 24., 3:59

Yes, the idea here is to plug the data cable in as soon as possible, trying to hit the point between booting and the bios attempting to read the data from the drive.

If you have a windows install cd in the cd-rom drive and you can get it to boot this way you can use the partitioning utility on the cd to wipe the drive's existing partition and create a new one and reinstall the OS.

You should be able to use your mac to locate some disk utilities on the net, preferrably one that can be written to disk and made bootable, then you can boot from that and try using the util on the drive to possibly repair any errors/bad sectors on the drive that are preventing it from starting up when it's fully plugged in.

One of the best I've found is HDD Regenerator, I've had about an 80% success rate recovering bad drives with this utility. The Demo version can be made bootable and can be put onto a flash drive (if your bios supports booting from flash). The Demo only allows you to recover the first bad sector found, but you can run it a second time to recover the next 'first' bad sector. If you only have 2 or 3 bad sectors in the boot area of the drive this should work, you just need to run it a few times.

HDD Regenerator: http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html

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