• Newly built computer not booting into BIOS
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I have recently finished with the hardware aspect of my computer, but now I need to work on the software side, and I'm having problems. The first time I started it up, it booted fine, and went into the BIOS. The thing is, I chose a hard drive from it to boot from- and now it isn't letting me boot into the BIOS. It simply says [code]no hard disk detected[/code] and then it flashes a wall of text. After that, it says [code]Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key[/code] Any idea what's causing this, an why I can't boot into the BIOS?
I had the same problem when the main hard disk's jumpers weren't arranged into the "MASTER" position. and the other disks should be "SLAVE"s
One of my hard drives doesn't even have jumper pins, and the one that does doesn't have a jumper to do it with. Why would it work the first time, but not any subsequent times? [editline]4th August 2011[/editline] Does anyone know what could be causing this error on startup? It's preventing me from getting my computer working.
All I can say is spam the BIOS enter key when the computer starts up. If that doesn't work, then unplug the power connector from the computer power supply. There should be a battery on your mother board take that out wait 30 seconds then put it back in the right way, that should reset the bios. Then spam the BIOS enter key.
I was able to finally get this to work, and I'm actually posting from my new computer. The only problem is the fact that it's not recognising the hard drive that isn't being used to boot, so the only hard drive I have is the measly 60 GB one that I'm using for the OS. I can see it in the BIOS, but not the actual computer, any idea what's causing it?
Open disk manager (Start->search->disk manager) and give us a picture of it. I'm fairly sure you simply need to format it.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/29lF8.png[/img]
rightclick on the black stuff and press new volume, then follow the steps till you have a new ntfs partition.
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;31543033]rightclick on the black stuff and press new volume, then follow the steps till you have a new ntfs partition.[/QUOTE] Thanks, it's working now.
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