Posting my story from last night, any advice is welcome.
Last night I decided to try to fix my blue screen errors with my Sony DRU-510a burner. It had been giving me problems from the beginning but I had another optical drive installed so I didn't sweat it. But last night I was feeling ambitious and decided to flash new firmware, install a new IDE round cable, then to top everything off, I flashed ASUS BIOS 1011.
Flashing the firmware went fine. I then flashed the new BIOS and booted into Windows without any problems. So, I opened up the case to replace the IDE cable. I powered the system off normally then switched off my power supply before unplugging all the cables (I mention this as it may be relevant later). Inside the case, I to unplug 1 power cable to my video card, and the power cable to my master SATA hard drive. Swapped out the round cable, hooked everything back up and was good to go.
Here the problems start. First, upon boot up I get a warning during POST about my overclock and the computer restarts. This time the computer boots all the way into Windows but its obvious there are serious problems, so I shut down to restart and go back to default settings. At this, being careless while talking to a friend and drinking a beer, I miss the POST and the comp tries to boot into Windows again, but this time with an error:
Corrupted or missing system32/DRIVER/pci.sys
This was new, so I tried to reboot and see if I got the same error and sure enough the problem was real.
Next, I tried to boot from my Windows XP cd to try to repair the corrupted file, but the message I got was that my C drive was corrupted. 🙁 I then booted into BIOS and saw that my drive was no longer detected in the BIOS (it was on SI SATA port 3, I had problems with the drive when building it with the nvidea sata ports). Being very frustrated and tired with work in 5 hours I decided to call it a night. The last thing I tried was hooking the drive up to the Nvidea SATA controller and the BIOS picked it up, but I could still not boot into windows and was getting a warning that no HD was detected (this was after the SI raid prompt and the message had been coming up after i unplugged all my other HDs).
I dont know why my HD would just go corrupt out of nowhere. One idea is that after the new bios didnt like my overclock, it was not writing to my RAM correctly and during a power down, it did not transfer files back to my HD. But if the HD is infact dead, then why would this happen from just replacing an IDE cable and flashing bios?
I know this is a long post, but i wanted to include as many details as possible. I don't know whether a reformat would fix the problem or do I need to try to RMA the HD. Please, any advice is welcome.
And by the way my system is:
A8N-SLI Deluxe on 1011 BIOS
Athlon 64 3200 running at 2.4Ghz
Patriot 1GB (2 x 512MB) PDC1G3200+XBLK running with 2.5-4-4-7 timing
BFG 6800GT
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB SATA
Last night I decided to try to fix my blue screen errors with my Sony DRU-510a burner. It had been giving me problems from the beginning but I had another optical drive installed so I didn't sweat it. But last night I was feeling ambitious and decided to flash new firmware, install a new IDE round cable, then to top everything off, I flashed ASUS BIOS 1011.
Flashing the firmware went fine. I then flashed the new BIOS and booted into Windows without any problems. So, I opened up the case to replace the IDE cable. I powered the system off normally then switched off my power supply before unplugging all the cables (I mention this as it may be relevant later). Inside the case, I to unplug 1 power cable to my video card, and the power cable to my master SATA hard drive. Swapped out the round cable, hooked everything back up and was good to go.
Here the problems start. First, upon boot up I get a warning during POST about my overclock and the computer restarts. This time the computer boots all the way into Windows but its obvious there are serious problems, so I shut down to restart and go back to default settings. At this, being careless while talking to a friend and drinking a beer, I miss the POST and the comp tries to boot into Windows again, but this time with an error:
Corrupted or missing system32/DRIVER/pci.sys
This was new, so I tried to reboot and see if I got the same error and sure enough the problem was real.
Next, I tried to boot from my Windows XP cd to try to repair the corrupted file, but the message I got was that my C drive was corrupted. 🙁 I then booted into BIOS and saw that my drive was no longer detected in the BIOS (it was on SI SATA port 3, I had problems with the drive when building it with the nvidea sata ports). Being very frustrated and tired with work in 5 hours I decided to call it a night. The last thing I tried was hooking the drive up to the Nvidea SATA controller and the BIOS picked it up, but I could still not boot into windows and was getting a warning that no HD was detected (this was after the SI raid prompt and the message had been coming up after i unplugged all my other HDs).
I dont know why my HD would just go corrupt out of nowhere. One idea is that after the new bios didnt like my overclock, it was not writing to my RAM correctly and during a power down, it did not transfer files back to my HD. But if the HD is infact dead, then why would this happen from just replacing an IDE cable and flashing bios?
I know this is a long post, but i wanted to include as many details as possible. I don't know whether a reformat would fix the problem or do I need to try to RMA the HD. Please, any advice is welcome.
And by the way my system is:
A8N-SLI Deluxe on 1011 BIOS
Athlon 64 3200 running at 2.4Ghz
Patriot 1GB (2 x 512MB) PDC1G3200+XBLK running with 2.5-4-4-7 timing
BFG 6800GT
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB SATA
