New Hardware found???

[Plumcuda1]

Ok, so I come home from work, turn my pc on ..... and it wont boot! .... it goes into bios where I see it is not finding my HD ..... errr .... so I reboot .... samething ..... Mind you I am not the smartest person when it comes to doing much in bios, this time in bios I set the data transfer rate to 32 .... I know this should have nothing to do with why my pc cant find my HD but wth ... I reboot ... and it loads windows! ..... Now when windows is finished loading it tells me it found new hardware .... errrrr.... it found a Raid controller..... huh? I have one HD .... Im lost and kinda nervous to turn my PC off again. Is it finding a Raid controller because I messed with the data transfer rate? (I set that in both primary and slave)

Thanks for any input

 

[airfoil]

You probably enabled your motherboard's onboard RAID controller when you messed with the BIOS. All you have to do is disable it again, but I recommend you do this with the aid of the manual.

 

[Plumcuda1]

The only thing I changed was the transfer rate ..... When it was booting up and searching for an IDE controller .... I see Fastrack 378 ..... Ive never seen this until today .... Its an ASUS thing from what Ive found on Google

 

[Ausm]

Sounds like a hard drive controller fried. What is your CPU Speed?

Ausm

 

[Loop2kil]

Originally posted by: airfoil
You probably enabled your motherboard's onboard RAID controller when you messed with the BIOS. All you have to do is disable it again, but I recommend you do this with the aid of the manual.

I agree with this as well, sometimes the bios resets itself to default either by unaware human input or due to instability. you can go back into the bios and disable the onboard raid.

 

[Plumcuda1]

Originally posted by: Loop2kil

Originally posted by: airfoil
You probably enabled your motherboard's onboard RAID controller when you messed with the BIOS. All you have to do is disable it again, but I recommend you do this with the aid of the manual.

I agree with this as well, sometimes the bios resets itself to default either by unaware human input or due to instability. you can go back into the bios and disable the onboard raid.

Well ... I am positive that I was not messing with the bios .... so maybe it reset itself .... I'll go and see if I can find where to disable the Raid ...

 

[Fern]

Just a guess, cuz this sounds kinda goofy, but anyway that when you exited BIOS you clicked on "Set to default" (which is like clearing the cmos) line which is often one below or above the "Exit and Save Changes" .

If you "miss clicked" the wrong line like that, it would reset the onboard SATA back to enabled

 

[Plumcuda1]

When I exited I hit F10 ..... so I couldnt have misclicked ....