No Hard Disk Detected

[Ishida]

I haven't bothered to troubleshoot this, but perhaps this issue is causing my slow file transfers. (which used to be pretty fast)

Lately, moving files to different locations on my hard drives and via the fileservers on my network have been moving really slow. Disk defragmentation takes forever on my machine as well, does it even work?

Anyways, I need to figure out what's wrong with my PC, because this PC, spec-wise appears to be awesome.

The problem is, everytime I boot up my machine I get a REALLY brief error saying No Hard Disk detected, and then it boots right up to Windows Vista and I'm sitting at my desk tilting my head some and making a funny noise. How might I be able to resolve this issue?

ASUS P5-K Pro Motherboard.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
4GB of some G.SKILL RAM (don't remmeber exactly, but it is 4GB)
Seagate Barricuda 500GB SATA HD (I can fetch more stats if needed.)
I think everything else is irrelevant.

Also, firefox has been freezing up on me a little as well.
Also2, I dig this parrot.

 

[Harvey]

Have you checked to see if there's an update for your BIOS?

 

[Ishida]

Yes. There is an update for my BIOS, however, none of them appear to be hard drive related. I could go ahead and do the BIOS update, but I'm still a novice/beginner when it comes to all the technical things in a computer; I don't want to break my system in the event I mess up somehow on BIOS updating. But I will go ahead and try if necessary

HD is Sata btw.

 

[redpin]

stragenly enough my specs are exactly the same as yours, apart from the 8 gb ram, im also getting the same error. please let me know how you get along, and if you manage to find a fix for it

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Ishida
Yes. There is an update for my BIOS, however, none of them appear to be hard drive related. I could go ahead and do the BIOS update, but I'm still a novice/beginner when it comes to all the technical things in a computer; I don't want to break my system in the event I mess up somehow on BIOS updating. But I will go ahead and try if necessary

HD is Sata btw.

Word of advice if you flash your BIOS do NOT interrupt the process by powering down your computer. I would download Asus's windows based flashtool which make updating the bios relatively simple. I would personally flash the BIOS to the latest build which usually takes care of problems such as this.

 

[StormSide]

Sounds like you have a sata channel enabled that does not have a drive attached. Look through the sata setup in the bios and disable the ones
you know have no drive attached.

 

[techmanc]

Check your system connectors esp drive connector and there power connector. I have found a lot similar problems for drives that look like their connected properly but were not.