Someone Explain this to Me

[BDawg]

This morning, I woke up to find my computer had rebooted itself and was saying, "Insert bootable media." My first idea was the HD died, so I tried to restart. I got the same thing, so I unplugged my DVD drive and CD-RW just to make sure. This time, when I reset the computer, there was no video, but I could hear the HD booting into windows. After I heard the HD stop scratching, I pressed the power key which told XP to shutdown. After it did, I plugged the DVD and CD drives back in and got it to boot again with no video.

Then, I reseated the video card (Leadtek GF 3 Ti 200) and tried again, but no luck. I then inserted my old GF 256 DDR and everything works perfectly.

The question I have, if the video card was the problem, why did this start with a "Insert bootable media" and then the video functioned before I unplugged my drives?

 

[Bartman39]

If the video card died it most likely casused a resource conflict... (possibly not allowing the boot drive to be seen or seen as something different...?) When componets die or become unserviceable they can cause strange things to happen... 🙁

Also

<< "Insert bootable media." >>

applies to the floppy drive (reverts to a drive in your boot order)

 

[BDawg]

<< If the video card died it most likely casused a resource conflict... (possibly not allowing the boot drive to be seen or seen as something different...?) When componets die or become unserviceable they can cause strange things to happen... 🙁 >>



So what you're saying is that as it was dying, it cause a resource conflict that kept my machine from detecting the HD. When I did a hard power cycle, it just gave up the ghost?

 

[Bartman39]

Very possible but I would test the video card in another machine as well... 😉 Remember the GF3 cards take a 2.0 AGP slot so be sure to test it in one... Might also be your video card is under warranty...?

Best of luck...