BIOS will not recognise HDD or DVD

[chopperfixer]

Hi,

If this problem has been posted before, I apologise and maybe somebody can point me to any related posts.

I have just rebuilt my desktop with an MSI K9MM-V motherboard, AMD Athlon LE-1600 Socket AM2 CPU and 2Gb OCZ DDR2 667MHz memory. In addition as I was doing a fresh install of Vista Home Premium I also fitted a new Hitachi 250Gb SATA II drive. DVD fitted is the original which was working OK in the old setup.

My problem is that on boot the system insists that there are no drives found on any of the IDE channels. Neither the HDD or the DVD's show up. In BIOS SATA is set to IDE instead of RAID as there is only one drive.

I fitted a standard PATA drive and disconnected the SATA one and the DVD, but still nothing. I can't believe that every drive is broken. I have been through all the BIOS settings that I can find but to no avail. This isn't the first PC build I've carried out, but this is the first time I've come across this problem. Boot sequence is Floppy, CD, HDD and I can boot from the floppy as I have various boot disks which work OK. Only other item fitted at the moment is an FX5200 graphics card, PSU is Magna 500W, so I wouldn't have thought that wiggly amps were the problem.

Has anyone any thoughts. All suggestions, clean ones of course, will be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance

Chopperfixer.

[cleggypdc]

Have you tried resetting CMOS, you can do this by looking in the manual for reset pins, or you can simply take out the battery.

[chopperfixer]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. At your suggestion have tried the CMOS RAM clearing function on the M/Board, (by shorting links on a three pin header), but no joy, The drives are still unseen by the BIOS.

Chopperfixer.

[cleggypdc]

I really doubt the drives are all faulty. Apart from changing the cables for different ones i'd say there is something wrong with the motherboard. RMA required anyone?

[mac124]

Have you tried the drives individually? Sata drive on its own?

[chopperfixer]

Hi again,

I've got an old computer that I can use to test the drives, except the SATA one as this is the first one I've owned. I've already tried different cables, but will continue my investigations over the weekend.

If all else fails, I'll be onto the Aria web site to request an RMA on Monday, as it's beginning to look like a faulty motherboard.

Chopperfixer.

[chopperfixer]

Hi,

Have finally managed to track down the problem. I spoke to Aria Technical Support, and after going through all the obvious things, most of which I had already tried, but were worth trying again, the tech support guy said that he'd seen this problem before being caused by an unused motherboard support post directly below the IDE socket, shorting out the soldered side of the socket.

Well I will have to eat humble pie, as I'd already been given a RMA number and when I took the M/Board out to send it away, there was the unused support post, under the IDE Socket.:redface:

One quick rebuild later, having removed the offending support, fired up the computer and Vista was being installed before I could say 'shorted IDE socket'.

I have to say well done to the guy I spoke to, he was right on the money.

Anyway one to remember for the future.

Thanks again to all who supplied suggestions to the original post.

Chopperfixer.

[monkey56657]

Lets hope you havnt shorted anything else out :lol:

[coiler]

Hi,

Have finally managed to track down the problem. I spoke to Aria Technical Support, and after going through all the obvious things, most of which I had already tried, but were worth trying again, the tech support guy said that he'd seen this problem before being caused by an unused motherboard support post directly below the IDE socket, shorting out the soldered side of the socket.

Well I will have to eat humble pie, as I'd already been given a RMA number and when I took the M/Board out to send it away, there was the unused support post, under the IDE Socket.:redface:

One quick rebuild later, having removed the offending support, fired up the computer and Vista was being installed before I could say 'shorted IDE socket'.

I have to say well done to the guy I spoke to, he was right on the money.

Anyway one to remember for the future.

Thanks again to all who supplied suggestions to the original post.

Chopperfixer.


Think thats the 10th one ive seen in 2 months on here :lol:

Aria should put a mounting post warning on each board :lol:

*runs off*

[chopperfixer]

Lets hope you havnt shorted anything else out :lol:

It doesn't look like any damage has been done. The computer appears to be working and I'm slowly re-installing all the hardware and software. It would appear at the moment, touch wood, that everything is working, although by posting this I've probably jinxed the whole thing. :lol::lol:

Chopperfixer