Hello boys and girls!
My name is Alex, I am a first time poster here. Although this is my first time contributing to the community I have used tom's hardware for various crafts and maintenance.
I am in a predicament.
About 6 months ago my rig (Desktop Computer) began presenting me with 3rd master hard disk errors. I was able to bypass them and restart/reboot my rig enough to where, miraculously, id be able to get windows to boot and everything was stable. My computer wasn't crashing, lagging or slow, etc.
Specs:
M4N68Tv-2 Asus Mobo
620 watt HCG (High current gamer) PSU
HD 6950 (Flashed to a 6970)
amd phenom 965 x4 @ 3.20 Ghz
Western Digital HDD (Came stock with my old HP that i upgraded to what you see here)
A few months ago, we lost power and my rig shut down. I had to restart it multiple times before it would boot to windows and I finally got into the OS. I ran Lifeguard, and about 2-3 other HDD scans and they ALL returned with no errors. My HDD was healthy as a horse...
So, last night, big storm, lost power, RATS! My rig wont boot now. Ive tried everything i feel like. Theres a couple of goofy things going on though... Like, i cannot get into the BIOS while hdd is plugged into the mobo. Once i disconnect the sata cable running from my HD to my MoBo i can get into the bios and tweak the boot priority, etc. But i cannot, for the LIFE of me get into the BIOS while my HD is connected. It is very odd and terribly annoyng.
I dont understand where the "3rd" is coming from. I dont even have 3 sata cables plugged into my motherboard. I honestly have only the ONE from my hdd going to my mobo. I disconnected my cd/dvd drive the last time this happened and figured that it might help. Ive reset the CMOS, replaced the Sata Cable. took apart and reinstalled everything multiple times. Its downright absurd. I JUST upgraded my GPU @ christmas time and BEFORE Xmas it was still doing the 3rd master hd error so im positive it has nothing to do with upgrading the GPU. I just really want to get this taken care of the correct way. I dread putting things off, and i really enjoy going to my friends' houses with my rig and having a lan party. good, good times. But i cannot do that anymore in fear of not being able to start up my computer. If you can help me solve this problem I will be eternally grateful!
~Karben
(Sorry for the Wall of Text :X)
My name is Alex, I am a first time poster here. Although this is my first time contributing to the community I have used tom's hardware for various crafts and maintenance.
I am in a predicament.
About 6 months ago my rig (Desktop Computer) began presenting me with 3rd master hard disk errors. I was able to bypass them and restart/reboot my rig enough to where, miraculously, id be able to get windows to boot and everything was stable. My computer wasn't crashing, lagging or slow, etc.
Specs:
M4N68Tv-2 Asus Mobo
620 watt HCG (High current gamer) PSU
HD 6950 (Flashed to a 6970)
amd phenom 965 x4 @ 3.20 Ghz
Western Digital HDD (Came stock with my old HP that i upgraded to what you see here)
A few months ago, we lost power and my rig shut down. I had to restart it multiple times before it would boot to windows and I finally got into the OS. I ran Lifeguard, and about 2-3 other HDD scans and they ALL returned with no errors. My HDD was healthy as a horse...
So, last night, big storm, lost power, RATS! My rig wont boot now. Ive tried everything i feel like. Theres a couple of goofy things going on though... Like, i cannot get into the BIOS while hdd is plugged into the mobo. Once i disconnect the sata cable running from my HD to my MoBo i can get into the bios and tweak the boot priority, etc. But i cannot, for the LIFE of me get into the BIOS while my HD is connected. It is very odd and terribly annoyng.
I dont understand where the "3rd" is coming from. I dont even have 3 sata cables plugged into my motherboard. I honestly have only the ONE from my hdd going to my mobo. I disconnected my cd/dvd drive the last time this happened and figured that it might help. Ive reset the CMOS, replaced the Sata Cable. took apart and reinstalled everything multiple times. Its downright absurd. I JUST upgraded my GPU @ christmas time and BEFORE Xmas it was still doing the 3rd master hd error so im positive it has nothing to do with upgrading the GPU. I just really want to get this taken care of the correct way. I dread putting things off, and i really enjoy going to my friends' houses with my rig and having a lan party. good, good times. But i cannot do that anymore in fear of not being able to start up my computer. If you can help me solve this problem I will be eternally grateful!
~Karben
(Sorry for the Wall of Text :X)