4th master hard disk error?

[aerostalgic]

Yesterday my PC shut off at random for almost no noticable reason. After booting it up it gave me the error in the title, I of course then tried to get into bios(MSI so had to use del key). In general it takes a while to load past the msi logo screen, but after I get past that it begins loading my hard disks. Theres no error popping up for my hard disk as I only have the one plus a additional one however after a few minutes of waiting it gives me a new messagr.

"4th Master HDD SMART Error Press F1 To Resume" but it just gets stuck here. Pressing f1 doesn't prompt anything to occur as if its frozen.

I tried swapping out the 2nd hdd with another I had laying around from a previous PC to no luck. I also tried plugging the cables out and back in several times to also no avail. I dont know if this a problem with my HDD or something with m motherboard. Either way my PC currently is bricked and I cant even get into Bios. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[captaincharisma]

did you try plugging the HDD into another SATA(maybe IDE depending on the age of the PC) port on your motherboard?

 

[littleleo]

Sounds like your boot drive has an issue. Has there been any recent changes to your build? Perhaps change the SATA port on the motherboard and perhaps change the SATA data cable too. If you don't having anything on the spare drive format it and trying using it as your boot drive. If your boot drive is bad perhaps you can get an SSD for boot and for loading a couple of programs fast.

 

[mgallo848]

Unplug all the hard drives for now and see if you can get into the BIOS. If that works then your main HDD is either starting to fail or the OS has become corrupted.

Being that you said "I can't even get into BIOS" it leads me to believe the HDD is bad.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hi aerostalgic,

can you check the hard drive with the diagnostic test of the manufacturer?

Is the HDD detected by the BIOS?