BIOS stuck at detecting SATA drive.

[GamerLegendAlou]

So I am a 13 year old whose only thing to do in house is either do his homework, Read a novel series Harry Potter which I have read 5 times!!! Or play on my PC.
So this is what happenes:-
Morning I copied a file to me Pendrive and shutdown the PC. In he evening my friends say lets play Critical-Ops so i turn on my pc and the measage comes:- Auto Detecting ACHI/RAID drive on SATA 3...
And gets stuck like that until the timeout.
Im quiet a teck geek so I tried a few things like i changed the sata port, changed the cable, Changed it to IDE from ACHI and all in vain. I knew the harddisk was getting power 'cause it was kindof vibrating and it was connected to the same MOLEX port as my external fans are connected to and the fans were working. My Specs (Not such a great RIG btw(2012))
Intel 540 i3 3.06GHz (Clarkdale)
4gigs RAM
Nvidia 210 Graphics Card
Some unknown company's Intel H-55 Chipset Mobo
Segate Barracuda 500GB HHD.
All I want is somebody to answer cause i gotta wait till next sunday to take it for checkup. And by that time I will surely die of boredom..
Thanks.
Yours Lovingly,
Albert
GamerLegendAlou

 

[theradeonxt]

Hi there,

Do you remember which setting you had in your BIOS before this, AHCI or IDE?

I suggest the following:
1. Unplug pretty much ALL storage drives.
2. Power on, This should get you to the BIOS screen.
3. Here set AHCI or IDE, depending on how you had it before (You can retry from step 1 if you don't remember).
4. Save, reset, power off.
5. Reconnect storage, power on and see if it boots up.

 

[GamerLegendAlou]

Hey theradeonxd,
I said that i changedit ro IDE and vise-versa. Any othee ways? I originally installed it on IDE and then I chamged it to ACHI by putting windows to safe mode and then back to normal startup. Its be3n working fine for a few months on ACHI