Ide controller

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I think I have a problem with the onboard IDE controller of my six years old
Gateway desktop. All of a sudden my two hard drives connected to bus 0
don't show up. (There is nothing in the bios) and when I boot, I get the
message "Operating System not found". The two devices connected to bus 1 do
show up in the bios. What can be done about this?

 

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Neal Stoughton wrote:
> I think I have a problem with the onboard IDE controller of my six years old
> Gateway desktop. All of a sudden my two hard drives connected to bus 0
> don't show up. (There is nothing in the bios) and when I boot, I get the
> message "Operating System not found". The two devices connected to bus 1 do
> show up in the bios. What can be done about this?
>

First. reconnect or replace the IDE ribbon. Second would be to check the
drive which contains your OS. Also make sure you don't have a disk in
the floppy drive

FC

 

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by a dead or dying battery unable to keep the information accurate stored in the
motherboard CMOS... Ben Myers

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:59:18 +0100, Neal Stoughton <nmstough@uci.edu> wrote:

>I think I have a problem with the onboard IDE controller of my six years old
>Gateway desktop. All of a sudden my two hard drives connected to bus 0
>don't show up. (There is nothing in the bios) and when I boot, I get the
>message "Operating System not found". The two devices connected to bus 1 do
>show up in the bios. What can be done about this?
>

 

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Also try one drive at a time - one dead drive can render the whole chain
invisible.



"Fireclown" <Fireclown@spamblock.com> wrote in message
news:3138njF36bq4kU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Neal Stoughton wrote:
> > I think I have a problem with the onboard IDE controller of my six years
old
> > Gateway desktop. All of a sudden my two hard drives connected to bus 0
> > don't show up. (There is nothing in the bios) and when I boot, I get
the
> > message "Operating System not found". The two devices connected to bus
1 do
> > show up in the bios. What can be done about this?
> >
>
> First. reconnect or replace the IDE ribbon. Second would be to check the
> drive which contains your OS. Also make sure you don't have a disk in
> the floppy drive
>
> FC