Re: Windose 10

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Windose 10
Date	2016-12-25 17:49 +1100
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"felix" <me@nothere.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On Sunday, 25 Dec 2016 12:06 AM, felix wrote:
>> On Saturday, 24 Dec 2016 10:09 PM, Grumpy Tech wrote:
>>> On 24/12/2016 7:59 PM, felix wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 23 Dec 2016 10:28 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>>> felix <me@nothere.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> I've now determined that the problem is that the none of the SATA 
>>>>>> ports
>>>>>> are working. the hard drive is not being seen and not showing up in 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> bios. so I assume that can only mean the SATA ports are cactus, as 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> drive has power.
>>>>> Ok it has power, but have you tried it in another PC to see whether 
>>>>> the
>>>>> control electronics have thrown in the towl?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any chance that the BIOS settings have got scrambled due to some
>>>>> glitch or a failing backup battery and the SATA controller's simply
>>>>> disabled?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it's showing up in the 'boot' section of the bios, and at startup on 
>>>> the
>>>> blank black screen, but it's not showing as detected on the sata port 
>>>> in
>>>> bios
>>>>
>>> That's probably because your Bios is in AHCI mode
>>
>> it is
>>
>>> which won't show drives there. Change the Bios to legacy mode and see if 
>>> you can get it to boot
>>
>> still won't boot and still doesn't show on the sata port
>>
>>> (Needs to be under 2tb).
>>
>> 1Tb
>>
>>> It's not a faulty MB. It sounds like the standard windows boot sector 
>>> issue, which could indicate a drive that has a failed boot sector or the 
>>> bcd file has been corrupted. Put it in your other machine on another 
>>> sata port and run from an admin dos prompt chkdsk x: /r where x: is the 
>>> drive letter given to the drive by your machine. It may resolve the 
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> You could also try this
>>>
>>> Open Command Prompt from Advanced Startup Options or System Recovery 
>>> Options menu. Note: The Command Prompt available from these diagnostic 
>>> menus is very similar to the one you may be familiar with within 
>>> Windows. ...
>>> At the prompt, type the bootrec command as shown below and then press 
>>> Enter: bootrec /rebuildbcd.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok, thanks I'll try those after Xmas. see, you are good for something 
>> after all.. :)
>>
>>
>
> couldn't wait. I tried it last night. no different. btw.. the win10 
> message I get is 'inaccessible boot device' which still seems to indicate 
> a hardware problem

That's just saying it can't see a boot drive.

I'd reset the cmos and see if the SATA ports work again.

Very unlikely to be a hardware failure with all 8 sata ports
going missing given that 6 of them are on 1 chip and the
other two are on a different one.

Nothing much shows up with google and that
motherboard, ask the manufacturer about it.

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