Re: Windose 10

From	felix <me@nothere.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Windose 10
Date	2016-12-26 08:21 +1100
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On Monday, 26 Dec 2016 12:26 AM, felix wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 Dec 2016 5:49 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "felix" <me@nothere.invalid> wrote in message 
>> news:ec95dpF7tbiU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> 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.
>
> ok I'll give that a try tomorrow, thanks
>>
>> 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.
>
> makes sense
>
>>
>> Nothing much shows up with google and that
>> motherboard, ask the manufacturer about it.
>
>

I've established the SATA ports are working. I installed Linux on a DVD 
and booted with a SATA drive connected and I could read the drive and 
load files. seems it's nothing more than a corrupt win10 64 bit installation


-- 
I plan on living forever. So far so good!

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