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Himmler 05-30-2006 02:52 AM

HELP!!!
 
So tonight I get back from my trip, go to start up my computer, and the computer beeps claiming te video card has came unplugged. So I thought no problem Ill just plug it back in. Well I go and plug it in, boot up the computer and it loads up fine to the windows login screen.
Now when I was putting back on the case door my fan hit a wire and when I tried to fix it i accidently unplugged the wire and it hit the wire it was plugged into and the computer just shut off and I am guessing this was caused by a short.
So now Windows will NOT recognize any of my hard drives. I get to the Windows XP loading screen with the blue bar and it just sits there or reboots.
When I went into safe mode I get a blue screen that say

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

So I put in my recovery CD, go to the recovery console, and it will not read any of the hard drives I have. Now here is the funny thing, the BIOS and everything recognized that both hard drives are plugged in or else I wouldn't even get to that point in the Windows loading screen.

Does anyone have any recommendations other than re-installing Windows?
If noone thinks that I can do anything but re-install Windows, any tips on how I can actually re-install it when Windows won't even recongnize any of my hard hard drives?

The hard drives I have are 2xRaptor 76GB 10,000 RPM in RAID 0 and 1 160GB Barracuda. I had to get help installing raid on my ASUS SK8V motherboard so I'd rather not have to re-install Windows since I will probably not be able to get RAID going without help, and I do not want to format my drives under any circumstances.

What should I do? HELP!!!!

1080jibber 05-30-2006 03:13 AM

remove the battery for a few minutes and then put it back and boot again, other than that, i have no idea

Nyck 05-30-2006 05:07 AM

fucked

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185

Pvt Flagg 05-30-2006 11:10 AM

sounds like you may have shorted the PCB on your board ...sometimes when you do that the drives will show up in low power mode..but when you try spinning them up there isent enugh power ..that or for some wierd reason when you shorted somthing you fried the SATA cables ..try replaceing them first ..then go from there

Sniper101 05-30-2006 10:07 PM

[quote="Pvt Flagg":81e2a]sounds like you may have shorted the PCB on your board ...sometimes when you do that the drives will show up in low power mode..but when you try spinning them up there isent enugh power ..that or for some wierd reason when you shorted somthing you fried the SATA cables ..try replaceing them first ..then go from there[/quote:81e2a]

I agree here, sounds like you fried something. first check the cables, then check the jumpers

05-30-2006 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 1080jibber
remove the battery for a few minutes and then put it back and boot again, other than that, i have no idea

before you remove the CMOS battery, you want to write down every single thing in the BIOS screens, as you will have to put it back in, manually. This means how many cylinders/tracks/sectors etc. each hard drive had.

Himmler 05-31-2006 09:40 AM

Took out the battery and put back in and reset the BIOS, now nothing shows on monitor with that video card so I had to replace it with a very old card for now until I figure out why my card just decided not to work. I didn't try anything else but I will try some new cables. If they don't fix the problem, what else should I do? I was thinking power supply but I don't want to throw like $200 into this computer just to fix it.

m00nraker 05-31-2006 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Acideyez
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1080jibber
remove the battery for a few minutes and then put it back and boot again, other than that, i have no idea

before you remove the CMOS battery, you want to write down every single thing in the BIOS screens, as you will have to put it back in, manually. This means how many cylinders/tracks/sectors etc. each hard drive had.

I have never done that, and i have removed the CMOS many times. It just auto detects it, but if you had any changed that you made prior to the battery removal, you will have to set them again.

1080jibber 05-31-2006 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by m00nraker
Quote:

Originally Posted by Acideyez
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1080jibber
remove the battery for a few minutes and then put it back and boot again, other than that, i have no idea

before you remove the CMOS battery, you want to write down every single thing in the BIOS screens, as you will have to put it back in, manually. This means how many cylinders/tracks/sectors etc. each hard drive had.

I have never done that, and i have removed the CMOS many times. It just auto detects it, but if you had any changed that you made prior to the battery removal, you will have to set them again.

same here, i found the only things i had to set were my overclocks

Scorpion -]M15F1T[- 06-01-2006 06:30 AM

http://www.techtips4u.com/kb/sw/SW00014.htm

Himmler 06-02-2006 09:51 AM

[quote="Scorpion -]M15F1T[-":7c012]http://www.techtips4u.com/kb/sw/SW00014.htm[/quote:7c012]If you would've noticed, Windows doesn't recognize the hard drives, so that obviously won't work.

Me = fucked.


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