| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
|
 Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
| blackjack wrote: |
i ran the seagate desktop which boots up instead of the bios and it detected both drives fine, it then did a test on both drives and the controllers and reported all ok. So it seems the drives are ok and so i am thinking it is not a hardware issue. I have noticed since i have installed the new bios in the IDE settings where once it said
SATA -AHCI (old setting)
it now says
SATA - RAID
do i need to change this? |
no. you want it as SATA-Raid.
What's the status on the second harddrive? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
okay something strange the second hard drive shows up in seagate desktop (which runs in DOS), it shows up in bios in the boot menu under harddrives option as one of the options to boot from. it also shows up as the only drive in the RAID bios menu (after pressing control A) after the screen which says startup F2 Boot F11 has gone. So the drive works has power and no errors according to seagate desktop.
one of the options in the RAID Bios menu was rebuild Raid Array, give it a shot? or any other ideas?
Cheers |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
so i gave up and went to the computer shop, he was great, still took about 3/4 of an hour but it was something to do with drivers and he also changed the cable set up and now it works perfect, he did some thing else it now loads in half the time, cleaned it and the best thing was the price he would not take any money, i tried to give him money but he would not take it. he did say tell your friends 
but i would just like to say a big thank you to cubanloard we need more people on this board like you. Cheers cubanloard
i have learnt alot about computers over the past couple of days
so till next time i do something stupid with my computer (you are meant to clean the insides with hot soppy water right ) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| blackjack wrote: |
so i gave up and went to the computer shop, he was great, still took about 3/4 of an hour but it was something to do with drivers and he also changed the cable set up and now it works perfect, he did some thing else it now loads in half the time, cleaned it and the best thing was the price he would not take any money, i tried to give him money but he would not take it. he did say tell your friends
but i would just like to say a big thank you to cubanloard we need more people on this board like you. Cheers cubanloard
i have learnt alot about computers over the past couple of days
so till next time i do something stupid with my computer (you are meant to clean the insides with hot soppy water right ) |
No problem. I believe in (what was that movie again) "Paying it forward?" Anyways, I'm glad the computer guy was great. many times, these dudes don't know diddly. That really is good! Glad to see everything else is ok! Remember....ground yourself!  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Ramones
Joined: 23 Oct 2006
Location: In Hell in my own mind...
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| blackjack wrote: |
the best thing was the price he would not take any money, i tried to give him money but he would not take it. he did say tell your friends
) |
Blackjack - it's nice you met an honest nice businessman!
I was riding my mountain bike around Quanzhou one day and was about 10 miles form home when I lost some critical parts on my seat. i saw a bike shop and pointed and grunted to the dude what the issue was. he fixed it and wouldn't take any money for his work. I noticed it was lunch time and rode down the block and bought him a cold beer. After the 3 polite refusals he accepted the beer. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Ramones wrote: |
| I noticed it was lunch time and rode down the block and bought him a cold beer. After the 3 polite refusals he accepted the beer. |
Maybe he was a recovering alcoholic. Pusher. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
