Hardware problem

[tq_69er]

I have very limited knowledge in computer hardwear so your going to have to take things slowly.

 

 

 

On thursday morning the computer was running fine, viruses scans checked out firewall was on and the only connection to the internet was the forums being opened.

 

 

 

Thursday afternoon i got home, turned the computer

 

 

 

- the first screen appeared, the one that checks the IDE Drives

 

 

 

- second appeared, the one that checks the PCI Devices listening

 

 

 

Than the message of

 

Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter

 

 

 

Now i researched this problem first, and attempted to fix it myself, some of these solutions were:

 

 

 

- Accessing the bios on start up, and checking that the hard drive was the first in the boot order.

 

 

 

- Just time, let it stand for an hour and it didnt pass the error message

 

 

 

I had no choice but to put the system disk in, upon doing so while it gathered information the following occured

 

 

 

SysC810.sys is corrupted, restarted the computer and ran the disk again

 

 

 

Sym_hi.sys is corrupted, restarted the computer and ran the disk again

 

 

 

UsbHub.sys is corrupted, restarted the computer and ran the disk again

 

 

 

It finally completed the gathering the required information, than gave me the option of formatting or repairing. On choosing either it came up with a further error message of

 

Windows cannot find a hard drive

 

 

 

I removed the ram stick(512) replacing it with a 256 from another working computer. It returned the same error. I tried the 512 in the other computer it ran fine.

 

 

 

I removed the hard drive (120 Gb) it runs on a sato cord. Replacing it with a 60Gb one which plugged into an IDE connector. Runnning it same error appeared.

 

 

 

Im out of ideas, and looking for any advice.

 

 

 

I have a gigabyte pent. 4 titan series GA-81848P(-L) motherboard.

 

 

 

thanks

[Stuart_G]

Some thing does sound awefully wrong. It could be a problem with your motherboard. Thats the only thing i could think that may affect two hard drive running different connectors.

 

 

 

Other than that, if its really got you stumped, take it into a local repair joint and get them to take a look.

[cyber_demon12]

Yes, it probably has something to do with your motherboard. One of my old computers had the same problem when i upgraded it to Windows XP and I have tried all those you stated above and i got tired of it so i just got rid of the motherboard.

 

 

 

Anyways, just take it into a computer tech place like the other guy said and have them take a look at it. You could just be missing a jumper or something on your motherboard could of gotten corrupted...

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Cyber_Demon12