[SOLVED] need help bad

**mike2020learnin** · 04-21-2007, 07:32 PM

i have my nephews pc to wich the hard drive had to be erased because it had to many viruses/ trojans/ worms/ spyware ect... the software was unstable and took 45 min. to load , so we used kill disk to wipe clean , installed windows then on last reboot of instalation it stated that icould not find hard drive / floppydrive / cd-rom / i am still able to enter the bios buts that it any advice would help , intel motherboard , with a intel pentium 3 / 550 MHz / 40 GB hard drive , the pc was bought at a place like Rent-A -Center, the name on the case is Proteva/ Windows 98 SE / 256 MB memory , this all i can tell you for the motherboard only says Intel

**Deleted090308** · 04-22-2007, 12:23 AM

Hi,
Unplug the computer and open the case. Check all cables and connections inside the case and reset BIOS. The easiest way to reset BIOS is to remove the little lithium battery for a minute and then put it back in again (the computer has to be unplugged for this to work).

Nicholas

**mike2020learnin** · 04-22-2007, 12:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eneles

Hi,
Unplug the computer and open the case. Check all cables and connections inside the case and reset BIOS. The easiest way to reset BIOS is to remove the little lithium battery for a minute and then put it back in again (the computer has to be unplugged for this to work).

Nicholas

thanks but i have done that , i have done every thing that i can think of , what i did do is put another harddrive in from one of my trashed pc in and it did the same thing and it was about the same age , both of these pc's are 8 yrs old , they are for a 10yr old to learn on , i'm thinking that it's trash but i was asked to try and fix it , every thing worked fine til about a mounth ago when the antivirus exspired for 2 to 2&1/2 weeks then it started to degrade rapidly, really rapidly , i am looking for sound advice to gine my brother so as not to hurt my nephew for this was his only chance to have one

**Deleted090308** · 04-22-2007, 01:09 AM

Do you "see" the drives in BIOS? Are the IDE channels set to auto?

**mattlock** · 04-22-2007, 01:18 AM

Hello again Mike.

Try disconnecting the cdrom and floppy drive and see if it'll recognize the hard drive. I had this happen once testing some CDrom drives to see if they were good. I connected one of them and nothing was recognized. Disconnected and booted up with no problem.

Keep us posted on your progress.

Matt

04-21-2007, 07:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
mike2020learnin Mentor, Microsoft Support Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Michigan , I donated so can you Posts: 3,331 OS: Windows XP Home & Pro. Sp3 / both compleatly updated My System	[SOLVED] need help bad i have my nephews pc to wich the hard drive had to be erased because it had to many viruses/ trojans/ worms/ spyware ect... the software was unstable and took 45 min. to load , so we used kill disk to wipe clean , installed windows then on last reboot of instalation it stated that icould not find hard drive / floppydrive / cd-rom / i am still able to enter the bios buts that it any advice would help , intel motherboard , with a intel pentium 3 / 550 MHz / 40 GB hard drive , the pc was bought at a place like Rent-A -Center, the name on the case is Proteva/ Windows 98 SE / 256 MB memory , this all i can tell you for the motherboard only says Intel

04-22-2007, 12:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: need help bad Hi, Unplug the computer and open the case. Check all cables and connections inside the case and reset BIOS. The easiest way to reset BIOS is to remove the little lithium battery for a minute and then put it back in again (the computer has to be unplugged for this to work). Nicholas

04-22-2007, 01:09 AM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: need help bad Do you "see" the drives in BIOS? Are the IDE channels set to auto?

04-22-2007, 01:18 AM	#5 (permalink)
mattlock Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 4,183 OS: XP SP2, Win 7 Beta, Win 7 RC My System	Re: need help bad Hello again Mike. Try disconnecting the cdrom and floppy drive and see if it'll recognize the hard drive. I had this happen once testing some CDrom drives to see if they were good. I connected one of them and nothing was recognized. Disconnected and booted up with no problem. Keep us posted on your progress. Matt __________________ Matt Everest-Thermal Paste Instruction-Power Supply Info-Sensorview PSU Calculator-Speedfan-Bench Test Help TSF Fight Disease. It's Free!