Boot failure, No array defined no drive attached. Oh boy!

machine · 01-17-2005, 06:07 PM

Hey guess i didnt scare u away with the title, heh. Well i came home to my computer on and running. I went to play a video game of mine and it came up as missing the exe. No problem i thought, ill just re boot the computer and see if that'll fix it. Well then my second problem arrived. I couldnt close xp, xp professional just for the info, tried the normal way, task manager, cntl alt delete. NO luck. So then i hit the reset button, alright it still works im on my way. On my way to a complete crash im soon to find out. Well after hittin the button a black screen appears, yea something is working finally. So i think, a blue screen appears saying something like windows wasnt booted or shut down yada yada yada. It told me it was goin to do 1 of 3 scans, no prob i thought. Well the 1 of 3 scan went fast and well. 2 of 3 scan started, got to 70% and things turned bad, real bad i think. Got like 6-7 lines saying that its deleting different files. At this point im guessing i just caught a nasty virus. Well after a few choice words i rebooted the computer again and now im getting the errors i mentioned in my subject. Comes up first as either no array, or no drive attached to fast track controller. Then it gives me a nice boot failure. Ive started reading, but wanted to post this as well in hopes of some help. Thanks for any help!

Oh just got the message that the bios is missing, thats a bad thing im guessing..

computer specs: Amd ath. 2.2+, 1 gig ram, 120 gig hd, gforce4 5600, msi kt4 ultra motherboard.

machine · 01-17-2005, 08:34 PM

update i read to check the connections and sure enough i had a red cable runnin from the hd to the md that looked loose. plugged it in and the only error i get now is the "boot failure" message. Ive tried placing the cd from msi into the cd rom but it says the files arnt found. Thanks for any help.

01-17-2005, 06:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
machine Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2 OS: XP Pro	Boot failure, No array defined no drive attached. Oh boy! Hey guess i didnt scare u away with the title, heh. Well i came home to my computer on and running. I went to play a video game of mine and it came up as missing the exe. No problem i thought, ill just re boot the computer and see if that'll fix it. Well then my second problem arrived. I couldnt close xp, xp professional just for the info, tried the normal way, task manager, cntl alt delete. NO luck. So then i hit the reset button, alright it still works im on my way. On my way to a complete crash im soon to find out. Well after hittin the button a black screen appears, yea something is working finally. So i think, a blue screen appears saying something like windows wasnt booted or shut down yada yada yada. It told me it was goin to do 1 of 3 scans, no prob i thought. Well the 1 of 3 scan went fast and well. 2 of 3 scan started, got to 70% and things turned bad, real bad i think. Got like 6-7 lines saying that its deleting different files. At this point im guessing i just caught a nasty virus. Well after a few choice words i rebooted the computer again and now im getting the errors i mentioned in my subject. Comes up first as either no array, or no drive attached to fast track controller. Then it gives me a nice boot failure. Ive started reading, but wanted to post this as well in hopes of some help. Thanks for any help! Oh just got the message that the bios is missing, thats a bad thing im guessing.. computer specs: Amd ath. 2.2+, 1 gig ram, 120 gig hd, gforce4 5600, msi kt4 ultra motherboard. Last edited by machine; 01-17-2005 at 06:20 PM.

01-17-2005, 08:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
machine Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2 OS: XP Pro	update i read to check the connections and sure enough i had a red cable runnin from the hd to the md that looked loose. plugged it in and the only error i get now is the "boot failure" message. Ive tried placing the cd from msi into the cd rom but it says the files arnt found. Thanks for any help.