jimgolfgti
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Wonder if anyone can shed any light on this problem......
I have a strange error with my desktop. I booted by computer today into Win XP SP2, logged in and walked away for 30 mins or so. On returning to the computer I found that instead of being logged into Win XP as I had left it, it was waiting at the post BIOS boot screen with the message 'INSERT SYSTEM DISK' or words to that affect.
I pressed CNTL+ALT+DEL and waited for drives to be autodetected and noticed that only my PATA DVD had been found but the SATA HDD was not found. I waited for the message to re-appear about the lack of a system volume and when it did I powered off and waited 10 seconds or so before pressing the power button again.
This time the internal speaker played several beeps but not a message reported in my BIOS manual. Sort of accending notes followed by a loud buzz. The BIOS reports memory at single channel, normal, then attempts to find drives but seems to not do anything more except play the same beeps from the speaker every 10 seconds or so. On pressing Delete to enter BIOS the message changes but it never goes into the BIOS configuration.
Has anyone seen this occur before??
Need to know whether this could be software rather than a hardware problem.
SPEC:
Gigabyte 8IPE1000-G F3
512 Mb DDR RAM
160Gb Maxtor YAR51HWO
I have a strange error with my desktop. I booted by computer today into Win XP SP2, logged in and walked away for 30 mins or so. On returning to the computer I found that instead of being logged into Win XP as I had left it, it was waiting at the post BIOS boot screen with the message 'INSERT SYSTEM DISK' or words to that affect.
I pressed CNTL+ALT+DEL and waited for drives to be autodetected and noticed that only my PATA DVD had been found but the SATA HDD was not found. I waited for the message to re-appear about the lack of a system volume and when it did I powered off and waited 10 seconds or so before pressing the power button again.
This time the internal speaker played several beeps but not a message reported in my BIOS manual. Sort of accending notes followed by a loud buzz. The BIOS reports memory at single channel, normal, then attempts to find drives but seems to not do anything more except play the same beeps from the speaker every 10 seconds or so. On pressing Delete to enter BIOS the message changes but it never goes into the BIOS configuration.
Has anyone seen this occur before??
Need to know whether this could be software rather than a hardware problem.
SPEC:
Gigabyte 8IPE1000-G F3
512 Mb DDR RAM
160Gb Maxtor YAR51HWO