Computer woe

jmc41 · 04-05-2010, 18:40

Hoping for some suggestions as computer seems busted. Spent a large chunk of timr attemping to install Win7 on raid1 using legacy nforce 4 sata drivers as it doesn't appear to support natively. Eventually after many problems with it not finding the drives, or crashing half way through install, or losing boot ability after the 2nd reformat I gave up and again disabled Raid and installed it to one disk to use windows mirroring until I can be bothered to try yet again.

Anyways, windows decided to download a whole load of stuff this AM and then install it all on shutdown, by the time this was done I was running late so booted up to setup the mirror as it'll take all day but on boot up it failed to configure the setup and reverted. Couldn't find the dynamic disk mirroring stuff so turned it off - except the only option was to install all the updates yet again. Couldn't wait and hate leaving it doing something like that so powered off figuring worst case I'd get a borked install and have to go againan given it's failed to setup updates hours after a fresh install not such a bad plan.

Anyways, computer now won't boot, I can't do anythinhg. I get the first screen detecting drives (dvd and two sata ones) but it never progresses so I can't even floppy or CD boot. Hitting del for nios and esc to the boot menu does nothing. Only ctrl-alt-del works. Hard power off is instant too no 5 second hold down required.
No beeps either so not a clue what's up :-(

Anyone? Help!

04-05-2010, 18:40	#1
jmc41 Absinthe Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,070	Computer woe Hoping for some suggestions as computer seems busted. Spent a large chunk of timr attemping to install Win7 on raid1 using legacy nforce 4 sata drivers as it doesn't appear to support natively. Eventually after many problems with it not finding the drives, or crashing half way through install, or losing boot ability after the 2nd reformat I gave up and again disabled Raid and installed it to one disk to use windows mirroring until I can be bothered to try yet again. Anyways, windows decided to download a whole load of stuff this AM and then install it all on shutdown, by the time this was done I was running late so booted up to setup the mirror as it'll take all day but on boot up it failed to configure the setup and reverted. Couldn't find the dynamic disk mirroring stuff so turned it off - except the only option was to install all the updates yet again. Couldn't wait and hate leaving it doing something like that so powered off figuring worst case I'd get a borked install and have to go againan given it's failed to setup updates hours after a fresh install not such a bad plan. Anyways, computer now won't boot, I can't do anythinhg. I get the first screen detecting drives (dvd and two sata ones) but it never progresses so I can't even floppy or CD boot. Hitting del for nios and esc to the boot menu does nothing. Only ctrl-alt-del works. Hard power off is instant too no 5 second hold down required. No beeps either so not a clue what's up :-( Anyone? Help!