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Can it be that something isn't right or broken in your motherboard?

 

 

Winos


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im for certain its nothing of the sort, it just happened one day when switching out the hard drive, and when switching it before, many times before, it just....happened

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No short circuit of a chip ?

 

 


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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela


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on the motherboard? i wouldnt really know, it just does not read any HDD's plugged through the part in the bottom specified for such device. it can boot from cd and external hdd or flash drive, sometimes not, sometimes it shows the error and few times not. it seeems kinda wirey, i reset rtc battery and everything i could, 

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Do you have warranty?

 

Did you tried another hard drive? 

Did you update the bios?

 

Winos.


The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin
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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela


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the hard drive aint the prollem, im looking into buying a new mother board anyway for it, and git the upgraded one and maybe some other toys to implant into it 😄 but all seriousnes, i was going to do a bios reset and see if that will be different, i got two laptops and a printer im working on atm i got lots of headaches 😉 

 

 

 

had 3 year waranty....and a Promocode with it.....aaaaannnnnnnnnnd is Vista Buisness OEM the only ones with free downgrade to xp pro 😄

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wait, i did do that, i took out the cmos battery

 

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"Im looking into buying a new mother board anyway for it."

 

I think that is the best solution.


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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela


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