setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer

[Alexander]

Hi,

I had just received a used computer as a gift from a friend of a friend. It is a Lian Li computer with an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Duel Core Processor. The Hard Drive is a SATA drive 2060-51537-003 REV A and I believe it was installed recently.

I began to update windows and when I verified it it politely made me aware that the version was pirated so it haulted any further updates and gave me a permanent happy window on my desktop. Under the pressure of being a criminal I bought the Windows XP software to reinstall however over night the computer crashed somehow. Perhaps from downloading some files from piratebay and it activated a virus.

I am finding the same problem as several on many forums but have not been able to find a solution based off of my systems BIOS version. If I do nothing but load up the computer and let it run it goes to the windows xp startup then restarts and stays in a loop. When I put in my windows xp cd it tells me "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer". And when I hit F8 right before the Windows it gives me the "a problem has been detected.... STOP: 0x0000007b"

A solution that seemed to work for others was "
Select Drives:
Make sure your Diskette Drive (3.5 floppy) is set properly (Usually set to Internal)
Make sure that "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON"

Go to "SATA Operation":

Your system proabaly came set to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI" - THIS SETTING CAUSES YOUR SYSTEM TO GO INTO AN IDE LOOP AND DOESN'T ALLOW IT TO FIND YOUR FACTORY INSTALLED SATA DRIVE.

CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION"" But this configuration is for a DELL and I can't seem to find similar settings in my BIOS v02.54 (C) 1985-2003, American Megatrends. And I'd like to install new drivers with F6 when I begin the Windows process but I don't know where to find the proper driver for my systems Hard Drive to burn an image to a disk and re-install that way.

Any help would be fantastic.

Thanks and I hope I gave enough detailed info on top of my attempted story based analysis. Let me know if there is more information needed to help with this problem.

Cheers,

Alex

You could go into bios and "load fail safe defaults"
This usually resets the bios with out any raid settings.
If that doesn't work, I would wipe the drive with a cd/floppy that has
fdisk on it because there is too much crap on the drive.
Open the computer and find out what motherboard and video card(if
separate card) is installed so you can get the proper drivers before
installing xp.
I have never had to install drivers with f6, except for raid on any
computers I have built. XP / sp2 supports sata drives natively.
>
>Hi,
>
>I had just received a used computer as a gift from a friend of a
>friend. It is a Lian Li computer with an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Duel Core
>Processor. The Hard Drive is a SATA drive 2060-51537-003 REV A and I
>believe it was installed recently.
>
>I began to update windows and when I verified it it politely made me
>aware that the version was pirated so it haulted any further updates and
>gave me a permanent happy window on my desktop. Under the pressure of
>being a criminal I bought the Windows XP software to reinstall however
>over night the computer crashed somehow. Perhaps from downloading some
>files from piratebay and it activated a virus.
>
>I am finding the same problem as several on many forums but have not
>been able to find a solution based off of my systems BIOS version. If I
>do nothing but load up the computer and let it run it goes to the
>windows xp startup then restarts and stays in a loop. When I put in my
>windows xp cd it tells me "setup did not find any hard disk drives
>installed in your computer". And when I hit F8 right before the Windows
>it gives me the "a problem has been detected.... STOP: 0x0000007b"
>
>A solution that seemed to work for others was "
>Select Drives:
>Make sure your Diskette Drive (3.5 floppy) is set properly (Usually set
>to Internal)
>Make sure that "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON"
>
>Go to "SATA Operation":
>
>Your system proabaly came set to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI" - THIS
>SETTING CAUSES YOUR SYSTEM TO GO INTO AN IDE LOOP AND DOESN'T ALLOW IT
>TO FIND YOUR FACTORY INSTALLED SATA DRIVE.
>
>CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION"" But this
>configuration is for a DELL and I can't seem to find similar settings in
>my BIOS v02.54 (C) 1985-2003, American Megatrends. And I'd like to
>install new drivers with F6 when I begin the Windows process but I don't
>know where to find the proper driver for my systems Hard Drive to burn
>an image to a disk and re-install that way.
>
>Any help would be fantastic.
>
>Thanks and I hope I gave enough detailed info on top of my attempted
>story based analysis. Let me know if there is more information needed to
>help with this problem.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alex


KenW

Remember, YOU voted for the jerks in Congress

Set the BIOS to boot first from the CD drive. If there's no CD in the
drive, it won't try to boot from it and will go to the next device in
the list in the BIOS.

Toss your SP disk in the drive and boot from it. When you see the
"Press Any key to boot from CD, press any key.
First thing, Delete and recreate the partitions. Absolutely nothing
can/will live through that and the drive will be pristine. Now go ahead
with the install and follow the directions.

Stay away from pirateware.

Hope the hardware's not borked; you never know.

HTH,

Twayne




Alexander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had just received a used computer as a gift from a friend of a
> friend. It is a Lian Li computer with an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Duel Core
> Processor. The Hard Drive is a SATA drive 2060-51537-003 REV A and I
> believe it was installed recently.
>
> I began to update windows and when I verified it it politely made me
> aware that the version was pirated so it haulted any further updates
> and gave me a permanent happy window on my desktop. Under the
> pressure of being a criminal I bought the Windows XP software to
> reinstall however over night the computer crashed somehow. Perhaps
> from downloading some files from piratebay and it activated a virus.
>
> I am finding the same problem as several on many forums but have not
> been able to find a solution based off of my systems BIOS version. If
> I do nothing but load up the computer and let it run it goes to the
> windows xp startup then restarts and stays in a loop. When I put in
> my windows xp cd it tells me "setup did not find any hard disk drives
> installed in your computer". And when I hit F8 right before the
> Windows it gives me the "a problem has been detected.... STOP:
> 0x0000007b"
>
> A solution that seemed to work for others was "
> Select Drives:
> Make sure your Diskette Drive (3.5 floppy) is set properly (Usually
> set to Internal)
> Make sure that "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON"
>
> Go to "SATA Operation":
>
> Your system proabaly came set to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI" - THIS
> SETTING CAUSES YOUR SYSTEM TO GO INTO AN IDE LOOP AND DOESN'T ALLOW IT
> TO FIND YOUR FACTORY INSTALLED SATA DRIVE.
>
> CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION"" But this
> configuration is for a DELL and I can't seem to find similar settings
> in my BIOS v02.54 (C) 1985-2003, American Megatrends. And I'd like to
> install new drivers with F6 when I begin the Windows process but I
> don't know where to find the proper driver for my systems Hard Drive
> to burn an image to a disk and re-install that way.
>
> Any help would be fantastic.
>
> Thanks and I hope I gave enough detailed info on top of my attempted
> story based analysis. Let me know if there is more information needed
> to help with this problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex

First, RAID needs 2 SATA hds,both need to be identical with RAID 1 & RAID 0
Once done,or if 2 are installed,set BIOS for RAID (advanced chipset),set
RAID or "other add-in device" as 2nd boot drive,cdrom with xp as 1st,for
installation..Once you exit BIOS,create a RAID set,this opens auto,once thru,
boot to xp cd,press F6,install drivers from floppy.Get floppy drivers from
hardware
mfg web site (intel or AMD,etc),locate drivers from the RAID controller the
MB
has (intel ICH 5 or 6 or 7,8,9,or 10),once drivers are set,install
xp,delete partitions,
create one,let xp format & install auto.

"Alexander" wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I had just received a used computer as a gift from a friend of a
> friend. It is a Lian Li computer with an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Duel Core
> Processor. The Hard Drive is a SATA drive 2060-51537-003 REV A and I
> believe it was installed recently.
>
> I began to update windows and when I verified it it politely made me
> aware that the version was pirated so it haulted any further updates and
> gave me a permanent happy window on my desktop. Under the pressure of
> being a criminal I bought the Windows XP software to reinstall however
> over night the computer crashed somehow. Perhaps from downloading some
> files from piratebay and it activated a virus.
>
> I am finding the same problem as several on many forums but have not
> been able to find a solution based off of my systems BIOS version. If I
> do nothing but load up the computer and let it run it goes to the
> windows xp startup then restarts and stays in a loop. When I put in my
> windows xp cd it tells me "setup did not find any hard disk drives
> installed in your computer". And when I hit F8 right before the Windows
> it gives me the "a problem has been detected.... STOP: 0x0000007b"
>
> A solution that seemed to work for others was "
> Select Drives:
> Make sure your Diskette Drive (3.5 floppy) is set properly (Usually set
> to Internal)
> Make sure that "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON"
>
> Go to "SATA Operation":
>
> Your system proabaly came set to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI" - THIS
> SETTING CAUSES YOUR SYSTEM TO GO INTO AN IDE LOOP AND DOESN'T ALLOW IT
> TO FIND YOUR FACTORY INSTALLED SATA DRIVE.
>
> CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION"" But this
> configuration is for a DELL and I can't seem to find similar settings in
> my BIOS v02.54 (C) 1985-2003, American Megatrends. And I'd like to
> install new drivers with F6 when I begin the Windows process but I don't
> know where to find the proper driver for my systems Hard Drive to burn
> an image to a disk and re-install that way.
>
> Any help would be fantastic.
>
> Thanks and I hope I gave enough detailed info on top of my attempted
> story based analysis. Let me know if there is more information needed to
> help with this problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>
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