[Zibbiezone]

Yeah there's a "PC Source" nearby, been there once.. Guess they're my best bet. But I don't see how this happened really. It was running just fine before, I restarted it 'cause I un-installed Modio.. Then it did that configuring thing...Let it do that, and then this happened..

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A hard drive is a mechanical piece and sometimes you will get what is called the Click Of Death, slowing down, system errors, rebooting on it's own or not booting at all.
Sometimes it takes a while and other times it just dies.
I just find it strange the bios is showing no hard drive at all.

[rshaffer61]

A hard drive is a mechanical piece and sometimes you will get what is called the Click Of Death, slowing down, system errors, rebooting on it's own or not booting at all.
Sometimes it takes a while and other times it just dies.
I just find it strange the bios is showing no hard drive at all.

[Zibbiezone]

I did do a few of the things listed on this website to try and speed up my pc: http://www.delete-co...y-computer.html ... I did do something in the C: that started with petaf or something similar..

[rshaffer61]

I did do something in the C: that started with petaf or something similar..

Not sure what you are referring to here but are you saying before you did this you were able to get into windows?
Did you use a Registry Cleaner and then this all started?

[Zibbiezone]

Yes, before all this I had no problems running my laptop. And Registry Cleaner, no I don't believe I did anything with that, besides look at them. I didn't download anything either, everthing I did was on my laptop already.

It may take a minute on my iPod, but I'll see if I can find some of the things I did, okay?

[rshaffer61]

It may take a minute on my iPod, but I'll see if I can find some of the things I did, okay?

OK thanks this may help me figure out something. I will suggest you enter the BIOS again and double check and see if the hard drive is identified. Most of the time there is a area that lists all your drives.

[Zibbiezone]

Ok here's one thing I did, just the top step though: http://www.delete-co...-windows-7.html

and how do you check that? The ESC start up menu, f10: BIOS Setup?



Edit: okay, yeah this is one thing I was talking about, the prefetcher.

Edited by Zibbiezone, 16 August 2011 - 09:54 AM.

[rshaffer61]

Was it after doing this the issue started or were there other steps also?

The ESC start up menu, f10: BIOS Setup?

Yep that is it.

[Zibbiezone]

A mix of both really, I did more than just that, and then it messed up. I'm still looking through to find other things I did. I did defrag the hard drive I THIINK. I know I did something called disk clean (that's the name of the program)


And okay I'm in the BIOS, now where do I look? Also, should I load setup defaults?

[rshaffer61]

Loading defaults will not hurt anything and it can always be changed later.
Defrag or Disk Cleanup should not have done what is happening now.
Prefetch really should have no bearing on bootup since it is designed to only help in starting programs faster once you are in windows.

[Zibbiezone]

Well.. Maybe http://www.delete-co...hard-drive.html ? I don't know, all the pages on there seem the same to me..

[Zibbiezone]

I did run test (the f1 or 2 option on ESC) and they all failed. Also in the BIOS diagnostic log there's absolutely nothing on that.

[rshaffer61]

I did run test (the f1 or 2 option on ESC) and they all failed. Also in the BIOS diagnostic log there's absolutely nothing on that.

What test exactly? Did it not find any hard drive or it did and ran a diagnostics which failed?

[Zibbiezone]

A start-up test, system tune-up, hard disk and memory test, all of which failed. Did not say why.

And BIOS managment, that did nothing though, update or rollback, as it said "failed, BIOS update not found for both options

Edited by Zibbiezone, 16 August 2011 - 10:17 AM.

[rshaffer61]

We never suggest a bios update unless it will add some functionality to the system.
All test failed especially hard drive tells me a issue with the hard drive then. Does it even identify the hard drive before the test?
memory you tested and it showed good so I'm not sure why it says it failed. System tuneup most likely due to the hard drive issue.