Removed IDE drives and adjusted setup, but wont boot!

[Tarka Dal]

Removed IDE drives and adjusted setup, but wont boot!
What to do next?

 

[Jonathan_King]

No problem, just run Startup Repair. You may need to run it up to 3 times, but it usually only takes one.

 

[Tarka Dal]

Excellent suggestion!

Excellent suggestion here it comes But,
I can't even get to first screen so as to boot.
The blue light comes on fixed. and then nothing.

 

[Jonathan_King]

In that case, go into the BIOS and change your CD drive to be the first in the boot cycle.

 

[Tarka Dal]

I can't get to Bios screen...

 

[Jonathan_King]

Tell me more about what you did. What were the IDE drives doing? What was on them, what did you replace them with, etc.

 

[Tarka Dal]

Removed IDE drives

I decide to remove the IDE drives on comp as they were constantly having issues with 7. So I took out the IDE drives and the IDE cable and set BIOS to no IDE drives. Now it wont boot. Have tried taking the battery out and nothing works...

 

[Saltgrass]

I have one computer that will not even allow me into the setup menu if a drive has a formatting problem. You might try removing the drive and just see if you can boot to the DVD, or get into the Bios Setup.

I can put the bad drive in another one of my computers and fix it there, but I suppose it is a quirk of my older motherboard.

 

[Tarka Dal]

I hate to say this but,

How can I remove the drive, when I have removed the drives...:huh:

 

[theog]

I decide to remove the IDE drives on comp as they were constantly having issues with 7. So I took out the IDE drives and the IDE cable and set BIOS to no IDE drives. Now it wont boot. Have tried taking the battery out and nothing works...

Check your BIOS settings.

The HD with Win 7 install on,make first HD to boot.


Check your mobo,

SATA1=disk0=Win 7 HD.

 

[Tarka Dal]

I can't get into BIOS!

 

[gregrocker]

Look for key given on first bootup screen to enter BIOS.

 

[Tarka Dal]

Hi Greg
Can't get into 1st screen. Blue light comes on a soon as I switch it on and that's it.

 

[theog]

Hi Greg
Can't get into 1st screen. Blue light comes on a soon as I switch it on and that's it.

Reseat your video card.

 

[Tarka Dal]

Hi Greg
Can't get into 1st screen. Blue light comes on a soon as I switch it on and that's it.

Reseat your video card.

Nope that didn't work BUT, The computer seems to reboot the drives on a repeat process...

 

[theog]

Hi Greg
Can't get into 1st screen. Blue light comes on a soon as I switch it on and that's it.

Reseat your video card.

Nope that didn't work BUT, The computer seems to reboot the drives on a repeat process...

Try reseating all hardware.

 

[Tarka Dal]

Done that!

 

[Tarka Dal]

I have stripped and put the computer back together and still no difference


Is there anyone else with a possible solution.

 

[theog]

Have check all the voltages on the PSU.

 

[Tarka Dal]

To be honest I haven't got a clue how to check all the voltages.
Is everyone understanding me or am I just being misunderstood. All I have done is taken away the Removable Hard drives (IDE diskettes) and and removed the IDE cable since then the computer wont boot up. I can here the Sata Drive (Diskette) check itself then the blue light comes on then nothing. It doesn't boot startup screen...