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Asrock z97 extreme4

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July 5, 2014 10:24:31 AM

.Hello I have the motherboard listed in subject. It worked when I first hooked it up and then the next morning it didn't. It gave me an A2 error (IDE detect) it recognizes the hdd and its free space but will not boot from it. It just displays the asrock page and restarts.

Steps I have tried:
Reset CMOS
Different sata cords.
Different sata ports.
Changed BIOS storage settings.

Nothing worked.

It would also be food to note that the ODD works and boots but the hdd won't boot. And it isn't the hard drive it does work and is not corrupted

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a b V Motherboard
July 5, 2014 10:48:18 AM

Look to updating your BIOS. I've also seen in the past that any front USB peripherals like card readers may affect it. If you unplug those from the board, you may find it boots. Update the BIOS, though.
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a b V Motherboard
July 5, 2014 11:04:06 AM

Reset the boot priority and remove any external memory or card.
Also try removing your GPU and then try Booting up.
Try removing the battery for a while! Sometimes it helps!
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Did you installed a new hardware or software recently?
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July 6, 2014 11:18:28 AM

Updating BIOS didn't work. No dGPU only iGPU. Removed battery overnight still didn't work.
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a b V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 11:27:52 AM

when you fooled with the bios be sure the hard drive is back where you had it when you installed windows --- ahci - ide- if you had it set to ahci and it defaulted back to ide it will not boot..
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July 6, 2014 11:45:13 AM

Its not a new hdd its from my old system. But when I first hooked up this motherboard it worked on uefi defaults. So it works on ahci. But I have tried on both settings and it doesn't work.
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a b V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 12:03:57 PM

so its a old drive with a fresh install of windows or just you moved the drive over and still using the windows that was already installed on it from the old computer ?
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July 6, 2014 12:11:07 PM

I just moved the drive over. It worked then stopped when I restarted. I will try it when I get home
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a b V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 12:29:10 PM

did not mean to say this is the issue but once windows is tied to a computer most times you have to reinstall it on the new computer and call Microsoft to reactivated it ... but I never had it work to start with as you said, it just loads to the windows screen and loops never going to desk top... and oem windows is one time use and cant be transferred .... but I see and hear folks here at toms saying that it can and so on but I never could only with retail and I still had to do a fresh install on it . the license for 8 is worded different then the older windows so I cant be much help on that part it now may let you[???] but as with my oem copies of xp vista and 7 if I try to reuse it on a new computer as soon as it hits Microsoft they flag it as invalid and has already been activated and now not genuine.. I also tried to reuse harddrives and in the end just wished I got a new drive and a fresh copy of windows and just used the old drive as storage[opinion] though this may still not be your issue but I thought I 'd put it out there ...
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July 6, 2014 12:38:40 PM

It might be the problem. Cuz I can boot from CD drive. So it cant be a mobo problem. And win disk check says the hdd is not corrupt. So I will install win 7 when I get home and try it out
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a b V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 12:49:52 PM

booting from the cd is a nonissue .... but booting windows on a harddrive that's been tied to a computer that's not the computer its on now is a issue. see when windows try's to load it runs a check and sees that this is not the computer it started with and goes into a boot loop cause things anit adding up in it and it just fails to load
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July 7, 2014 10:00:20 AM

You are the man junkeymonkey. Thats all it was. Just needed a fresh install of windows to work. It has worked without for me before but that was from AMD to AMD. Im guessing the problem was that because I went from AMD to Intel there must have been a driver confliction or something.
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a b V Motherboard
July 7, 2014 10:21:28 AM

glad it worked out for you good luck
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