- Jan 22, 2015
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Any advice would be appreciated.
My computer's an Acer Veriton S670G
OS: Windows7 Prof. x64
Motherboard: Acer/Gigabyte EQ45M
Chipset: Intel Q45
CPU: Core 2 DUO E8400
GPU: ATI Radeon 5000HD series
I love my PC and it worked really well, until recently. I know it isn't very powerful, but I just use it for studying, animation and playing old games.
The other day I was looking at overclocking my CPU and read up on what I needed to do. I understood the basic method, as far as I was aware.
However, I had read on a few sites, that before doing it you should reset the BIOS to their default settings and see whether it would boot properly.
So I did and it doesn't...
Now when I boot up it now specifies that both of my hard drives are "non- RAID volume" and then follows on to a black screen stating "A disk read error occurred".
I've read up on this a lot since and have tried several different methods, including:
*Trying to reassign the boot drive to the drive I know has windows installed on it.
*Trying to change the SATA mode to both IDE and AHCI.
That's all I can recall right now, though I have tried other BIOS settings.
I'm usually pretty good with computers, as long as the problem can be handled within the OS. I have very little experience with this level of troubleshooting.
I've read a great deal of tutorials that recommend testing the drive on another PC, but I don't have a spare one unfortunately. I've also read a potential re installation of Windows can sometimes be the only option, but I don't have a hard copy as this computer was given to me.
I'm trying to remain faithful, that this problem can be resolved within the BIOS, as that's where the problem began. This computer ran without fault before I was an idiot and decided to meddle with something I didn't fully understand...
Does anybody have any ideas?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
My computer's an Acer Veriton S670G
OS: Windows7 Prof. x64
Motherboard: Acer/Gigabyte EQ45M
Chipset: Intel Q45
CPU: Core 2 DUO E8400
GPU: ATI Radeon 5000HD series
I love my PC and it worked really well, until recently. I know it isn't very powerful, but I just use it for studying, animation and playing old games.
The other day I was looking at overclocking my CPU and read up on what I needed to do. I understood the basic method, as far as I was aware.
However, I had read on a few sites, that before doing it you should reset the BIOS to their default settings and see whether it would boot properly.
So I did and it doesn't...
Now when I boot up it now specifies that both of my hard drives are "non- RAID volume" and then follows on to a black screen stating "A disk read error occurred".
I've read up on this a lot since and have tried several different methods, including:
*Trying to reassign the boot drive to the drive I know has windows installed on it.
*Trying to change the SATA mode to both IDE and AHCI.
That's all I can recall right now, though I have tried other BIOS settings.
I'm usually pretty good with computers, as long as the problem can be handled within the OS. I have very little experience with this level of troubleshooting.
I've read a great deal of tutorials that recommend testing the drive on another PC, but I don't have a spare one unfortunately. I've also read a potential re installation of Windows can sometimes be the only option, but I don't have a hard copy as this computer was given to me.
I'm trying to remain faithful, that this problem can be resolved within the BIOS, as that's where the problem began. This computer ran without fault before I was an idiot and decided to meddle with something I didn't fully understand...
Does anybody have any ideas?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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