ASUS A88XM-E Bios not detecting hard drive - previously working fine.

bobbyp68

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May 24, 2016
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Hi, I really need help solving a problem that has just started to occur on my system. Here are the system specs:
AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8 Ghz quad core
ASUS A88XM-E motherboard
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3-1600 memory
Seagate Barracude 1TB 3.5" HD
EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card
This build started with Windows 7 and was upgraded to 10 when microsoft offered it for free.

This setup had no previous problems with booting from the hard drive. Recently I have been getting the error of "No Boot Device Detected". I could do a couple of hard restarts and the computer would boot fine. I could shut down Windows properly and then restart and it would boot from the HD fine. Then the problem would randomly happen again.

When this problem happens and I look in BIOS, I only see the DVD drive in the boot menu.
I have tried unplugging and plugging back in the SATA cables. No luck.
Have unplugged and plugged in the power to the HD. Its fine.
I have tried plugging the SATA cable from the HD to a different SATA port on the motherboard - no joy.
I have tried unplugging the DVD drive SATA cable. When I do this the BIOS trips a message that says "The current BIOS setting do not fully suppor the boot device." Says to go to CRM parms in the boot menu. I have played with those settings. Not luck again.
Also, updated the bios and tried all of this with no success.

I read this thread from someone with a very similar issue http://
but I cannot figure out what they did to solve the problem.

I really could use some help and would appreciate any responses. If more info is needed I will do my best to provide it promptly. Thanks.
 
Solution
Go to Seagate.com and download and create a Seatools for DOS disk. Boot that on the computer and run the short tests and then the long tests on your hard drive. Any errors indicate failing drive. Copy your data off and replace the drive.
If the hard drive passes both tests then we need to look at other areas.

BadAsAl

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Go to Seagate.com and download and create a Seatools for DOS disk. Boot that on the computer and run the short tests and then the long tests on your hard drive. Any errors indicate failing drive. Copy your data off and replace the drive.
If the hard drive passes both tests then we need to look at other areas.
 
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