Please help!System boots directly into the bios No SATA devices detected. =[

vibhor1884

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Oct 21, 2016
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BIOSTAR TA970XE
AMD FX-6100
Corsair Value Select 4GB 1600 MHz
Nvidia gt 610

So one day my system started slowing down and then freezing abruptly, so I took out and reseated the RAM, after turning on the system again it started emitting a continuous beeping sound.

After a couple of restarts it started booting but the screen "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press Alt+Ctr+Del to restart" started to show up

After reseating the ram in another slot the system booted to the screen where it recommends Running Startup Repair and as soon as I pressed enter there was another error screen in black with Windows boot manager on the top stating the boot manager failed to communicate with one of the devices plugged in.

After a restart I finally reached the desktop screen and it cooperated enough to let me schedule it for a chkdsk scan and it went for the scan in the next boot and got stuck in stage 4 at 53 percent for more than 20 hours, after a force shut down on the next boot the same beeping issue arose

I purchased a Corsair memory stick and installed later, the bios startup screen now appears but it directly boots into the bios and in the bios, the SATA control is enabled but none of my SATA devices are detected by my BIOS.


Please help.
 
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sounds like your hard drive has failed or failing to the point of no return ? you could try a live dvd of Linux to see how well it boots to its desktop ?
unhook your hard drive sata cable and pop in the dvd select it as first boot device and boot up on it ..

''You can download the Linux Mint operating system for free. It comes as an ISO file
which you need to burn to a blank DVD. The liveDVD is then bootable and provides a
fully-functional operating system which you can try without affecting your PC''

https://www.linuxmint.com/documentation/user-guide/Cinnamon/english_18.0.pdf

worse case is the sata controller on the board went bad , but sounds like a bad hard drive to me with what you said above ??


if you got a wd...
sounds like your hard drive has failed or failing to the point of no return ? you could try a live dvd of Linux to see how well it boots to its desktop ?
unhook your hard drive sata cable and pop in the dvd select it as first boot device and boot up on it ..

''You can download the Linux Mint operating system for free. It comes as an ISO file
which you need to burn to a blank DVD. The liveDVD is then bootable and provides a
fully-functional operating system which you can try without affecting your PC''

https://www.linuxmint.com/documentation/user-guide/Cinnamon/english_18.0.pdf

worse case is the sata controller on the board went bad , but sounds like a bad hard drive to me with what you said above ??


if you got a wd harddrive use there data lifeguard or if Seagate seatool

[example]

http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?lang=en
 
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