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Anonymous   10-04-2009 at 02:47:02 AM

I recently built a PC for a family member. I installed Vista 32 bit and everything went fine. I had no trouble installing and booting up. I restarted the machine several times with no trouble at all. However, when it reached her, 750 miles away, she is indicating upon start-up, it keeps reading " select a first boot device." It is very hard to tell over the phone what is going on and why it did not just boot from the hard disk. I have walked her through the bios and I can make no sense of anything. Can anyone help?

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Bronze Motherboards badge o1die   10-04-2009 at 05:54:20 PM
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Could be a loose sata cable at the hardrive or motherboard. The old style connectors came loose easily.

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Silver Motherboards badge mongox   10-04-2009 at 07:49:29 PM
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Kevin, the BIOS and POST should show the hard drive listed, if it's not there, then likely one of the internal cables did come loose.

Make sure she didn't plug in a USB device like a RAM drive or ext hard drive. If so, it may have set itself as boot. Disconnect any such things to test.

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Anonymous   10-04-2009 at 08:35:26 PM
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Thank you both. The more I think about I'm not sure if that hard drive is being detected?

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Anonymous   10-04-2009 at 09:51:14 PM
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Problem Solved: Loose SATA wire. It's up and running.

Thank you folks!

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Silver Motherboards badge mongox   10-05-2009 at 12:12:23 AM
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Great to hear! Ah, I hate building computers for family and friends - the guilt factor, even when they are very nice, is terrible when things aren't working!

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Anonymous   10-05-2009 at 02:37:00 AM
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mongox wrote :

Great to hear! Ah, I hate building computers for family and friends - the guilt factor, even when they are very nice, is terrible when things aren't working!




Oh yeah; you're on the money. You certainly don't want problems.

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