setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in my computer

[IPsuite]

Hi IPsuite. You mentioned your drive was SATA and that it was detected in the bios. It may just be a driver problem upon installing windows. If you can also tell us what operating system you were installing and your motherboard's model, that would help. Windows XP SP2 can't sometimes detect SATA hard drives due to a lack of storage drivers for some of the newer motherboards. Which is why that error "Setup cannot find any hard disks installed" shows up just after you are about to enter setup. You might want to try using a windows XP installer with SP3. Or you can tinker your bios and find that setting which allows your SATA to run in compatibility or IDE mode. Change it from Enhanced to either Compatibility or IDE mode. Save the settings and try installing again. Hope this helps.

nakaremember ko na ako ni g update ako XP SP2 to SP3. then mao to ako ta e reformat using my XP SP2 CD. ECS 865G-M8 FSB800 brand sa mobo..recently d naman gud ma detect sa bios ang HD unya naka IDE mode man ang SATA ani bro..

[ghunrem]

HDD not detected by PC's bios... not a good sign. Something's definitely wrong with your drive.

At least with current market prices for HDDs, you'll be getting one with a larger capacity. Best of luck to you.

[mariodiaz143]

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[IPsuite]

i closed this thread mga bro, thanks sa mga nag reply...anyway nagpalit nalang ko bag o na HD and it is working now ug nagamit na nako sa cafe...

thanks all

[muchacha00]

heat sink ra ana brod..... try daw sa bios setup unya sa cpu temp... kong mosaka bah og maayo.. 40% normal man.. kong moabot na nako og 60% up.. kana abnormal nana..