On 08/01/13 18:22:55, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 07/01/13 17:09, Barry Samuels wrote:
The disc is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 - 1TB. I don't know what version of SATA that might be. The mainboard manual saya the SATA interface is 3 GB/s and, again, I don't know which version of SATA that might be.
The BIOS does recognise the disc.
I would have expected a core2 era mainboard to have no problem booting that disk. Given it is a used board have you tried setting the bios back to factory defaults ?
I have now received a new PSU so I could fire up the board again.
I tried setting the BIOS to defaults - no change. The BIOS was version 8 something and the latest is version 17 something so I updated the BIOS - no change.
I have now rigged the SATA drive as a USB external as both my main computer and the spare computer will both boot from USB. I have discovered that this drive won't boot on my main computer either so I swapped it over to the spare together with a USB DVD drive with Knoppix on, booted into Knoppix, and re-wrote the MBR using LILO.
That drive still won't boot so perhaps it's not the board after all. I can't help feeling that I've done/not done something embarrassingly obvious.
I have now gone into 'stumped' mode.