Drakaus
2011-05-07 18:49:13 UTC
I build this PC new about a month ago. Everything worked wonderfully for about a month. One day, out of the blue, my PC decided to reboot itself and now I am struggling with the following issues.
• If I let the boot process attempt to boot into windows normally, it results in a “detect drives done, no any drives found” error followed by a black screen with an unresponsive flashing cursor.
• Bios is stuck at some kind of raid configuration screen and can’t move beyond this bios screen (it is completely stuck)
Things I have tried to do to fix this issue:
• I have removed the bios battery from the mother board and put it back in about 30 seconds later in an attempt to reset bios.
• I have booted into windows safe mode in hopes of rolling back windows to a functioning state. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get a mouse or key board to work at all in safe mode. (I thought this was very strange.)
I have scoured the internet in hopes of an answer or even a clue as to what is wrong with my PC. This investigation makes me think it has something to do with my drives being in IDE mode in bios. I would change IDE to something else but bios is stuck in the strange raid configuration screen. I have extremely valuable information on my hard drives and would really rather not reformat unless all hope is lost. Thank you so much for your time. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. I have pictures if you’re willing to provide an email address or text number I can send them to.
PC SPECS
• Case: Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
• CPU: Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core
• GPU: (SLI) EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 (x2)
• Mobo: MSI Big Bang-XPower LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
• Sound: Quantum Wave Audio Processing, THX TruStudio PRO, EAX ADVANCED HD (Sound-Card comes with Mobo)
• Memory: CORSAIR XMS3 12GB (3 x 4GB) DDR3 2000MHz
• Storage: Crucial RealSSD 128GB 6GB/s (Thank you for pointing this out Paythin)/ Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s (x2)
• PSU: CORSAIR Professional Series AX1200 1200W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
• Display:Samsung 40" LCD 1080x1920 DC 10000:1 (but who cares about dynamic contrast right?)/ Samsung 23" LCD 1080x1920 DC 70000:1 (2nd monitor for web browsing whilst gaming)
• Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Digital Speaker System
• Keyboard: Logitech G110 Black USB Wired LED Backlighting Gaming Keyboard
• Mouse: RAZER Naga Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Mouse