Systemlord Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Hi everyone, I finished building my brother's new computer a few days ago and everytime after the POST when it shows the LifeStyle P5Q symbol it says, " initializing....", then "no hard drive is detected", then boots to Windows desktop. My boot priority shows HDD #1, DVD-R #2, I don't want to update the BIOS unless I have to! My brother will not except this on a computer he spent over 1000.00 dollars on, I have to remove/fix this error from happenning. I would be grateful for any help, thank you! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepel Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 I'm quite a noob since I've only built one system. But maybe try reconnecting the HDD. Or see if by connecting it to another sata port it will be recognized. More professional advice will probably follow, but this is my share. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperk1 Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 I think its showing no hard drive detected on the secondary SATA controller(i.e the non intel ICH10R) I have a P5Q premium and it gives me the same message from the marvell adaptor because there really is nothing connected to it. If it boots to windows then its clearly seeing some hard drives Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTA Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 i have that problem before... make sure you dont disable feature in BIOS (click restore default setting in exit menu)... or time to update your BIOS ( you will find the version very old)... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Systemlord Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 I think its showing no hard drive detected on the secondary SATA controller(i.e the non intel ICH10R) I have a P5Q premium and it gives me the same message from the marvell adaptor because there really is nothing connected to it. If it boots to windows then its clearly seeing some hard drives How do I know which controller its pluged into? So just plug it into the Intel sata controller? lepel, good idea. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fight Game Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 It may simply be an option in the bios to search for drives, or "Auto". Try manually changing any "Auto" setting for the hdd ports to "None", where none exsist. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Systemlord Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 It may simply be an option in the bios to search for drives, or "Auto". Try manually changing any "Auto" setting for the hdd ports to "None", where none exsist. On my old Asus P5B Deluxe it stated which were Jmicron and which weren't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTA Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 well if my suggestion (except update bios) is not working then it might be your hdd problem... try it on different computer... you still need to tell us what kind of hdd is... like model... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Systemlord Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 well if my suggestion (except update bios) is not working then it might be your hdd problem... try it on different computer... you still need to tell us what kind of hdd is... like model... Its a WD 320GB Carviar SE16 Blue WD3200KSRTL. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkrow21 Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 I have an ASUS P5Q Pro and it does the same thing. I wouldn't call it a problem as it flashes for maybe half a second before continuing with startup. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
malmsteenisgod Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 That happens to me on my DX38BT and Seagate 7200.11. I posted about it a while back but never found a solution. I've tried different SATA ports, poked around in the BIOS, and updated my BIOS once or twice and still won't go away. But, it boots so I don't really care. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuantumX Posted December 13, 2008 Posted December 13, 2008 I had difficulty to boot. I disabled the DriveXpert features, and disabled the floppy drive. Hope this helps Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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