Thread: my pc trouble

open it up and move the jumper on the mboard to flush it then move it back.
Maybe you shouldn't.

yeah dont do that

Originally Posted by Gingermick

open it up and move the jumper on the mboard to flush it then move it back.
Maybe you shouldn't.

yeah dont do that

Thanks Mick,
for coming back with the edit, so not done.

I think you said in the other thread that you had a SATA drive? This is the most obvious candidate for that missing device driver msg you've been seeing at boot. Do you have the mobo manual so you can double-check what each of the values for the SATA setting represent? I ask because there's quite a range of settings appropriate to SATA, such as "disabled," "auto detect," "combined," "non-combined" or "enhanced" and it's not exactly obvious which your 0/1/2 represent.

At a guess I'd say 0 is disabled, so I'd try changing it to 1 then go to "Save changes and Exit," hoping that equates to Auto or Combined. If that doesn't stop the msg from appearing at boot, try changing it to 2 and save and exit. Of course, at any time you can always go back and change it back to 0. (Assuming you know the hot-key combo to get into the BIOS after a normal boot. Some systems use combos that are really esoteric. )

It might also be worth your while to go back a menu or two and check the boot device sequence. It should be in the order of "A, CD-ROM, C" or similar, but if it should by some odd quirk include ONBOARD-LAN, well... I'd change it to a sequence that doesn't include the LAN.

Skew.

B.H. excuse my French.

I'd better print that one out.

Seeing my computer is working just a nasty boot up each time thes days, the MSI dialogue appears and I have to use the TAB key and then F1, is it worth the agro?

I could leave until I reinstall windows next time again? unless the motherboard always has the fault once I've put in the patch.?

Originally Posted by jow104

I could leave until I reinstall windows next time again? unless the motherboard always has the fault once I've put in the patch.?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but...

Hmmm... you could say that the BIOS is a mini-computer in it's own right and the CMOS is it's memory, where all the settings you make in the BIOS screen are saved. It's primary function is to physically test all the hardware on the motherboard (RAM, CPU, data busses, etc.) and to start everything in the correct order so that by the end of the boot sequence it can hand a fully functional hardware set to the operating system (ie. Windows, Linux, etc.) and say "Here. I've started it up, now you can take over."

Any messages you see at boot time, error or otherwise, are all from the BIOS and Windows hasn't even started to start yet. In other words, reinstalling Windows is unlikely to make any difference whatsoever.

Mind you, provided the computer is working properly once booted and you're content to press the extra buttons to get it through the boot sequence then there 's no need to fiddle with it any further.

In the long run it'd probably be best to find someone who's comfortable in the BIOS and local to you to take a quick look at it. It should only be a matter of 5 minutes to establish one way or t'other where that error msg is coming from.


Oh... and that jumper thing that GMick mentioned? It wouldn't have done any harm, it basically just clears the data from CMOS so you'd probably be in exactly the same boat you're in now... The MSI update probably cleared the CMOS and didn't restore the settings after doing the update. Bloody sloppy coding, that!

OK Skew, we'll take a breather for a few days, and make sure everything is working.
Your explanation makes sense, if thinks go thumbs down I can always ask the wife if I can borrow her laptop and send you a buzz, in fact my telephone is on subscription and I can telephone any number anywhere and I keep accumulating credit to pass on to the next month. Sooooooooooooo!

Sincere thanks to you and others for assistance freely given.

Skew,
I have got out the motherboard manual
MSI
K9N SLI/ K9N ultra.

Also I have a driver utility disk.

Can I just stick the disk in and install the original drivers over the top or do my hands have to get dirty?
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