ASUS mobo, in BIOS, no device found message, then stops

[macleod]

One of my relatives has purchased the Asus P4C800-E mobo (http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4C800-E%20Deluxe&langs=09) and is having some issues. He has yanked out his old HDD and hooked it in as the master on IDE channel 1, and on the channel 2, he has a cd burner.

When he boots the machine up, it does the intial post, then it says that BIOS no installed and No Device found. When he is forced to go to BIOSsetup, his HDD and burner are listed.

The HDD has an OS installed and worked fine on the other PC.

I have spent the last 2 hours searching on the net for bios issues, etc. but there was nothing that fixed the problem.

Was hoping that someone here might know what to do. To make matters worse, he doesnt have a floppy drive to load up BIOS. The CD that came with the mobo wont boot up.

[ViRaL1]

More than likely there's a RAID controller on the board. Disable it in the BIOS. It's the RAID BIOS that's not being installed because no drives (or at least no working / supported drives) are attached to it. This shouldn't keep you from doing anything though.

[budz]

The CD that came with the mobo wont boot up.

set the cdrom to boot first....as viral1 mentioned in the BIOS you need to disable RAID CONTROLLER....also make sure you have the IDE configuration set correctly in the BIOS.....there's a feature called ENHANCED MODE which allows you to use a SATA & PARALLEL ATA ports make sure you're using that mode if you're using WINDOWS 2000 or XP......make sure you have NO to configure S-ATA as RAID.....hope this helps you out.....

[macleod]

thanks guys. I just got my broadband yesterday and for whatever reason I could not log onto videohelp.com (found some other stuff to do though

I am supporting him over the phone and IM and we have actually went through those things. After I had him strip all the crap off the mobo so that it was just a HDD and the video card, it did 3 beeps (and then sometimes 2 beeps), which I said is Bad memory. He had the "wrong" memory in there. He is going to purchase new memory and see if that does it.

When he took one of the mem sticks out, it gave CMOS bad checksom, and then on the other it would give read/write memory error.

After I had him read off the memory, there were not listed as "acceptable" memory.

[Soopafresh]

Same thing happened to a friend with an ASUS mobo. No video, just beeping. Turns out he had some extra ECC PC-2100 and threw it in. Mobo no Likee. Problem solved with a trip to Best Buy for overpriced Kingston PC-3200.

BTW, I'm not faulting ASUS. I love their stuff.