Booting up problem?

[tweedledee]

Here are a couple of photos of the screen when I boot up. I'm puzzled about the drives not being detected. things seem to work OK, should I sort this out? and how? BTW, I run XP

[Bjs]

Possibilty the battery on the motherboard wants replacing ... replace , enter bios and reset all options .
Cable's may have become inoperative ... replace .

Drive issue's with ms / cs / s settings .

Set all units to cs mode .

[tweedledee]

Thanks for your reply, but wouldn't that cause problems while the PC is running?
it's been like that for a while and it's only now that I'm thinking it may need sorting out.
I'm going to do a re-install soon and thought I'd try and fix this as well.

[Ai Haibara]

If you go into the BIOS setup, does the automatic drive detection feature see the drives?

(probably should Exit without saving changes, if you're worried about messing anything up )

[Scorpion King]

1. You have the GigaRaid controller enabled in the BIOS but you don't have any drives connected to it. The controller is enabled is why it's being run and displayed on every boot, and the drives are showing "not-detected" because you don't have any drives on the controller. Your motherboard should have 2 yellow IDE connectors on it (probably low and to the front of the board when mounted in a tower case).

To fix this simply enter the bios setup utility and 'disable' the gigaRaid controller. Save and Exit.

2. You have the SIL SATA Raid controller enabled. Same deal as the above.

If the battery is bad (like Bjs said) the BIOS will default to enable these controllers (I think).

I doubt any hard will come by leaving them enabled but they do use resources and XP will load yet another driver on every boot. Or should I say 2 extra drivers. lol

Good luck.

[tweedledee]

Thanks, I have just gone into the BIOS and disabled the RAID and it has solved that problem. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it hasn't created others. Thanks again.

[Scorpion King]

Well, the only problem it may cause is "if your running Raid". Meaning, "you're not now"

Good luck.

[TBoneit]

As Scorpion King said, you can disable them since they are not detecting any drives. What you were seeing isn't a problem as such, more of an information screen.

Obviously your motherboard can support more drives than you have hooked up and what you were seeing is the built-in extra controller that uses its own bios to set up drives instead of the Motherboard Bios. It is actually quite common on many of the motherboards excluding really cheap ones these days. The only harm is it will slow down the boot slightly while it looks for drives. I have something similar on my Motherboards. Difference is I use the extra drive slots for more drives. My Asus even detects drives hooked up externally via USB ports.