Booting error

[Petter Adsen]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:58:56 -0500
"C.Tresenriter" <ctres at grics.net> wrote:

> OK, not specifically an Ubuntu question but I'd hoped someone might
> have some advice.
> I've just transferred the hardware from what was a working machine
> into another case and installed 14.10 on a 160 GB sata drive.
> On rebooting the message I got was something like... system disk
> error. Insert system disk blah blah blah.
> There are two identical disks in the machine and I ran the install on
> each of them.
> Obviously the installer recognized the hard drive and I see it during
> post but the bios does not show any disk installed unless I choose the
> setup raid option, then both disks show up.
> I get the two short beeps (AMI bios) that indicates a parity circuit
> failure. I've tried three different pairs of RAM although I have not
> run memtest I did try each of the six sticks - two of them nearly new
> - one at a time in each of the three slots and got the same result.
> 
> There isn't any bios setting that allows me to specify or configure
> sata disks as opposed to IDE so I'm thinking the motherboard, an Asus
> A7V8X-X, is probably history.
> I'm wondering if there's something I may have missed that could
> rectify the issue.

This *sounds* a lot like a hardware problem, but it's hard to know for
sure without closer inspection :) I don't know if this will be helpful,
but I have a couple of suggestions. Have you tried to look for a newer
version of the BIOS on ASUS' web pages? There is a beta version from
2005/06/28 - maybe you could try that. Also, try running memtest on the
newest RAM sticks, if it fails, try another pair. If you can, try
tunning memtest on the same sticks in another machine to get an idea of
whether it is the sticks themselves or something on the motherboard.

It's odd that the disks don't show up in the BIOS settings except if
you use the RAID setting, and I wouldn't want to use that, I think.

Other than that, all I can do is to wish you the best of luck, and
express my sympathy! :)

Petter

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