Look, I did separate them. I know what I'm doing here. It isn't like this is my first time messing with hardware; every single time I’ve done this in the past, everything worked perfectly fine. But now, suddenly... :O I mean, how was I supposed to realize there was no signal hitting the monitor because I hadn't plugged into the VGA port? And just to be clear, all the pins on the cable are totally fine—I checked. When I hook it up to my laptop, the picture shows up just fine.
You don't need an extra power cable for the card since there aren't even any 8-pin connectors on it. It's just a GTX 1050, which I guess is such a low-power component anyway.
It hasn't been installed since I swapped things out recently, but honestly, I don't see how that even touches my issue. If you think it matters, maybe explain why
Hey there. So, I’m running a P5KPL-AM motherboard, and honestly, everything was working just fine until about two days ago. I decided to go in and give the whole rig a deep clean—took everything apart, dusted it all off, put it all back together... you know how it goes. Everything seems to be functioning properly on paper, but now when I hook up the monitor, I’m getting absolutely nothing. It’s like the graphics card just gave up the ghost or something, though I really don't think it actually died. Any ideas? Please, I could use some help here.
The motherboard has two IDE slots, so I went ahead and hooked up one hard drive to one ribbon cable and the DVD drive to the other. Everything seemed fine at first—IDE was behaving normally during the initial stages. But here’s where it gets annoying: once I get to the part where I have to hit Enter to kick off the Windows installation, I press the key and then suddenly I'm getting this error message about memory issues.
So, I managed to sort out my DVD issue, but there’s this weird thing happening right at the start. As soon as I boot everything up, it shows it's loading the DVD and the hard drive, but then it just kicks me out. It gives me some error about disconnecting a device because maybe the memory on the tape drive is full or something. I guess it's just being finicky.
So, here’s the deal. My motherboard has two SATA ports, so I decided to daisy-chain things a bit—hooked up two cables to one hard drive and then used the other for a new DVD drive. I just popped in the disc, and everything seemed fine until that part where you have to hit Enter to kick off the installation. I press the button, and immediately it hits me with that error: "An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system."
So, I tried doing it exactly the way you guys suggested, but I kept getting that same error message telling me to insert boot media. I ended up plugging the DVD drive into an extension cable because I was missing a pin, and then it just sat there saying "searching for boot" or something along those lines. The drive started making this really loud, aggressive whirring noise, and then—out of nowhere—it just completely cut out. And then, of course, it goes right back to that same prompt asking me to insert boot media again.
And another thing... when I'm hooking up a DVD drive and a hard drive to a single ribbon cable, is it actually possible to have them both sitting on one line? And about those ports on the cable—some of them are missing a pin or two while others look complete—which specific one should I be plugging both the DVD and the HDD into?
Man, I caught that video you posted. I actually tried doing the same thing myself, but that PC in the clip? It’s a total relic. We're talking a Pentium 4, 2.66GHz, maybe 512 MB of RAM... stuff like that. Honestly, I think the BIOS on that machine is even older than the one shown in the video itself.
I did exactly what you suggested, but now I'm stuck. How do I actually get back to the factory defaults? I need to reset everything to the master BIOS settings, but I'm working with an older version here.
Hey man, you kind of gave me the gist of all that earlier, but what exactly do you mean by a motherboard battery? I mean, I know my way around a PC well enough to get the idea, but maybe you could walk me through it just a bit more clearly
So, here’s the deal. My DVD drive and HDD are on the same ribbon cable. The hard drive itself seems fine, but I can't get anything to boot from it. I sent over a screenshot of the error message I'm getting. The DVD drive works just fine when I try to read discs. I recently tried installing macOS on this new PC because my old one finally kicked the bucket and I've been stuck using a single DVD drive to get things moving.
So, here’s the deal. My hard drive shows up in the BIOS, but I’m getting a bit confused about the DVD drive. It used to always show the specific name of the drive, but now it just says "CD" or something similar. I have no clue why that changed. Anyway, I’ll try to explain what's happening. Since I’m working with an older machine, my hard drive doesn't use a SATA connection; it uses that old-school wide ribbon cable. I think that might be part of the issue. That cable has multiple connectors, so every time I switch which one I'm using, the system detects something different, but it only ever recognizes those two specific things. Here is what I'm seeing: 1. Boot failure reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device press any key when ready That’s the first error. Then there's this second one: 2. An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system.