NO OS Detected

eastonl33t · 11-16-2006

hey guys, i have an ibm desktop, and i just replaced the harddrive inside because it was failing. So i bought a new 80gb eide WD and installed it, installed windows on it, and everything seemed fine. but sometimes when i start it up, it goes threw the boot order (floppy, cdrom, hdd, etc) and when it gets to the hdd part, it says "No Operating System Found. press F1 for repeat boot process". i just checked the bios and everything seems fine, the bios found the cdrom, hdd, everything. i am about to try a chkdsk and see if anything helps. and one more question, it takes about a minute to load from the bios screen. when i turn my pc on, it shows the IBM bios screen, and it stays there for about 30 seconds and the busy light its blinking like crazy but i cant hear the hdd? please help!

Wolfeymole · 11-16-2006

Originally Posted by eastonl33t

hey guys, i have an ibm desktop, and i just replaced the harddrive inside because it was failing. So i bought a new 80gb eide WD and installed it, installed windows on it, and everything seemed fine. but sometimes when i start it up, it goes threw the boot order (floppy, cdrom, hdd, etc) and when it gets to the hdd part, it says "No Operating System Found. press F1 for repeat boot process". i just checked the bios and everything seems fine, the bios found the cdrom, hdd, everything. i am about to try a chkdsk and see if anything helps. and one more question, it takes about a minute to load from the bios screen. when i turn my pc on, it shows the IBM bios screen, and it stays there for about 30 seconds and the busy light its blinking like crazy but i cant hear the hdd? please help!

Hi Eastern

Welcome to PCHF

Go back into the BIOS and change the boot order to;
1st HDD
2nd CDROM
3rd FDD
4th (If Applicable) LAN

Also make sure the FAST GATE A20 option is enabled

eastonl33t · 11-16-2006

I changed the boot order to HDD, cdrom, and network. i dont think i have FDD cause i really dont know what that is. i also looked for FAST GATE A20 but i couldnt find it in my ibm bios and it is the latest version of the bios. Windows boots without a problem, but it still takes about 30 seconds to boot up from the bios.

Wolfeymole · 11-16-2006

Sorry FDD = Floppy Disk Drive.
30 seconds is not an unusual amount of time.
Does all appear to be ok now?

eastonl33t · 11-16-2006

o, well, it seems to work all good right now, but i remember before that it took like 5 seconds to boot from the bios.

Wolfeymole · 11-17-2006

You could also edit the boot loader time out to a lower figure to save a few seconds.
Like so:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

11-16-2006	#1
eastonl33t Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	NO OS Detected hey guys, i have an ibm desktop, and i just replaced the harddrive inside because it was failing. So i bought a new 80gb eide WD and installed it, installed windows on it, and everything seemed fine. but sometimes when i start it up, it goes threw the boot order (floppy, cdrom, hdd, etc) and when it gets to the hdd part, it says "No Operating System Found. press F1 for repeat boot process". i just checked the bios and everything seems fine, the bios found the cdrom, hdd, everything. i am about to try a chkdsk and see if anything helps. and one more question, it takes about a minute to load from the bios screen. when i turn my pc on, it shows the IBM bios screen, and it stays there for about 30 seconds and the busy light its blinking like crazy but i cant hear the hdd? please help!

11-16-2006	#2
Wolfeymole Tech Support Team Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the Slaughtered Lamb having a pint. Posts: 4,484 PC Experience: Smarter than the average Bear	Originally Posted by eastonl33t hey guys, i have an ibm desktop, and i just replaced the harddrive inside because it was failing. So i bought a new 80gb eide WD and installed it, installed windows on it, and everything seemed fine. but sometimes when i start it up, it goes threw the boot order (floppy, cdrom, hdd, etc) and when it gets to the hdd part, it says "No Operating System Found. press F1 for repeat boot process". i just checked the bios and everything seems fine, the bios found the cdrom, hdd, everything. i am about to try a chkdsk and see if anything helps. and one more question, it takes about a minute to load from the bios screen. when i turn my pc on, it shows the IBM bios screen, and it stays there for about 30 seconds and the busy light its blinking like crazy but i cant hear the hdd? please help! Hi Eastern Welcome to PCHF Go back into the BIOS and change the boot order to; 1st HDD 2nd CDROM 3rd FDD 4th (If Applicable) LAN Also make sure the FAST GATE A20 option is enabled __________________ If PCHF has helped you please consider a donation by clicking this link Donate

11-16-2006	#4
Wolfeymole Tech Support Team Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the Slaughtered Lamb having a pint. Posts: 4,484 PC Experience: Smarter than the average Bear	Sorry FDD = Floppy Disk Drive. 30 seconds is not an unusual amount of time. Does all appear to be ok now? __________________ If PCHF has helped you please consider a donation by clicking this link Donate

11-17-2006	#6
Wolfeymole Tech Support Team Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the Slaughtered Lamb having a pint. Posts: 4,484 PC Experience: Smarter than the average Bear	You could also edit the boot loader time out to a lower figure to save a few seconds. Like so: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect __________________ If PCHF has helped you please consider a donation by clicking this link Donate Last edited by Wolfeymole; 11-17-2006 at 07:07 PM.

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