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[Spot.] · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:10 pm Post subject: I broke my computer.

I don't know how, I was installing Quicktime, and my computer suddenly rebooted. I thought this was because the installation had finished, and my computer was rebooting to finalize the change. However, I downloaded Quicktime from an external source. My BIOS has a password on it which I have not set, and on boot at the top i'm receiving the message HDD S.M.A.R.T ..........disabled, or something along the same lines. The computer proceeds to boot but nothing happens. The screen goes blank and windows never loads.

Furthermore, I decided to try re-installing windows. This does not work either, if I boot from CD then the screen goes blank also.

Am I fucked?

RockAndRollBand · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Aug 2009 Posts: 34

Well you could try calling your manufacturer :S all i can say tbh

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject:

your bios settings are broken. (including disk settings)

check your mainboard manual on how to reset the bios setting (usually a matter of removing all power, and removing the battery and wait a little bit, sometimes with a jumper to speed it up)

e.g my mainboard even has a button that resets the bios settings

trebor · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject:

If you have another cpu, delete everything on the HD, also, yes, you're fucked.
Sorry, Spot. D:

[Spot.] · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject:

compactwater · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject:

If you don't have a BIOS button, then you'll have to search all over your motherboard for a jumper that will reset the BIOS when you hit the power button (usually without booting the computer.)

For example, there will be a diagram of JP32 1-2 NORMAL 2-3 RESET. That means to find jumper JP32 and switch it to reset the BIOS. You MUST hit the power button, sometimes for a few seconds for this to work.

Hero · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:04 pm Post subject:

Rob. · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:08 am Post subject:

I had the problem the other day when I booted up my PC I hit F2 to go to Bios options -> Boot order -> S.M.A.R.T option -> enabled. If that doesnt work you will have to go to restore factory Bios settings but you might lose data im not sure I didnt have to do that.

Aniblaze · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:13 am Post subject:

[Spot.] · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:26 pm Post subject:

I followed a guide and put the switch on the back of my PC from O to I, then proceeded to remove the flat, watch-like battery from my PC for around 15 minutes. I replaced it and sure enough, the password was gone. I had to change my BIOS so that my CD-ROM boots first, and then rebooted. I don't need anything on the computer. The blank screen problem is still occuring, I believe I reset my bios settings again from the bios screen. I am now running a 'RAID CONFIGURATION UTILITY' and formatting my Hard drive. I read up somewhere that partitioning your drives using a Win98 CD and then proceeding to boot from a XP CD works, but I have been unable to find a Win98 CD. Hoping this works, still open for solutions.

-Sp

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:10 pm Post subject:

just run a repair install.

should be enough if you managed to hose the existing one

compactwater · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:05 pm Post subject:

Karakawe · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:08 pm Post subject:

Gparted (the GUI tool one booting a live Ubuntu distro might use to partition one's hard drive) has its own live CD, at a considerably smaller size.

[Spot.] · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:06 pm Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:20 pm Post subject:

check your harddisk settings in the bios, try setting them all to auto.
Also, try undo that raid you've setup, it's probably one of the causes xp doesn't see the disk