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Big problem with Sager 8890

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5/6/06 at 3:14pm
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A few months ago out landlord did a little electrical work on our house. He just changed the breaker, but I suppose it caused some sort of electrical surge. My computer was fine because it was hookup up to a surge protector, but my girlfriend's was another story.

When it boots it tries to go to the OS and it says something like 'no operating system found BIOS is not installed' so I thought I'd just flash the BIOS. Not so easy. I have the bios file installed onto a boot floppy and I can't get it to boot from the floppy drive. I had it set to the first boot device so I know that's not the problem. I tried to boot the computer with Slax and it just gave me some random hard drive errors. I then put her hard drive in my computer and it wasn't detected. so after that I tried to put my old laptop hard drive in her computer (this one was still functional) but it wasn't detected.

I think her whole main board is shot, or at least the IDE controllers. Can I get a second opinion?
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5/8/06 at 7:25pm
Hi Garett, I would say (barring a BIOS problem) that you do indeed have a controller issue. If a known good drive does not work, that would be your best guess. Do you have the bracket/interface kit for the second bay? If you do I would try that, or even if you have the hardware necessary to connect it to the TV tuner bay (3rd bay). If you can, rule them all out. As to your trying a BIOS update, is the floppy you tried bootable? Unless you downloaded the EXE file linked on these boards somewhere, you need to create a bootable floppy first and then get the BIOS files onto it. If you cant find the EXE on these boards with the complete boot floppy ver 10 BIOS image, you can PM me your email address and I can send you the one I have created. Good luck to you, take care, Andy
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