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Sager 8890 problem

post #1 of 4
4/20/07 at 7:39pm
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This problem actually started over a year ago. I had since given up on it and stored it away, but recently I pulled it out and I'm not attempting to fix it again.

The problem started when the landlord at our house replaced the breaker box on the house. This may just be a coincidence, but that's the day that my 8890 stopped working. When booted it say: "Ultra100 Bios not installed because no drives are attached". Also, it doesn't detect a hard drive in the BIOS setup.
I assumed the HDD just went bad, so to test this theory I put my other HDD in the 8890 and it still didn't work.
I suspect that the motherboard is fried, but I'm no expert.

Does anyone have any ideas?
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post #2 of 4
4/25/07 at 10:20pm
Did you try to boot it from CD?
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post #3 of 4
6/3/07 at 1:02am
Gawd! i've been having the same problem for a loong time.. I switched out the hard drives and it still does the same thing.. and I put the original hard drive I had in my 8890 in another laptop and it worked fine. I'm thinking its the motehrboard too :/ It seems to work randomly, i can just keep restarting until it reads the drive.. somtimes it works on the second try.. somtimes I try for 2 hours and it doesnt work. I'm thinking that maybe getting the hookups for the second hard drive where the second cd drive would be might be a good idea.. might bypass the problem if its just messed up on that part of the motherboard.. but I dunno.. :/ I just want my laptop to work.. Cant afford to buy a new one, especially when i've put so much into this one to keep it running over the almost 4 years i've had it.

Please, if anyone has a solution or more advice, let us know!
Thx
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post #4 of 4
6/6/07 at 6:19pm
When I installed Vista, it required the "Ultra.inf" driver before it could recognize any drives. With the help of a floppy disk I was able to load the driver. But then again, your Bios seems stuck. Can you boot from CD, do a repair and/or lload the driver from your floppy?
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