[SOLVED] Faulty driver broke my pc

[Wrench97]

But yet it won't boot correct?

 

[Cayden]

that is right, it will not boot.

 

[Wrench97]

Will it run chkdsk from the recovery consul?

 

[Cayden]

it runs but it does not find any errors and I tried all args. Same with sfc.

 

[Wrench97]

Does it boot into safe mod or safe mode command prompt?

 

[Cayden]

No and no.

 

[Wrench97]

Win7 Home Premium x64 right?

 

[Cayden]

yes

 

[Cayden]

after hours of trying to use a boot disk and having it fail (i couldn't even create it, I think that the image was corrupt) and at my wit's end I decided to use the recovery tool.

And it solve- oh wait, it made things worse.

Yeah so it wiped the drive and appeared to work fine until it got to installing windows. After a while it said "windows could not be installed on your hardware" then "windows failed to install, restart the installation" . . . this now loops constantly, I returned the bios settings to default with no luck (raid is default btw). Apparently my system will NOT boot with AHCI as the sata controller.

Hitting f8 now does NOT bring up the recover windows option.

Now I'm thinking my last resort is to try to download a linux distro and boot from that but I have no idea. Could the drive simply have failed? Literally every test imaginable I've seen and run over the years (which I run regularly) point to the drive functioning perfectly.

 

[Wrench97]

I'm wondering if the sata controller on the motherboard failed, what machine did you use to D/L and create the boot disk?

 

[Cayden]

I'm using my mother's old laptop which runs Vista SP2 32-bit.

I'm currently attempting to create a linux boot disk to simply see if i can boot into something at all.

 

[Cayden]

I managed to get ubuntu to work booting from an SD card (since I dont have anything else) using the laptop however I can not get my desktop to boot into the card no matter what i do (it has a media card reader and I have an external one). It just tells me Remove disks and other media press any key to restart. I press any key and it tells me to insert boot media. I've unplugged all hard disks and the dvd drive and it still wont boot into the card, it does not matter if the card is set to lock or not. I've partitioned the drive and formatted it with FAT32 using diskpart.exe. What's weird is that in the laptop during boot, it will tell me to select which OS I want, I dont even need to tell it to boot into the card


I've disabled the sata controller, changed boot orders to everything possible, tried nearly every setting i could find. I can't get it to boot into the card, even though on this laptop i can.

I dont think I have a dvd that I could try making a boot disk from that, however. If that's the only way to get this to work then I'll do that.

This is my last resort to get the system working again! please tell me what's going wrong

 

[Wrench97]

Try clearing the CMOS using the jumper on the motherboard it may be labeled CLR_RTC, plastic cap on 2 pins out of 3, remove it from pins 1 & 2 and place on 2 & 3 wait 10 seconds an replace on 1 & 2, make sure to unplug the power cord first then press and hold the power button several times to remove any residual power, if you can't find the jumper then remove the coin cell battery for half an hour.

 

[Cayden]

No jumper on mine so I removed the battery after clearing residual power - do I leave the system unplugged during this time?

 

[Wrench97]

Yes if not the 5v stand by will keep the circuit charged.

 

[Cayden]

Alright I removed it and waited for half an hour, no new results. Also i found the jumper, it was just really hard to see

 

[Cayden]

I see a lot of names who've looked at my thread, does no one else have any ideas?

 

[writhziden]

For the main problem: Have you tried different cables between the motherboard and drive(s)?

For Ubuntu: I don't have any experience with SD Cards, but if it works in one machine and not the other, I would imagine it is a BIOS setting that is causing issues or the system does not support SD booting. Check through the BIOS again. If that fails, a CD/DVD is probably the easiest method.

 

[Cayden]

Thank you. I have tried different cables (I have 3 sata power and data cables, I 'cycled' them through the three sata devices) with no change.

How can I tell if the BIOS/etc supports SD booting? It allows me to select to boot into any media format and to change the boot order to anything I want. Most people say that using an external media reader can trick the computer into thinking its a USB drive and I've tired that as well to no avail.

 

[Corrine]

I don't know if she'll have any suggestions, but I sent a link to LilBambi since she is very experienced with Linux. Figured it was worth a shot.