primary slave not detected

scotty1971

my daughters computer keeps displaying the message pri slave not detected,then goes to a screen that displays"reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in sected boot device and press a key" all options are set to auto detect.

any help would be appreciated

thanks

scott

OneADay

Did the problem just start?
Did you put a new disk?
Could be the jumpers on the drive are not set, the bios setting is not set properly (to detect drives or the boot order), loose wire connection, failing drive or motherboard.
Take your pick.

scotty1971

nothing new been added,just started today,is there anything i can try to fix it?

OneADay

If the bios has autodetect facility, try that first - it could be the bios has been changed.

Is there more than one disk in the pc? If only one, not sure why its looking for primary slave.

After that - its a case of opening the case (pun pun) and looking at the computer cables, checking for loose connections and do above again. Be careful to disconnect all power to case.

Can't be jumper settings if its been working before - so if above fails - its likely to be dead disk. You would need to do other things to check after that.

PS - if you have windows install disk - you can try do a recovery/fix (could be a corrupt partition problem)

closed

disable primary slave in bios and look to see if primary master is detected

how old is the pc?

scotty1971

opened it the tower up,disconnected everything and reconnected,this seems to have fixed it,thanks for the advice

scott

spud17

Those SATA cables can work lose, don't exactly know how.