cybersmoke1
Technical User
my girlfriend brought over her computer to have me take a look at and fix, thing is i have never seen any computer do this ever.
motherboard is an older socket 7 intel motherboard(sorry not sure what the numbers are for it)
now what happens is i turn the computer on, it goes through the pre and post tests, then just after it verifies dmi pool data it will say Disk I/O error please replace disk and press any key
this is not an issue with the hdd, i have tried 4 in it total 2 of which were my own hdd's that i use on a regular basis. i have tried the ide cables, its not an issue with them either. i have also tried the hdd's in both primary and seccondary with and w/o jumpers, and w/wo master and slave
same error every time... the first thing that comes to mind is maybe the ide controller is fried, but it autodetects the hdd's fine so i have trouble accepting that option. any help is greatly appreciated id hate to tell my girlfriend that her computer is dead
motherboard is an older socket 7 intel motherboard(sorry not sure what the numbers are for it)
now what happens is i turn the computer on, it goes through the pre and post tests, then just after it verifies dmi pool data it will say Disk I/O error please replace disk and press any key
this is not an issue with the hdd, i have tried 4 in it total 2 of which were my own hdd's that i use on a regular basis. i have tried the ide cables, its not an issue with them either. i have also tried the hdd's in both primary and seccondary with and w/o jumpers, and w/wo master and slave
same error every time... the first thing that comes to mind is maybe the ide controller is fried, but it autodetects the hdd's fine so i have trouble accepting that option. any help is greatly appreciated id hate to tell my girlfriend that her computer is dead