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Recursion
15-03-2009, 05:56 PM
Hey,

So I took out a 320 gig IDE drive and so all I am left with is 2 SATA drives... now my BIOS on my PC is just sitting at a blinking cursor after it POSTs :(

Help!?

Thanks

Recursion
15-03-2009, 07:35 PM
Couldn't edit.

So I tried upgrading the BIOS and it didn't help.

I can boot the Vista installer from the DVD... it found startup problems, rebooted and it didn't fix the blinking cursor.

More info: http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/476645-p5k-premium-blinking-cursor.html

Tomm
15-03-2009, 07:52 PM
Sounds silly, but you tried resetting the CMOS?

Recursion
15-03-2009, 07:54 PM
Yeh, defaulted it and done the reset procedure.

Recursion
15-03-2009, 08:27 PM
Ahh I feel like an idiot now, I remember... Vista wouldn't let me format that storage drive so I formatted it in the server I was putting it in... perhaps the MBR is why! Now I know there is a way to write an MBR using the CMD on the Vista disk... I just need to find out the right commands :P

Why the hell Vista sticks the MBR on another drive is beyond me :/

Sorry for double post.

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