I installed a PCI SATA card 6124A I think, and I might have installed the wrong driver. Now, upon rebooting, the BIOS wont load the operating system displaying the error in the title. I removed the SATA card and it is still happening. I tried lots of different stuff. Then, I reformatted both partitions, (it is a 250gig with a 20 gig and 230 gig partition) with a long format to fix drive errors, I suspected that maybe when I turned the case over the hard drive maybe have taken some impact (I am not the most gentle person with my stuff) it didnt fall or anything but I hear drives are delicate. I tried reinstalling windows and once it finished that first part with the blue screen and yellow text where it copies a whole bunch of files and reboots, upon rebooting from that I got the same message. What should I do? I have a copy of Spinrite 6 and when I scanned it at level 1 just a surface scan, it only showed blue squares, no red Us or Rs or Ds for defective sectors. I have never used spinrite before so I dont know if this is normal. Anyway, can you people help me?
If I were you I would reset the motherboard. There is a a 3 pin jumper that says reset. You remove the jumper and put in on the other 2 pins for about a minute to reset the bios to the default setting. Next just try to install windows again.
it is a pentium 3 so I'm not sure if there is a jumper but there is a flat battery, would that reset the bios if I removed it and put it back in again?
that will work also but you need to leave the battery off for at least an hour to release all the residual electricity. All motherboards have a reset jumper, I never seen one that didn't have one, especially the older ones.
