hi guys, first time in this forum because i urgently need help with repairing my house's tower before going off to college. anyways...
my computer will boot up to the first screen displaying the installed RAM then goes to a screen that says
"RAID Option ROM Version 3.0.1545.46
(c) 2008 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All Rights reserved.
Scanning Drives __"
and then it just stays there forever. and ever...
The system Specs are as followed:
AMD Phenom 9650 Quad core Processor 2.3ghz
8.00 DDR2 RAM (in 4 sticks)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 Gbytes
Windows 7 Ult.
So from what i can see, the computer freezes between the first screen that pops up and before windows starts loading. i've tried flashing the bios to see if it'll let me get into setup. Also, if i try pressing f10 (which is my default setup button to get into the bios), i still can't get into the bios menus because it gets stuck on the whole "scanning drives" thing. next, i tried to see if i had faulty RAM sticks by trying every combination of RAM sticks possible (taking one or a few out then seeing if the computer will get past the "scanning drives" screen), but that didn't produce any viable results. my final try would be to switch out the hard drive but i don't have any spare hard drives i can use (that use the SATA connections anyways). i'm planning on buying another hard drive regardless of i can get it fixed or not, but i still would like to know if there is anything i can do to fix the problem beforehand.
Any help will be much appreciated
