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Hello. I am a bit of a noob with a frustrating problem. I recently built a computer with help from friends, and now I can't get it to... well, to do much of anything.
* H61M U3S3 ASRock motherboard
* Appropriate Intel chip
* solid state OS drive
* spinning data drive
* external USB optical drive
(You can tell I'm not a spec nerd or else I'd list out all the product specs.) Anyway, we got this thing running with Ubuntu + XBMC and I was having fun. Eventually I started poking at the fstab file and managed to mess that up, and while I was trying to fix that, during one of the reboots, I received the following error message. At first I thought I'd caused the problem by frobbing fstab, but now I'm not so sure.
Asmedia 106X SATA Controller Ver 0.90 IDE Mode
S.M.A.R.T. Supported
Using PCIE Gen 2
Can't find any device.
The problem here is that I can't even boot into the BIOS to debug the issue or to wipe-and-reinstall my operating system. I have tried
* Holding down F2, or F1, or F10, or F12 at startup makes no difference. I never see a message offering to drop into the BIOS, nor does holding down any key change the message which appears.
* Booting from a CD is unsuccessful. It sort of spins up for a bit, seems to start reading the disc, then stops.
* Jumping the CMOS pins didn't change anything. Same message, no difference. I also tried removing the motherboard battery and then putting it back. No difference.
* I disconnected the two drives. Same message.
* The motherboard does seem to POST. I don't always hear it beep, but sometimes I do.
When I've searched the web for "Can't find any device", it seems that this is a "normal" error message indicating lack of bootable drives. That sounds about right, but then why can't I get into the BIOS? What else could I try? If I could get to the BIOS, or start from a CD, then I could probably fix my problem.
* H61M U3S3 ASRock motherboard
* Appropriate Intel chip
* solid state OS drive
* spinning data drive
* external USB optical drive
(You can tell I'm not a spec nerd or else I'd list out all the product specs.) Anyway, we got this thing running with Ubuntu + XBMC and I was having fun. Eventually I started poking at the fstab file and managed to mess that up, and while I was trying to fix that, during one of the reboots, I received the following error message. At first I thought I'd caused the problem by frobbing fstab, but now I'm not so sure.
Asmedia 106X SATA Controller Ver 0.90 IDE Mode
S.M.A.R.T. Supported
Using PCIE Gen 2
Can't find any device.
The problem here is that I can't even boot into the BIOS to debug the issue or to wipe-and-reinstall my operating system. I have tried
* Holding down F2, or F1, or F10, or F12 at startup makes no difference. I never see a message offering to drop into the BIOS, nor does holding down any key change the message which appears.
* Booting from a CD is unsuccessful. It sort of spins up for a bit, seems to start reading the disc, then stops.
* Jumping the CMOS pins didn't change anything. Same message, no difference. I also tried removing the motherboard battery and then putting it back. No difference.
* I disconnected the two drives. Same message.
* The motherboard does seem to POST. I don't always hear it beep, but sometimes I do.
When I've searched the web for "Can't find any device", it seems that this is a "normal" error message indicating lack of bootable drives. That sounds about right, but then why can't I get into the BIOS? What else could I try? If I could get to the BIOS, or start from a CD, then I could probably fix my problem.
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