Hello recently ive been google'ing things to try and find answers to my computer problems and i found this site very information. However i have one huge problem.
The other day while playing an online game (americas army) my computer just randomly shut off, thus after reading this site i found out my psu died. Thus i replaced it. However now i have a bigger problem that i need help with.
Whenever i start up my computer it always says "primary master drive: None. And this is where the HD is suppose to be. I checked all the connections in the computer and they're all tight. I even reconnected everything. However i still get the message "enter boot disk cd" . So i pop in the windows cd then after thats complete doing whatever its doing i get this message "Your computer has shut down because it cannot find the file partmgr.sys" So i restart my computer then all of a sudden my primary master drive finds the HD... however 3 seconds later it says "primary master drive failed" Thus taking me back to the boot disk cd place and giving me the same "partmgr.sys cannot be found" .
What im thinking is did i fry my hard drive? Can someone please help me, this is driving me nuts.
Btw system specs:
ASUS A7N266 Mobo
1.6-1.9 ghz (cant remember)
AMD chipset
Western Digital 40 gb hd
Brand new installed Radeon ATI 9600 pro vidcard (I was playing with this card 2 weeks prior to my computer shutting down)
Brand new 300w power supply
The other day while playing an online game (americas army) my computer just randomly shut off, thus after reading this site i found out my psu died. Thus i replaced it. However now i have a bigger problem that i need help with.
Whenever i start up my computer it always says "primary master drive: None. And this is where the HD is suppose to be. I checked all the connections in the computer and they're all tight. I even reconnected everything. However i still get the message "enter boot disk cd" . So i pop in the windows cd then after thats complete doing whatever its doing i get this message "Your computer has shut down because it cannot find the file partmgr.sys" So i restart my computer then all of a sudden my primary master drive finds the HD... however 3 seconds later it says "primary master drive failed" Thus taking me back to the boot disk cd place and giving me the same "partmgr.sys cannot be found" .
What im thinking is did i fry my hard drive? Can someone please help me, this is driving me nuts.
Btw system specs:
ASUS A7N266 Mobo
1.6-1.9 ghz (cant remember)
AMD chipset
Western Digital 40 gb hd
Brand new installed Radeon ATI 9600 pro vidcard (I was playing with this card 2 weeks prior to my computer shutting down)
Brand new 300w power supply
