After formatting my computer's hard drive, the PCI bus will not install. I've tried both Win 98 & system disk.
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Look at the motherboard.  Who made the chipset?  (Intel, nVidia, etc...)  You might need to download the driver from their site, hopefully you have internet access from another PC.
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Try having a qualified technician check the wiring inside the computer between the hard disk and the controller on the motherboard.  This can be particularly flakey with SATA drives.
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It sounds like there is a lose connection between the hard drive and the motherboard.  Check your ribbon cable.  If that is not it maybe do a chkdsk/f to check for any errors the drive may have.
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If cable was an issue it would not have worked at all. Do this to get a resolution. I hope you are using a Seagate HDD (cuz its widely used but my steps have nothing to do with a brand. It,s in general)\n\nTurn off your PC. Unplug it from the mains. Ground yurself by touching the cabinet. Now remove the HDD CAbles from Both motherboard and HDD. Blow some air on the ends of the cables and also the points where you put in the cables on the motherboard and HDD. Now plug it back. Start your PC and directly go to the BIOS and check if your HDD is detected or not. IF yes just reboot the pc and start ir. IF not then some issue here. You can also unplug the HDD and get it to yur Friends pc and check if it works on the first attempt or still it takes time.If it works there then you can narrowdown the problem in yur PC. IF it does the same there Get yur PC to the desktop anyways. Once done go to your HDD manufacturers website. BAck up your data first. Download a software that can do a low level format on your HDD. Follow the instructions and do a low level format and then reinstall the OS. If it still does the same replace it if its under warranty. \n\nSo you got the solution. GO follow it get back on your PC as soon as possible. Best of luck.
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YOU have discovered the problem with buying a pre-loaded system.  If you change the hardware, your OS won't load.\n\nThey got a special price on the OS, BUT it HAS to be used on THEIR system. (SOMETIMES even a minor upgrade, an additional PCI board, etc., is enough to cause it to stop working.  THEY wantyou to buy a NEW one, NOT upgrade the existing machine!!) \n\nThe ONLY solution is to either reinstall ALL the original parts; or buy, or download a new OS for your "upgraded" system, depending on the OS you decide to use.
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make sure it's properly connected to the motherboard [data cable alignment is ok and power is connected], also make sure it's not disabled through your operating system or the system's BIOS
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no, PCI bus and PCI express bus are completely different.\n\nedit:\nthis is a NIC that is designed for PCIe, it would work in all types of PCIe slots (x16, x4 and x1).\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833127163\nbut it's horribly expensive!
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From your question, I don't find any problem on it. Your disk is working fine. Things to take note - when installing new hard drive, especially SATA disk, Windows 98/Me/2000/XP requires additional driver to help it read the hard disk's chipset.\n\nIf you self-assembled your system, you should notice there's a floppy drive/driver CD OEM from your motherboard supplier. Install the driver while your SATA disk still attached. Use the User's Manual to guide yourself when installing the driver. Make sure you successfully install the driver. After wards, everything will be fine.\n\nIf you bought your system from the vendor, there's a bit different. They should equip you with software/drivers/documentation for your self-keeping. If you are missing any of these, please consult your vendor. Perhaps you may request them to configure the SATA for you - with a little charge of course!\n\nHope this help.
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Make sure the internal connections are still there, and then reinstall the drivers.\n\nmaybe its just busted.
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The Windows install disk doesn't install the drivers for the sm bus controller. For all of you that are searching for this you did NOT install your chipset drivers yet! To get any kind of decent performance out of windows you will want to be running fairly up to date drivers of everything in your computer starting with your chipset and video card
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I think you need to try to upgrade the BIOS. and make the HDD. Master
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Re-boot and go into the Bios and see if they are being recognized there.  If not, try a different power connector from the power supply. It sounds like the drives aren't even getting power. It's hard to believe both drives could go bad at once.  Even if the IDE Controller went bad, the drive tray will still open as long as it's getting power.
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Did you delete the old card drivers before installing the new one. Add and remove hardware. Try putting the old card back in and see what happens. It might not have been able to install the new one if you didnt delete the old drivers first.You might now have to reset the bios settings.
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Make sure your CD drive is set as a slave or secondary master drive in your BIOS, and also make sure that it's first in the boot sequence. If it can't detect the drive, then there's a hardware problem with the CD drive itself. If you can get that to work, then try using the Repair feature on the XP install CD. If that doesn't work, then just reinstall Windows.
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Do NOT use Partition Magic! I have seen it completely corrupt hard drives many times!\n\nIf you have everything backed up, the easiest way is to boot of the Windows CD and re-parition it during the installation.  Just follow the insructions.
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make sure you have all the drivers.... you probably have a driver cd from dell. just put a windows cd in the drive and when the pc boots hit f2 for bios, and go to boot order, make the cd rom first in the list. then the cd will boot before the HD, and it will give you the option to reformat
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This is not for a regular user, but if you are brave enough, do this.\n\n1 turn off your computer.\n2 turn it on again, but be prepared, you must hit the "delete" key if is a generic PC, if is a Brand PC should be F1 or F10 key, If you nave your manuals check what is the BIOS set up key, you must hit that key before any operating system start to work, otherwise will not work, so just when turn it on you keep hitting on the key until the bios set up appears.\n\n3 browse in the setup options and find the auto disk detection menu, and put it to work.\n\nIf the bios do not detect the unit, is because is not connected right, and need to be reconnected, or check for a damaged cable.\n\nthen if is detected, just save the changes on the BIOS, and exit the setup program.\n\nit will restart again and work OK.\n\nbut if you keep having that trouble often, it means that is not installed the right way, or the cable has some bad connection.