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So my PC I built myself has been running fine until recently. I noticed one of my HDDs had a loose connection so I used electrical tape to hold the wires up and I turn my computer back on but it doesn't finish post and I can't even get into BIOS or the set up menu. My computer "freezes" during post code A3 the "IDE initialization" and after so long it starts over.

My specs are:

I7- 2600- CPU

16GB- 4x4Gb DDR3 RAM

3 HDD's

A MSI Z68S-G43 motherboard

An EVGA/NVIDIA 1060 - Graphics card

And a Gigabyte WiFi Card

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2 minutes ago, Declanva said:

My computer "freezes" during post code A3 the "IDE initialization" and after so long it starts over.

Problem with the HDD.

 

2 minutes ago, Declanva said:

I noticed one of my HDDs had a loose connection so I used electrical tape to hold the wires up

Probably related to this.

What broke with the HDD that made you need to tape it together? Was it the cable that is bad or was it the connector on the HDD? If it's the cable that is bad, just replace the cable. SATA data cables only cost a few dollars. If it's the connector on the HDD that broke then the drive is probably screwed. If you unplug the broken drive the system should be able to boot as long as it's not the drive with the operating system on it.

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34 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Problem with the HDD.

 

Probably related to this.

What broke with the HDD that made you need to tape it together? Was it the cable that is bad or was it the connector on the HDD? If it's the cable that is bad, just replace the cable. SATA data cables only cost a few dollars. If it's the connector on the HDD that broke then the drive is probably screwed. If you unplug the broken drive the system should be able to boot as long as it's not the drive with the operating system on it.

I thought it would be just the one hard drive but I tried each hard drive alone and none worked either. I can't even get to BIOs to select my boot drive if I had to re install Windows

 

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