HopelessSam Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 Hey guys,In a bind now. I am a college student trying to fix my broken hp dv6700 for 2 months now... I have tried everything, lurked this forum a lot, trying to get the USB installation, no work because of good old Hal.dll error.The CD ROM drive is unbootable, nothing loads from the installation cd, and i know its the cd rom drives fault since the cd boots fine in other computers...I tried almost everything, even xcopy and trying to run via DOS to install, no go... since I realized my SATA drivers werent installed...I bought an external floppy, tried booting via 98 start up and winnt.exe, still no go since windows couldnt find my hard drive... i tried fdisking a new fat 32 volume, it says no physical disks presents. However, I know it is working fine, cause BartPE detects it and shows its running normally...So now, I have to install the SATA drivers... but cant since when i press f6 on floppy boot it just keeps going, and ignores the f6 command, aka it asks for floppy #2 ! And if i continue, at the end of floppy 6 i just get a blue screen error associated with sata driver missing.Does anyone know how to fix this problem! Hell I will throw a few bones their way, this has caused a wreck!! I just want to install xp...I was thinking maybe somehow installing the SATA driver BEFORE the XP installation...any help there or how do I fix the f6 problem... i tried the textsetup.oem fix... but that is for methods besides the floppy... i can get the usb down and the scsi pops up, BUT still the hal.dll error...Thanks a lot in advance!
iamtheky Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 change the SATA controllers in your BIOS to ATA mode or IDE compatibility mode (dont know what each BIOS calls it but if you can get it off AHCI mode, try another selection), and load normally?
HopelessSam Posted January 30, 2009 Author Posted January 30, 2009 change the SATA controllers in your BIOS to ATA mode or IDE compatibility mode (dont know what each BIOS calls it but if you can get it off AHCI mode, try another selection), and load normally?Hi, my POS PhoenixBios does not seem to support this, HP really made BIOS almost completely useless except change boot order....Any other thoughts
iamtheky Posted January 30, 2009 Posted January 30, 2009 http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2579-001037.pdflook at the jumper setting for PM2 (ATA Mode)Your hard drive should have a similar jumper setting indicated in the documentation.From my past experience just because the BIOS does not list the setting, does not necessarily mean it does not support the functionality. But you will know really quick if it has failed because the drive wont spin.
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