Media cable failure, no drives present at all!

[Ashestoashes]

Hi

I recently had a problem come apparent with my Dell 490 workstation. Before running XP, I get a startup message in the Bios stating "Media Cable failure" and notes No Boot Drive Available. Using the boot menu, only the Intel Array or Network Controller show up. I have gone into the setup utility and both the SATA drives and CD drives are showing as "not present" yet when (through the boot menu) I run the hard drive diagnostic, it recognises both and says both are bootable. On the Bios it also shows the Intel Array as Bootable.

In the Boot menu, even the CD drive doesn't show up as available so I can't run the windows cd to try repair console and i can't seem to get safe mode running.


Any ideas at all??????

Many thanks

Paul

[glendalf81]

i googled the error message you are getting and came up with this, it was the first hit
Invalid / Non System Disk error
not sure if this will be of much help to you
also the computer may be trying to boot from a network check in the bios to see if this is the case, and if so change it