Hi, Dominic.

Did the computer ever boot? When did it stop booting? What happened just
before that?

Which Vista version is installed?

Vista loads the driver

Which driver?

What kind of HDD? SATA II? Have you checked its cables?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000

"Dominiccoombe" wrote in message
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I have a machine with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R mobo, 8GB ram and a 500GB
hdd
and plus video card and an IDE DVD rom.

Vista loads the driver then reports that it cannot find any new devices
which I assume it means it cannot find the HDD.

i have tried all kinds of permutations of the bios settings.

Can anyone help???

Dominic