I installed a PCI SATA card 6124A I think, and I might have installed the wrong driver. Now, upon rebooting, the BIOS wont load the operating system displaying the error in the title. I removed the SATA card and it is still happening. I tried lots of different stuff. Then, I reformatted both partitions, (it is a 250gig with a 20 gig and 230 gig partition) with a long format to fix drive errors, I suspected that maybe when I turned the case over the hard drive maybe have taken some impact (I am not the most gentle person with my stuff) it didnt fall or anything but I hear drives are delicate. I tried reinstalling windows and once it finished that first part with the blue screen and yellow text where it copies a whole bunch of files and reboots, upon rebooting from that I got the same message. What should I do? I have a copy of Spinrite 6 and when I scanned it at level 1 just a surface scan, it only showed blue squares, no red Us or Rs or Ds for defective sectors. I have never used spinrite before so I dont know if this is normal. Anyway, can you people help me?
If I were you I would reset the motherboard. There is a a 3 pin jumper that says reset. You remove the jumper and put in on the other 2 pins for about a minute to reset the bios to the default setting. Next just try to install windows again.
it is a pentium 3 so I'm not sure if there is a jumper but there is a flat battery, would that reset the bios if I removed it and put it back in again?
