bios does not recognise hard drive.

[khalix]

Here's the deal my wife droped her laptop and spilled coke all in the back of it. Well i did what i'm supposed to do i imediately took out the battery memory and hardrive so the computer can dry. Well i waited three days and put it back together it booted to windows vista fine but the only problem was the fan was hitting the side of case as it ran. I was releived because of all the other things that could have been wrong. So i took the laptop apart and fixed the fan put it all back together and now it won't reconize that a hardrive is present. I do networking for differant companies but i don't know the pc repair feild like i should. It sounds to me like a sata board. please help

[Akira Takano]

From the sound of it, you may not be getting a good connection to the SATA interface. Take it apart again, double-check everything, and put it back together. If it worked fine before fixing the fan, chances are, you just have a lose connection.

[khalix]

From the sound of it, you may not be getting a good connection to the SATA interface. Take it apart again, double-check everything, and put it back together. If it worked fine before fixing the fan, chances are, you just have a lose connection.

Thanks I'll try that tonight

[thewebhostingdi]

If it does not work, try with another same kind of working harddisk (IDE or SATA). If it does not work, the problem is with the connector of harddisk.

[khalix]

I put another hard dive in the laptop and it did not work but that hard drive works in my toshiba

[Biker920]

Repeat your tear down then look for any connection that might come loose during reassembly & make sure all connections survive reassembly