So, I got The Orange Box recently and it has been a ***** to get to work properly. I figured that it might be a problem with my graphics driver and downloaded a new one from the website. Before installing it, I removed the old one since I read that installing the new one on the old one might cause problems. In the end of the uninstall I got the message which asked me to restart the computer. So I did...
As the computer rebooted, I found myself in the BIOS, not knowing how I got there. While I was there, I figured I might as well undo the overclocking I had done because I had read some game engines are sensitive to it. Since I didn't remember where the tab exactly was, I just clicked the Fail-Safe configuration button....silly me. Next thing I know (after the reboot), my computer no longer detects my hard drives.
As the computer starts, I first get the message
''Sil 3132 SATARaid BIOS Version 7.23.3
Copyright to blablabla
Press [CTRL+S] or F4 to enter Raid utility''That disappears quite fast and is then replaced by the
''Reboot and select proper boot device
or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key''When I enter BIOS and take a look at the boot configuration tab, there are only my DVD drive and Floppy drive available as the boot devices! No hard drive.
Luckily enough I had a Ubuntu disk which I could use as a boot device (bless you, [digi]) and under the Computer tab I can't see any hard drives either, just DVD drive, generic storage device and file system, which I assuming is the CD Ubuntu is running off.
I attempted to download the ATI driver from their website and install it, but aparently Ubuntu doesn't know how to handle .exe files because it simply gives me an error message.
Any ideas?