Sata my sata stopped working . on bootup the screen says they are offline . checked bios everything switched on . any suggestions ?

wow a 8 pin DIP. chip.
new coin cell battery
fans dead
bios dead
screen dead due to 2010 and older monitors have bad CCFL tubes? lamps.
if screen works say so if bios splash shows up tell that too and if bios screen all work tell that too.
flashing BIOS ON siCK PC is over the top DEAD WRONG ACT>
or the flash bricked the PC like millions of folks just did wrong.
stop flashing for fun or kicks or phases of the moon, OK or go broke fast, 10 ways to do it worn I have a list of 15 wrong.
leave the bios alone, ok>? firmware does NOT LEAK out
or Julian Assage lied to you (LoL) or some kid did.

Hi, you can download and renew the drivers from here:

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Download a manual first and check the bios settings.
Click on global for download.
Unzip the file after you have downloaded it.

The second harddrive has to be configured as slave with the jumpers
on the drive.
Check the jumpers before you continue.
Your operating system must have at least service pack 2.
Maybe you have to upgrade the bios to the latest version.
Make sure its the right bios or you will destroy the mainboard.

GOTO BIOS BY PRESSING DELETE OR F2 ON BOOTUP

CHECK FOR DEVICES
IF IT IS NOT THERE
SHUT YOUR PC DOWN
CHECK FOR YOUR IDE /SATA CABLE TRY BY REPLACING IT
CHECK POWER CABLE OF YOUR DRIVES

OPEN BIOS AGAIN
GOTO BOOT MENU
TRY CHANGING NOW.

New HDD Not Recognized by Computer

This occurs when the HDD is not “Initialized” by the disc management system in Windows. If you do not have software that came with HDD or the HDD is a secondary drive for backup and is not to be used as an initial boot device, then when you installed the drive it did not go through the necessary steps or Windows simply failed to do it’s job. In this case, connect the drive as you normally would, go to the control panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Look in the left Pane, scroll down and click on Disk Management.
Your drives will be listed here, even if they are not initialized. Look below the top pane and find the disk that is listed without a drive letter. If you look at where the drive is named, it will also say “offline”. Right click in this area that says “offline” and click on “Initialize”. The system will ask a few questions, just click ok to what it asks, this will initialize the disk and you can then partition the new drive to how you want it set up.

Press F2 at bootup to enter BIOS. Reset everything as if it a brand new computer. Sitting idle for sevenmonths any computer could have gone dead. Reset HDD, bootup sequence, keyboard etc etc. everything.

First open cpu cabinet.
Then disconnect power cable and sata or ide cable from harddiks then connect agagin.
Also check your ide or sata cable which connect to hdd works fine.
Refix your RAM memory to.
Then when you power up the computer press F! or F2 or "del" key to enter in bios.
Then check in bios that your hdd is detected?
Then if detected set first boot device in boot optionj in hdd then check.

Let me know if you need more assistanse.
Thanks.

I cant be sure since I can't see the error during bootup. But its highly possible that you forgot to plug in a extra power cord that goes into the video card. at the upper corner of the video card. you will see a black plug with 4 pins on it that needs a power source. You have that from your power supply that normally people use it for a floppy drive. Plug that in here and that should work. If it still doesn't, give me the exact error during bootup and I'll help you from there.

Go to BIOS and disable "NATIVE SATA SUPPORT"

Get into the BIOS screen and make sure that the hard drive is detected under the SATA port. If not you may have to set it to auto. In some BIOS cases it is turned off by default. You may also have to turn off the IDE in the BIOS so the computer does not go looking for it. To get into the BIOS look for a screen message on startup (during or after the splash screen, before windows starts) that says something like "Press F2,Esc,Del,etc to enter setup."
Once in setup the instructions for navigating it should be somewhere on the screen.

I've seen systems that default to booting from the latest installed drive. I suspect that your BIOS has this set. Go into the setup and check. If it has this set, set it to the drive you want to boot to. This will probably keep happening if you like to boot the system without the drive connected unless their is a BIOS update.