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01-25-2006, 09:25 AM
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Catastrophic Failure
Little background first. This is a 3.5 year old build. Its been working fine. I installed Windows Media Center Edition 2005 on it about 6 months or so ago. Still has been working perfectly. Daily virus scans with Zonealarm Security Suite.
Yesterday I decided to reboot for no good reason. Just to reboot and make sure everything is working fine. Shutdown goes fine, no problems before the restart at all. The computer begins to boot up and completely freezes. It begins the boot sequence and goes through POST fine. It detects the IDE devices fine but after it detects them it stops. It won't allow me into the boot menu. It won't allow me to do anything after it stops. It recognizes that I press the button for the boot menu but won't let me do that. Won't boot up windows. Won't let anything happen. I've tried to troubleshoot it myself. I've cleared the CMOS. I've unhooked the HDD to see if that would change anything. It doesn't. I've tried to boot using 1 HDD and that doesn't change anything. It seems like it is just getting stuck after detecting the IDE devices and nothing can unstuck it. I'm using a Giga-byte MOBO. Few years old, never had problems. 1 gig RAMBUS Ram. Intel P4 2.53 GHz processor. Windows MCE 2005. I can't even get to where I want to try to flash the BIOS. Please help me out. Is it time to put the old beast down? Thanks in advance. |
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01-25-2006, 10:15 AM
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Have you tried booting from the windows CD? or does it freeze still?
You usually have 2 HDD installed? is it possible to boot from both or does only one have windows on it? |
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01-25-2006, 11:15 AM
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haven't tried booting from the windows CD, will try that next. i usually have 2 HDD installed but only 1 has windows on it.
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01-25-2006, 12:45 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Try replacing the drive data cable (IDE or SATA).
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01-25-2006, 02:22 PM
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Can you get it to boot from a floppy or a CD? If so, run diagnostics on your ram.
www.memtest.org What video card is in there, and what are you using for a power supply? |
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01-25-2006, 02:59 PM
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ok, i'm gonna try those things and report back.
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