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10-11-2006, 10:18 AM
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PC Problems after 7 months
I finished my first build with the help of this forum about 6 months ago. It has been working perfectly until now. Here are the specs:
Asus A8N-E AMD 64 X2 4200+ WD 250 GB SATA 2GB Corsair RAM ATI GPU DVD-ROM and DVD-RW drives Floppy Drive This morning the PC wouldn't boot to Windows. It was hanging on the screen where it shows information about the drives, etc. The screen that comes on right after the ASUS logo screen. I got it to boot to safe mode once, now it won't anymore. So, I pulled the CMOS battery, and moved the jumper to reset the CMOS. Started it up, and went into the BIOS. Put the settings back to normal, and re-booted. Now, it hangs on the ASUS logo screen, and it even hangs when I hit delete to go into the BIOS. Can't go into safe mode, either. So now I unplugged the hard drive, optical drives, and floppy drive per ASUS' recommendation. Got a CMOS checksum error - Defaults Loaded, press F1 to continue. Pressed F1 and got Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. Turned off the computer, and only plugged in the hard drive. Computer boots to Windows fine now. So, the problem must be one of the optical drives or floppy. What do I do now? Should I plug each optical in one at a time to find out which one it is. Is that drive dead, or can I re-install Windows or something to get it to work? |
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10-11-2006, 10:51 AM
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Looks to me like you are almost at the problem, try reconnecting the drives one at a time to see which one is stopping it from booting.
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10-11-2006, 01:43 PM
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Yeah, that's what I'm going to do, but my question is....what can I do once I find which drive it is? Does it mean that the drive is dead? Will a format fix the problem?
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10-11-2006, 01:49 PM
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Well, if the drive prevents the computer from booting, your not going to be able to format. If a drive causes a PC from booting, then it is pretty much gone.
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10-11-2006, 01:51 PM
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Well I have two optical drives, so I could still format unless both are gone...unless like you say the drive is dead.
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10-11-2006, 02:01 PM
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If the offending drive is an CD/DVD then you just replace it. No need to reformat if an optical dies.
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