session 3 initialization failed

[muppet90]

Hi all,

I have agreed to look at my friends computer problem is (she turned the computer on - message saying (no operating system found) I used a copy of windows ME to get to the c: and did an fdisk it was showing the hard drive so I knew it couldnt be that so I formated it from there.

When I put a copy of XP on there it loads all the windows files/drivers before you get to the point of the (EUA (F8 to aggree) it comes up with the ((session 3 initialization failed)) blue screen of death I have read on a few sites that say it could be the memory but I have tried the 512 stick in the othe 3 ram slots - and I also used 1 stick from my computer and it still gives me the blue screen of death I even used my genuine copy of xp to see if it was the disk

can anyone help me I know its not the hard drive nor the memory I just need to know if its the motherboard ?

Also - I thought I might see if I can get ME on the computer and it worked I can get the ME operating system on there - but when I go to load XP it doesnt want to know it at all from boot up - Maybe I may try loading XP through ME otherwise any other suggestions are welcome

Any help would be fabulous!

[shadowpr]

Go to the hard drive manufactureers page and download and run the hard drive diagnostics.

Also go to www.memtest.org and run memtest

[muppet90]

I have done the Memtest and that was ok it passed everthing - trying the ultimate bootdisk 8 now to see if that gives me anyoptions

Thanks for your help

[shadowpr]

Let us know what happens.

[muppet90]

Originally Posted by shadowpr Let us know what happens.

I have done all that the only operating systems that I can use is ME I just spent the last 4 hrs wiping the computer from scratch using a secure erase program from ulitimate boot disc and nothingg works I am loosing my hair now lol

[flanzig1]

The Ulimate Boot disk has HD utilies to test the HD.
When you get "No Operation System" message at boot up, that usually means a bad HD or at least a bad ribbon cable.

[aetherwalker]

I had this problem and found the solution here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/archiv...p/t-16007.html

All I had to do was try a different Optical Drive. The one i had installed was SATA and I switched over to an IDE drive and it worked fine. Ironically I was trying that already when I read it on the forum however. Seems to have fixed the problem for at elast 3 people so far. Good luck mate.

...of course this post is a year old... but will possibly be helpful should anyone stumble this way...