'Lo,
I came back from my Christmas hols to find my computer in sig did not turn on, not even motherboard lights. It was powered off at the power supply whilst away. I duly tested the power supply in another PC which did not boot.
I ordered myself a Corsair HX520 which did enable me to boot, but the BIOS stated the CPU had changed etc (I've seen this with nasty crashes before). So I went into the BIOS set everything up properly, and booted to Windows.
I've a dual boot system with Server 2008 and XP Professional. Each fails to boot, with Server08 crashing at crcdisk.sys and XP crashing at bt(something).sys.
Server08s memory check came back clean and the Samsung HDD utility did a surface scan came back clean. I played with Ophcrack (I guess it's CPU intensive) and it didn't crash (and cracked my PW in 1 minute
). I think my hardware is good.
I can't see the option on the Server08 install disc to repair the installation.
The XP disc can't see my drive (and I'm sure I didn't need to F6 my drivers as it's not a RAIDed system).
Any thoughts what to do next (apart from a full reinstall obviously!).
PS Ophcrack was running on the XP partition.
I came back from my Christmas hols to find my computer in sig did not turn on, not even motherboard lights. It was powered off at the power supply whilst away. I duly tested the power supply in another PC which did not boot.
I ordered myself a Corsair HX520 which did enable me to boot, but the BIOS stated the CPU had changed etc (I've seen this with nasty crashes before). So I went into the BIOS set everything up properly, and booted to Windows.
I've a dual boot system with Server 2008 and XP Professional. Each fails to boot, with Server08 crashing at crcdisk.sys and XP crashing at bt(something).sys.
Server08s memory check came back clean and the Samsung HDD utility did a surface scan came back clean. I played with Ophcrack (I guess it's CPU intensive) and it didn't crash (and cracked my PW in 1 minute
). I think my hardware is good.I can't see the option on the Server08 install disc to repair the installation.
The XP disc can't see my drive (and I'm sure I didn't need to F6 my drivers as it's not a RAIDed system).
Any thoughts what to do next (apart from a full reinstall obviously!).
PS Ophcrack was running on the XP partition.
