Hmm, cant reinstall...any ideas?

Dazzler69

Dazzler69

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Hi guys, need ya help please! All of a sudden my pc has decided to not load windows (xp) anymore. Ive made no changes to hardware/software.

I cant get into windows/safemode/command prompt, it just restarts when it gets to a certain point. It did come up with a error once (\i386\system32\ntoskrnl.exe could not be loaded, the error code is 4)

I've tried booting off the xp cd, and it doesnt recognise the drives (prolly because I need a disc to load the scsi/raid drivers, but my pc doesnt have a floppy drive and I cant find the drivers anywhere anywhos.

So I thought i'll load vista upgrade that I got with the pc, I boot from the disc and all it says is: "cannot load setup \windows\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe is missing or corrupt."

Im kinda going round in circles with this one, any ideas appreciated!
 
Sounds like there's a hardware error of some sort in your machine. Have you got spare ram to try? Or get MemTest and boot off that and it will test your memory.:)
 
I've seen this error plenty of times before when running RAID and fixed it by using a BootCD with hard drive manufacturers tools on it (I would mention the name but it has warez on it) and scanning the drive for errors. The errors were fixed and I carried on as normal.

Alternatively if you have access to a working machine you could use nlite to slipstream the drivers you need into your windows CD allowing you to access the drives and run the recovery console/chkdsk
 
Ice on fire-
Hmm, well memtest has been going for almost an hour now...
There's a lot of red! So far there are 1,087,488 errors & no passes!!! Can this be right?!

Ive got 4 sticks of memory, so how do I know which ones needs replacing? It looks like all of it is naffed if the test is correct.

Mta99 -
Thanks for the reply, soz, I wasnt very clear. Ive got a sata drive in there, but I dont have any raid array set up, it just asks for third party drivers when you first start installing windows otherwise it dosent seem to recognise the drive.
 
Dazzler69 said:
Mta99 -
Thanks for the reply, soz, I wasnt very clear. Ive got a sata drive in there, but I dont have any raid array set up, it just asks for third party drivers when you first start installing windows otherwise it dosent seem to recognise the drive.
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I understood what you meant, you obviously didn't understand me ;) The reason I mentioned RAID was because like having SATA a vanilla windows disk doesn't have the drivers so requires F6 on boot. By using an up to date bootcd you'll *probably* have access to error checking tools as the CD will see the SATA drive. Alternatively (or in addition to a bootcd) slipstreaming the drivers into the windows cd with nLite will mean that there's no need to press F6 on boot as the correct drivers are already on the CD :)

Having said all that.......looks like your RAM is on the blink. You overclocking at all?
 
Cheers for that,

Nope, not overclocking at all, the test is still going & still racking up the errors! Rubbish. Im hoping it is the memory though & nothing else because the prices are pretty good at the moment.
 
Well the memtest just kept on going & going finding errors. Is it worth buying new memory do you reckon, or could the error be caused by something else other than the memory being naffed?
 
Dazzler69 said:
Well the memtest just kept on going & going finding errors. Is it worth buying new memory do you reckon, or could the error be caused by something else other than the memory being naffed?
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If everything's at stock, then you need some new ram.

Fortunately, it's the cheapest component in most machines at the moment :)
 
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