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mauron

mauron

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My son, building a new computer took the hard drive from mine & put it in his. He then overclocked his cpu & memory, then put HHD back in mine. Now it wont start, m/board logo etc come up, then windows XP, blue squares at bottom run across, then it goes back to m/board logo starts again & gives you the start options. It will only start in safe mode. Tried systems restore but as soon as it starts get message
swdsvc.exc application error
the exception unknown software exception (OxOeedfade)
occured intheappllication at location 0x7c81eb33
Any ideas anyone? We are both totally lost.
 
did he use your windows install?

as in booted from your hard drive?

that's a big no no and will have wrecked your install

need to do a repair install from your xp disc
 
Have you got spyware doctor installed on the hard drive? Sounds like a conflict of apps, I had zone alarm and spyware doctor on my pc and it was fireworks!! Depends on the version number, v5 was a pain with certain apps as well as some anti virus programs.

Kaspersky and spyware doctor sometimes have fights with each other on my pc. :)

To test for conflicting apps boot in safe mode and disable certain apps from starting up on windows start up, then reboot and see what happens.
 
Can you explain the reason for swapping your hard drive into his machine. Then over clocking his machine. Then swapping the drive back.

What was the drive being used for while it was in his machine?
 
Had spyware for 2 years. He used my harddrive because the harddrive he's going to use is in his old computer that he still using.Will trywith XP disk
Thanks folks
 
Can I just confirm that this is what you did:

Took hard drive out of your PC and put it in his?

Then used your XP install (on that HDD) to boot up on his machine? (also Overclocked his CPU/RAM etc)

Then put the HDD back in your machine - and it is now your machine that won't boot up?

If so, bledd obviously understood your post quicker than I did and I concur with what he said ;) :D
 
-doing that is a very bad idea btw.. becuase the system/chipset drivers are very unlikely to be similar on both machines
 
Tried XP re-instal this morning & that doesn't work, gets to the shutdown part & does the same , goes round & round in circles
 
sounds like a re-install is in order dude,

hijack his machine and his hdd, connect your hdd as a slave in his machine and use up his disk space and such backing up your data.

Keep his machine to ransom until you have yours re-installed and all your data copied back lol :D
 
It's probably a format/re-install job.

If you need to backup any files from it. Best you could maybe do is to put that drive in another machine as a 'secondary' drive (ie DON'T try and boot from it). Then backup all the files you need from the disk.

Then format it. Then put it back in your comp and re-install windows from scratch.
 
i wasn't try to be harsh, just re-read my last post, was just offering advice (i would leave a smiley here, but my colon button is broken!)

sounds like you might have to do a full format re-install -use the windows disc to do a format before copying the windows files (all data on the drive will be lost) -so might want to put it in your sons machine to get your files from it
 
Been speaking to a guy who knows a lot about windows, he says if you do what my son did windows reconise the harddrive is in another computer (from motherboard etc) and deliberately crashes and there's no way back without special software that the puplic can't get their hands on, luckily he's got as part of his job, local repair shop wants 80 quid to do it.
 
mauron said:
Been speaking to a guy who knows a lot about windows, he says if you do what my son did windows reconise the harddrive is in another computer (from motherboard etc) and deliberately crashes and there's no way back without special software that the puplic can't get their hands on, luckily he's got as part of his job, local repair shop wants 80 quid to do it.
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lol, he is talking rubbish.
 
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