Please please HELP !!!!!

Nic Miller

Nic Miller

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Major problem with PC...please help am devastated.

Setup:

Asus P5N32-E SLI
2 GB GeIL ultra low latency 800Mhz RAM
E6600
BFG geforce 8800GTX
2 hard drives in RAID 0

Decided (stupidly I know) to use the AI booster tools in windows to overclock I altered the speed bit from 266 to 280 - ie from 2,394 Ghz to 2,520 Ghz - fine no probs - Oblivion ran noticeably smoother! Easy I thought - put it up to 286 x 9 and the PC crashed out. Could even enter the BIOS. So cleared CMOS and managed to get into BIOS and put my settings back. Turn on again and it posts then shows the correct RAID array then the following is on the screen:

NTLDR missing
Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart

Then press any key to boot from CD.....
(which is fine and can enter the windows setup if necessary)

Then if I don't press a key

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart
and the system hangs with no command prompt.


What's going on? what is NTLDR ? Why has it gone? How do I get it back? I have all my saved games on the hard drive and really don't want to lose them!

Please please please help..............

Thank you

Nic
 
try here, I cut & pasted this rom the web

NTLDRmissing.com - a problem common enough to deserve its own domain name, of course it redirects to another site. It helps you make a NTLDR boot disk to get back into Windows and Use windows to fix the boot files on the hard drive. And this is why the problem occured in the first place they say


a better one here

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/12/ntldr-is-missing-press-any-key-to-restart/
 
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NTLDR is the boot loader that loads the XP operating system into memory when the computer boots. Should be fixable if you have a look at the posts above (although you may have to reinstall Windows).

And yes, your save games should still be there :p

From the site Masterdog found:
1. Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
2. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
3. Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
4. Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter.
5. You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password.
6. Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter "E". This letter may be different on your computer.

copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

7. Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.
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That should fix it.
 
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if you had to reset cmos and you have a raid array plus another hdd your bios will auto make the other hdd the priority boot one...
 
only a RAID array.

Am really depressed if I can't get this to sort itself without reformatting the HDD.

Has put me off overclocking now. Is this a common prob or is it caused by doing the overclocking in windows?

grrrrrr......

Thanks for suggestions though !
 
Nic Miller said:
only a RAID array.

Am really depressed if I can't get this to sort itself without reformatting the HDD.

Has put me off overclocking now. Is this a common prob or is it caused by doing the overclocking in windows?

grrrrrr......

Thanks for suggestions though !
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If you're going to reformat, get a live CD of some kind (BartPE can make them) and boot from that, so that you can back your stuff up (assuming you have something like an external hard drive or another internal hard drive or something).

If you do this, you'll need your RAID driver floppy at hand so that BartPE can load the drivers when it starts (otherwise you won't be able to access the RAID discs).
 
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not that i mean to be rude or tight but you sound like you are fu**ed ...

i am sure i read in a mag once how to get that back...
 
Nic Miller said:
only a RAID array.

Am really depressed if I can't get this to sort itself without reformatting the HDD.

Has put me off overclocking now. Is this a common prob or is it caused by doing the overclocking in windows?

grrrrrr......

Thanks for suggestions though !
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Its not due to OCing. Theres a few things that can cause it, and the 6 stage fix posted above SHOULD fix it.

As long as you can get to a DOS prompt, you can do the fix above and that should resolve it.
Outside of that, repairing windows may well work, or reinstalling windows completely, if necessary.
 
paul_64l said:
well your the one who doesnt know how to go into bios and change your boot priority's
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sorry but why did you say that i have never once said about the bios.. i think you mean someone else.
 
hehe sorry.. thought u were the bloke at the top asking for help and then calling us names... you should really get your av on so you dont get treat like a noob
 
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