S 939 System Problem - Help

AgedIdiot · 21 Jun 2010 at 20:24

A few yrs ago gave my son my old system.

x2 3800 (clocked to 2.4)+ 2x512mb ram + 2 x 80gb Maxtor h.d's running raid '0'+ 8800gt gpu+dvd re-wrter drive - all on an Asus A8N-SLi Se 'board. O.S. - XP Home

No problems whatsoever until this weekend.

Sons away @ uni. and his comp does not get used much, if at all , while away. Probably been about a month since it was touched when on Saturday looked to switch on (wanted to test a h.d on it...) when it dawned that it was not booting.

Boiling it all down ; cmos battery had failed.

No problem - just install a new battery

. Done ...but still not booting.

Look out manual - to adjust bios to allow for raid etc BUT NO overclock - and tried again ... No luck

After a no. of attempts finally got to the 'welcome' screen when got the message
windows will be shutting down as ' c\windows\system32\services.exe' was terminated unexpectedly.
Error code '1073741819'

Did a google but swamped with ref. to virus's etc - it's not a virus ; never on line on line etc and worked well day he went back to college

Advise anyone ?

Could simply repair windows?

Could Install on a.n.other drive (got a 250gb Hitachi going spare)

Or should I not waste my time and simply 'junk' it ?

thingemajib · 21 Jun 2010 at 20:28

perhaps your son broke it and decided not to say anything?

if you boot off the Xp disk, there should be a recovery console option somewhere along the installation process (cant remember exactly where, its been a while since ive installed XP outside of a VM, but if you get to the drive partitioning options, then you've gone too far), where you can run things like checkdisk and startup recovery tools

Larok · 21 Jun 2010 at 22:48

id try another hard drive if there was one free, see if it fixes it.

AgedIdiot · 21 Jun 2010 at 23:02

Anyone know what the error code refers to when it's not a virus ?

Yakyb · 22 Jun 2010 at 00:09

depending on the importance of what is on the drives i woudl just load failsafe defaults and do a clean xp install

sounds like it would be fine after that

Admiral Huddy · 22 Jun 2010 at 10:45

Yes you could opt for a reinstallation of windows without overridding you files, just remember to select repair rather than a new installation. However, a clean install would be preferable with a fresh format of the drive, at least that way you know you are starting from fresh.

AgedIdiot · 22 Jun 2010 at 19:54

Thanks for the replies.

Tried to do a repair - guess what -windows cannot find a hard drive

Bios sees the raid array but windows cannot - unless i let it try to boot from hard drive when it finds it :rolleyes:

I believe that to repair I'll have to re-load the Raid driver (the press F6 if you want to install raid driver etc). Have got floppy but no floppy drive so will have to re-install floppy drive before trying repair tomorrow.

If I'm wrong in believing that it's the raid driver 'issue' - please let me know; to avoid wasting time.

Could , simply , install onto new HD - no raid etc. Obviously quicker but would lose data......

Am beginning to ? wether board or (one of) hard drive is fu.... ?

All this for a failed cmos battery?????