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 ?
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 ?
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