Soldato
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- 13 Jan 2004
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i used to be quite good at this but i'm not now unfortunately.
system: 2gb pc with XP and running 3800+ at 2.8ghz.
reason/symptom: pc crashed and wouldn't reboot. would turn on fine but would only ever get as far as the progress bar loading windows before it reset.
what i did: to test it i ran F8 to bring up the menu options before loading windows. tried all of them and it crashed on all of them.
then tried to reinstall windows: wouldn't even get as far as reading/formatting the hard drive before it crashed.
then tested: memory. one stick in every channel and tested both sticks on own. same issues. changed SATA cable. same issues.
luckily i found an SATA hard drive that was my old one and it works. so connected it up and it ran/installed first time!!
then after installing 200+ poxy updates for windows i thought i'd try the other hard drive again to see if i could see what the issue was. it ran fine... but it suffered a lot of corrupt file issues with windows and windows copied a load of files which i then deleted. i formatted the windows segment (had partitioned it thank god) and every runs fine! i can access all my files now fine.
was it just a file corruption? why wouldn't it even load windows the first time to avoid all the aggro?
system: 2gb pc with XP and running 3800+ at 2.8ghz.
reason/symptom: pc crashed and wouldn't reboot. would turn on fine but would only ever get as far as the progress bar loading windows before it reset.
what i did: to test it i ran F8 to bring up the menu options before loading windows. tried all of them and it crashed on all of them.
then tried to reinstall windows: wouldn't even get as far as reading/formatting the hard drive before it crashed.
then tested: memory. one stick in every channel and tested both sticks on own. same issues. changed SATA cable. same issues.
luckily i found an SATA hard drive that was my old one and it works. so connected it up and it ran/installed first time!!
then after installing 200+ poxy updates for windows i thought i'd try the other hard drive again to see if i could see what the issue was. it ran fine... but it suffered a lot of corrupt file issues with windows and windows copied a load of files which i then deleted. i formatted the windows segment (had partitioned it thank god) and every runs fine! i can access all my files now fine.
was it just a file corruption? why wouldn't it even load windows the first time to avoid all the aggro?
