Up untill a couple days ago my pc run fine, it would happily startup and shutdown without any problems untill last night! when booting it would either stop during post where its detecting IDE hard drives or if it managed to get past that it would lock up when tried to boot into windows.
So basically i booted into safe mode and found it was freezing when loading agp440.sys and a quick google search on this found the answere to disabling that but now again if it manages to find the HDDs in the first place it locks up when it gets the the screen that displays the windows XP logo with the little blue scrolling bar underneath it.
anyone got any clues as to how i can get into windows? please dont say just reformat as i made the mistake of using the spanned volume option within windows disk management and i dont want to lose all my files
the little fan the cools my northbridge failed a couple months ago so i think that the chip may be running hot/damaged? could that have something to do with not being able to detect the IDE drives?
Thanks for any help you can give
So basically i booted into safe mode and found it was freezing when loading agp440.sys and a quick google search on this found the answere to disabling that but now again if it manages to find the HDDs in the first place it locks up when it gets the the screen that displays the windows XP logo with the little blue scrolling bar underneath it.
anyone got any clues as to how i can get into windows? please dont say just reformat as i made the mistake of using the spanned volume option within windows disk management and i dont want to lose all my files
the little fan the cools my northbridge failed a couple months ago so i think that the chip may be running hot/damaged? could that have something to do with not being able to detect the IDE drives? Thanks for any help you can give
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