From unable to boot to unable to even try that process
Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 8:47 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2212 messages posted)
As noted, there are more ordinary diagnostics to perform prior to starting to assume
anything. Multiple reboots very well could have reflected something on the order
of a CMOS (Setup) glitch that would've been simple to fix; there are procedures to
follow to determine the cause of the system's symptoms.
You have offered very little information about those reboots, or why you started
swapping hardware around when you did so. Power supplies tend to be either all good,
or all bad, and seldom stay "in between", so why choose to change that?
Windows is very, VERY resistant to having the many bits of its hardware that are
represented by a motherboard, to be changed out, unless it is exactly the same make
and model board, and even then you can run into some complications. XP, with its
activation scheme for copy protection, is both more sensitive in many ways, and more
flexible about changes in other ways.
If you get the idea that there is pretty much no way that Annoyances' residents can
help you at this point, you are probably right about that. IMO, you have to start
over now with known-good parts, and hope you can salvage your data files.
.
Kiwi
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On Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 9:34 pm, vinny romano wrote:
>My pc started running slow the other day.
- Written in response to:
- absolutely no power. (vinny romano: Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 9:34 pm)
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