re: From unable to boot to unable to even try that process
Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 1:21 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by vinny romano
(6 messages posted)
I did do all the diaganostics I was able to do before the pc died completely. Since
it crashed so fast the amount of diaganostics I was able to perform was minimal.
I was unable to access the bios settings or to start the pc in safe mode. From then
on.
If you're familiar with win XP, my pc did not continue past the point in which the
little bar was moving under the XP logo. My pc would continually restart itself
and never got past that point.
I chose to change the power supply because when I push the power button nothing happens,
as I mentioned in my first post. Also, on the advice of other pc users I know, it
was suggested.
Ive never had any problems changing hardware on this motherboard before so that's
not an issue.
As usual, forums rarely offer any real help. Rather, posts tend to critique the
poster until he/she just gives up and figure it out on their own.
If you have no real help to offer, please don't waste your time and mine. BTW I'm
trying a new HD next.
On Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 8:47 am, Kiwi wrote:
>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.
>
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>Kiwi
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