Big Tech Problem
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Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">My new comp!!!</div> I was playing CS on my computer last night, when it rebooted abruptly. No biggie, comps crash. Except, I couldn't boot into Windows. Now, whenever I reformat it it keeps telling me random files on the XP setup disk are bad, when i used the disk on my brothers machine the night before... The memory passes testing, bios are operable. The hard-disk works fine. Heres the strange part. When I try to swap my brothers hard-disk in to see if I can boot into windows it restarts before reaching the logon screen. I've reformatted it twice and I can't figure this out.
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I've had that problem and it was because my nVidia drivers went corrupt for some weird reason....and computer keeps rebooting when it is supposed to load the logon screen....related somehow??
As for how I fixed it....I just kept restarting until CHKDSK popped in and found the there was something way wrong, then it starte recovering 'orphaned' files and just got fixed from there....until I found out there weren't any drivers for my friggin videocard....
Just keep restarting until CHKDSK pops in to runs a disk check, mine did.
Plus, the fact that it happens with both your hard drive and your brother's leads me to think that it's definitely not windows or the hard drive. Where/when did you get this system? You may need to RMA one or more parts from it, unfortunately.
if it works, its your powersupply
if not, its your motherboard
also try plugging your computer into different outlets, check all connections (molex, ribbon etc)
and stick a soviet flag to it, for good luck
I had a problem like this before, I can't remember it exactly, but XP would not boot up. Im not sure if it was giving me an error message or not, but it turned out that an old CD drive I had hooked up had gone bad or something. I removed it and everything worked fine, never hooked it up again to see if it was just a random problem though.
Could also try unhooking anything not needed during bootup, floppy drives, CD drives, extra HD, soundcard, modem, network card, ect. If you can get to bootup after you remove everything but the bare essentials then you know its a piece of hardware.
and stick a soviet flag to it, for good luck <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That'd just make it fail more <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
and the soviet flag isnt blocking a vent, while that may result in the 'cool wavy patriotic thingy' its hell for your pc and may result in a burning flag <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Update: Using a BRAND NEW Windowsxp disk from a friend (not pirated)
It always fails to copy very exact files the first is dvdplay.exe, regardless of Professiional or Home, it fails to copy. Then when it reaches 70%-90% a LOT of system files fail to copy.
At 100% I was greeted with a BSOD that said "This error was generated to prevent damage to your compter"
Error "IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" The fact it contains the letters "IRQ" Horrifys me.
I will keep doing the setups untill I get every error possible and write it here. Thanks to all who are trying to help me. Its greatly appreciated
"UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Now, common sense tells me thats my hard-drive. However I can verify my drive to be fine. What-the-crap.
use all your stuff and his cd drive and his ribbon cables, and use a different power connector to the cd drive
Sounds like it’s hardware and could be any thing so basically just go through a process of elimination
So to start by remove every thing you don’t need so you got just the bare essentials
Swap power supply
Swap cables as suggested before if same problem then try if possible get a different hard drive and give it a go
You could try Swapping the Ram have only one chip in the motherboard (in case of compatibility problems)
Well good luck in finding out the cause
Sounds like it’s hardware and could be any thing so basically just go through a process of elimination
So to start by remove every thing you don’t need so you got just the bare essentials
Swap power supply
Swap cables as suggested before if same problem then try if possible get a different hard drive and give it a go
You could try Swapping the Ram have only one chip in the motherboard (in case of compatibility problems)
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Alright I should sum this up
-I have it freshly formatted
-Windows cannot complete setup
-Three errors given at random: "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" and "IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN"
-The system has had no changes. I was contently playing Counter-strike when my computer suddenly rebooted
-When copying files during windows setup the same files refuse to copy. The disk is in perfect condition. I tried two different disks.
-Sometimes It refuses to boot, when it does power on. This is with the 250volt setting on the Powersupply. However when its set to 115 it SOMETIMES powers on, but always boots.
-I want to cry
Boot your computer from the WinXP CD ROM. Does it give you the option to 'boot to Recovery Console'?
Oh, and is the error hexidecimal with lots of one letter, or is it like 0xc0000 etc.
I set the voltage to 230? I think it is, and it ALWAYS powers on, but never runs the POST. Just sits there. CPU fan spins, as does my geforce's fan
I told him it was his motherboard, RAM, and most likely related to the power supply as well. I *THINK* it might have flash-fried his board and that's why it can't really figure out where his hard drive or RAM is. The IRQL I have no idea, though I've heard of funny errors like that related to graphics.
NEW ERROR! yay!: "PFN_LIST_CORRUPT"
/me gives computer the middle finger