Recent content by Stonewall44

I feel for you, my friend. I've had two episodes of this exact type problem (different error codes, though). Both times it turned out to be hardware related. I tried every software fix in the book, and all the help that the good folks here, and elsewhere, could conjure. The first time it...

I've had nearly the identical problem recently. Computer wouldn't boot, black screen, the whole works. Because of the error codes, etc., that I would get, I believed it to be a hard drive failure. Bought a new hard drive, nope. Not the problem. Bought a new processor, again...no luck...

Amazingly enough, it seems that I've fixed the problem. It occurred to me that if pulling the J11 jumper caused the DMI Pool to Successfully update (which it had not been doing prior to that) then the next step should be to load Windows. I had put a new, clean HD in place of my old one and...

Oh...and no overclocking. Everything is stock right now.

Thank you for your reply Fredtam.... Ok....cleared the CMOS and that at least allowed me to get it to boot to Verifying DMI Pool Data. I've reset jumpers 10 and 11 on my mobo that specify the CPU FSB and set it to 100 MHz. I've done that without and real change except that if I leave jumper...

Another update....not the hard drive. Went out and bought a new Maxtor and installed the HD....no change in the situation. It won't let me get to safe mode. Everything I've described starts when I tell it to go to safe mode. Right now I've got the battery out of the CMOS to see if that helps...

Update, by pressing the power button off/on several times I was able to get the computer to come on. First boot screen loads ok, then loads PCI device listing, successfully loads DMI pool, then it gets to the nVidia Boot Agent with the message DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS...

AMD Athlon XP 2000 @ 1.67 ghz MSI K7N2L motherboard Crucial PC 2100 DDR ram IBM 40Gig Hard Drive Thermaltake Xaser III case Thermaright SLK800 heat sink Windows XP Home Edition (yeah, I know)

This morning I went to my computer to find a completely white screen with a black border on my monitor. I tried to reboot my computer and it went to a screen that told me that my computer didn't boot properly, do I want to continue normally, safe mode, blah, blah, blah. Thinking I had no real...

Then please tell me how you got it to do that. I play Soldier of Fortune II multiplayer (way too much) and have been unable to get the side buttons to work. The buttons on top don't work the way I'd like, but can't seem to change them. I read on one of the forums that the problem was with the...