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Aw crap, I busted my computer!

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ViperMagic

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Well, heres what happened. I took my computer to my friends house. I tried to start it up. It half loads XP, then gopes to a blank screen for all eternity. If I try to run XP Setup, when I go to load the RAID drivers, XP yells about how it has them already. Now, if from here I use mine or XPs, either way itll yell about not having a hard disk. It clearly does, becase it can access them enough to load half of XP. I know the array is fine, the RAID BIOS scans the array perfectly. No new hardware recently, and it had been restarted a few times since I'd downloaded/installed anything new. Anyone have any ideas?

Heres my specs:
Athlon XP 1800
ASUS A7V266-E
GF3 Ti200
Zoom V.92 Modem
Netgear FA310TX NIC
2 WD 60GB in RAID 0
Raid controller is onboard, its a Promise 20265

Also, join my IRC channel, #helpViperMagic on undernet!
 
Well Bud, sorry to hear but you knew it was coming. We were all suprised it took this long and held a bet on how long it would take to break it but I lost...you owe me 30 dollars you bastard. 😀
 
Originally posted by: ViperMagic
all cables and connectors are tight, ive checked them roughly a hundred times. Scott, stfu
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Is this a real raid card or a bios "enhanced" software raid card? Will it work without it?
 
Originally posted by: ViperMagic
Honestly, i don't know. Theres a little chip on the board that says "Promise PDC 20265R", if that helps
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Its a software raid card. Try it without the raid or try rebuilding the raid stripes or whatever.
 
Originally posted by: ViperMagic
Hmm, rebuilding the array wont cause me to format, will it? Becase thats a situation i'd rather like to avoid.
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It probably would. Well, its not working now, that could possibly get it working... Yeah, a non-working computer is always better than a working one 🙂

You have backups right? You arent using some crappy POS raid like 0 right? You should be ok. 😛

Wait for better answers, I know very little about cheap hardware and even less about bad cheap hardware.
 
Damn at first I thought it was Viper GT who threw his computer off of his balcony because he couldn't get his MP3's to play without skipping
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Damn at first I thought it was Viper GT who threw his computer off of his balcony because he couldn't get his MP3's to play without skipping
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Ive settled for across the room because the machine would not boot off of cdrom...
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: ViperMagic
Hmm, rebuilding the array wont cause me to format, will it? Becase thats a situation i'd rather like to avoid.
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It probably would. Well, its not working now, that could possibly get it working... Yeah, a non-working computer is always better than a working one 🙂

You have backups right? You arent using some crappy POS raid like 0 right? You should be ok. 😛

Wait for better answers, I know very little about cheap hardware and even less about bad cheap hardware.
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Yeah, RAID 0 is just an accident waiting to happen, especially with IDE RAID, and with SW RAID... hmmm... it's not even that useful for speed...

I have heard about it so many times "i got nothing that i cannot reinstall on it anyway, and no important data" but when the sh!t hits the fan it's nothing but whine, whine, whine...

Even if you just use it for mail, IM, surf and gaming it sucks to have to reinstall, download drivers, configure, all settings... and all of your e-mails, shortcuts, favourites and saved games are gone if it crashes... ONLY use RAID 0 if you are prepared to deal with loosing that or if you got a good backup solution...

However... i am sorry to hear that it has crashed, if the array is broken, this is not strange, because it would start to load from one drive... then hang... try rebuilding the array... like n0cmonkey suggested... if you manage to get it back... BACK UP!
 
oh, this is by far the ultimate irony. I had decided that i was going to use my drives out of raid, and had planned to back up some stuff to my friends drive last wensday. Newegg sent him the wrong one, it was SCSI and we dont have an SCSI card... so I settled back and begun to wait. Now this. I've got a 35GB folder sitting there named "backup". Most of it isnt irreplaceable, but some of it (like the 2 400MB episeods of MASH that I hadnt gotten a chance to watch yet-- downloaded on a 56k@1k/s, or the 2GB of exe files containing everything from warez to every application needed to get a freshly formatted computer back on its feet.) would be a real PITA to get back. How realiable are data recovery tools? It was a 111GB array to begin with, there was 30 left. Would it maybe be possible to boot off another hard disk and access the array from that?
 
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