Lately, my computer has had some issues, but now, I can't get it to boot at all.
I'm running Win XP Pro on an Intel 875 reference board with P4 3.0, 1 GB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro, etc. The machine has run beautifully for the past six months or so. However recently, when I booted the machine, the splash screen would show, then disappear, then show, then disappear in and endless cycle. Usually, powering down would solve this, though my machine would say that it had "recovered from a serious error" each time. When I went through Windows' diagnostics, it said it had something to do with a device driver, but couldn't elaborate (not very helpful).
Then, a few days ago, I got an error that I can't really recall which said something about my RAM timings being set to their lowest levels. The machine booted fine after that, and I didn't run into future problems until today.
Today, I powered it on and it said something about a checksum error or "not found" and prompted me to hit F4 to enter setup. I did so and exited without changing anything. Afterwards, the splash screen shows, the drives spin, but the machine hangs blinking a cursor on a black screen. I've tried rebooting, powering down, nothing would work. So, I went back into BIOS and chose "optimal defaults", saved, then exited. Still, same problem.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
I'm running Win XP Pro on an Intel 875 reference board with P4 3.0, 1 GB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro, etc. The machine has run beautifully for the past six months or so. However recently, when I booted the machine, the splash screen would show, then disappear, then show, then disappear in and endless cycle. Usually, powering down would solve this, though my machine would say that it had "recovered from a serious error" each time. When I went through Windows' diagnostics, it said it had something to do with a device driver, but couldn't elaborate (not very helpful).
Then, a few days ago, I got an error that I can't really recall which said something about my RAM timings being set to their lowest levels. The machine booted fine after that, and I didn't run into future problems until today.
Today, I powered it on and it said something about a checksum error or "not found" and prompted me to hit F4 to enter setup. I did so and exited without changing anything. Afterwards, the splash screen shows, the drives spin, but the machine hangs blinking a cursor on a black screen. I've tried rebooting, powering down, nothing would work. So, I went back into BIOS and chose "optimal defaults", saved, then exited. Still, same problem.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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