Aharami
Lifer
first off, im running XP pro SP1
ok so it happened right after i finished downloading the ut2k4 vid file from this thread.
right after it finished downloading, it started moving it from the temp folder to my download folder. while doing so comp crashed and the blue screen of death came up...something about memory dump. didnt really pay too much attention to it cuz it happened twice b4 and all ihad to do was reboot and everything was fine then.
well this time, i reboot...but instead of xp loading up, i see this message right after mem check
thats it! nothing else. oh and the HDD led is on constantly (i dunno why that matters...but i just noticed that). so i try pop in the XP cd, boot from he cd and go into repair mode (DOS like screen).
i have two hard drives in my comp...60 gig and a 120 gig. 60 gig is partitioned into C:\, D:\, E:\, and 120 gig is partitioned into F:\, G:\, H:\. But in the repair mode, C:\ is showing up as F:\; D:\ as G:\ and E:\ as H:\. its like my 60 gig doesnt even exist!
also in BIOS, it says "not installed" for my IDE-0 master. it should show the 60 gig as the master and 120 as the slave for IDE-0. the rest of my IDE devices (120 gb HD, DVD, and CDR drives) show up ok in bios.
anyone have any clue as to what might be the problem? i hope its as simple as the IDE cable going bad...and nothing with the HDD itself. but i'm never that lucky!!
thanks for reading
ok so it happened right after i finished downloading the ut2k4 vid file from this thread.
right after it finished downloading, it started moving it from the temp folder to my download folder. while doing so comp crashed and the blue screen of death came up...something about memory dump. didnt really pay too much attention to it cuz it happened twice b4 and all ihad to do was reboot and everything was fine then.
well this time, i reboot...but instead of xp loading up, i see this message right after mem check
thats it! nothing else. oh and the HDD led is on constantly (i dunno why that matters...but i just noticed that). so i try pop in the XP cd, boot from he cd and go into repair mode (DOS like screen).
i have two hard drives in my comp...60 gig and a 120 gig. 60 gig is partitioned into C:\, D:\, E:\, and 120 gig is partitioned into F:\, G:\, H:\. But in the repair mode, C:\ is showing up as F:\; D:\ as G:\ and E:\ as H:\. its like my 60 gig doesnt even exist!
also in BIOS, it says "not installed" for my IDE-0 master. it should show the 60 gig as the master and 120 as the slave for IDE-0. the rest of my IDE devices (120 gb HD, DVD, and CDR drives) show up ok in bios.
anyone have any clue as to what might be the problem? i hope its as simple as the IDE cable going bad...and nothing with the HDD itself. but i'm never that lucky!!
thanks for reading
