ItsBrokeAgain
Junior Member
Here is a wierd one!
first off I would like to thank you for helping me with my dellema in advance. I know this post is more of a short story, I just want to give all info i can. I am about to pull my head bald!
This system worked fine a maonth and a half ago.
the system:
PC shop built PC This PC was built in Dec 2001
Win XP Pro fully updated with all patches
Latest Drivers tested/ factory MS drivers tested (for all hardware)
FIC AD11xp [AMD761/VIA chipset w/ h/s & fan]
Athlon XP 1600+ retail kit w/ h/s and fan ( No not OCed)
512Meg Kingston DDR
Lite-On CD-RW 16x10x32
matsumi 4x CD-rom (don't laff lite on won't boot from cd)
Maxtor 20gig UDMA 66 5400 HD
cheepo 1.44M floopy
split in 2 part. C:\13 gig E:\6gig
Boots from C:\ no muti OS here
built on sound card AC 97 type
PNY GF2 MX 400 vid card ( no not OCed)
generic Intel based NIC T10/100
Alcatel Speed touch ext ethernet DSL modem
BT848 vid cap card (inop no drivers/disabled in HW profile)
Generic Case W/300 watt certified P/S
ms kb (p/s2)
ms wheel mouse (p/s2)
extra cheep sounding speakers!
Gateway EV500 CRT
yes i do dust regularly also with canned air.
What happens is whenever I start the PC Cold, or at the start of a day things seem fine. it takes a goodly amount of time to "get things loaded on desktop and I cannot do anything for about 45 seconds. I note that Norton AV has a red X on it in systray also
then it simply springs to life.
all i have running in bkgrnd is vol control NAV 2002, AIM, and that dang MSN messenger!
Ok it gets worse!
i hope u are still reading, man i hate typing!
if i "turn computer off" or try and warm or cold boot
I get several errors depends on the puter's mood i think.
#1 occasionally
Black screen, white letters,
Windows cannot load ntoskrnl.exe please reinstall a copy of this file.
Reboot:
#2 always jsut about
Windows cannot find windows/system32/config
says it's missing or corrupt.
i tried 4 restores!
please use win xp disc and press "r" to restore this file
To get rid of this and reboot I have to actually turn the PC off and unplug the power cord or turn the I-O hard switch to off for about 20 minutes.
Like some capacitor has to "discharge"
then if i', lucky i see my lil win xp boot screen and the thing goes back to slow desktop start. and then back to normal like now!
also preodically when using CD-RW things slow down considerably. almost like using a 133mHz PC. as of the last re-install i did. that may be due to my CDRW being a slave drive on the IDE 1 (not same as HD)
what I do Know:
I have tired 2 other HD's in the PC, i can't even install win98 on any drive using this machine.
I have reformatted and re-installed XP pro 3 times one day. I have run the "restore" utility also.
Oh and i eate meh reg with Nortons Utils 2002 (i will never use again)
I think i have an IDE controller going south. I note that when this happens I see no HD activity lite nor sound from HD before error messages.
I have even switched IDE cables around and swapped known good ones.
I have no real clue as to what is wrong only meh speculations to the IDE conrtroller.
well, thanks for reading this expremely long tedious post you deserve a pat on the back even if you can;t help me!
any help would be greatly appreciated as my system is under warranty, but I have no money to get anywork done on it unless it's a covered part. 🙁
u see we have a baby on the way! :-D so i have to be "frugal"
thanks,
Rick
first off I would like to thank you for helping me with my dellema in advance. I know this post is more of a short story, I just want to give all info i can. I am about to pull my head bald!
This system worked fine a maonth and a half ago.
the system:
PC shop built PC This PC was built in Dec 2001
Win XP Pro fully updated with all patches
Latest Drivers tested/ factory MS drivers tested (for all hardware)
FIC AD11xp [AMD761/VIA chipset w/ h/s & fan]
Athlon XP 1600+ retail kit w/ h/s and fan ( No not OCed)
512Meg Kingston DDR
Lite-On CD-RW 16x10x32
matsumi 4x CD-rom (don't laff lite on won't boot from cd)
Maxtor 20gig UDMA 66 5400 HD
cheepo 1.44M floopy
split in 2 part. C:\13 gig E:\6gig
Boots from C:\ no muti OS here
built on sound card AC 97 type
PNY GF2 MX 400 vid card ( no not OCed)
generic Intel based NIC T10/100
Alcatel Speed touch ext ethernet DSL modem
BT848 vid cap card (inop no drivers/disabled in HW profile)
Generic Case W/300 watt certified P/S
ms kb (p/s2)
ms wheel mouse (p/s2)
extra cheep sounding speakers!
Gateway EV500 CRT
yes i do dust regularly also with canned air.
What happens is whenever I start the PC Cold, or at the start of a day things seem fine. it takes a goodly amount of time to "get things loaded on desktop and I cannot do anything for about 45 seconds. I note that Norton AV has a red X on it in systray also
then it simply springs to life.
all i have running in bkgrnd is vol control NAV 2002, AIM, and that dang MSN messenger!
Ok it gets worse!
i hope u are still reading, man i hate typing!
if i "turn computer off" or try and warm or cold boot
I get several errors depends on the puter's mood i think.
#1 occasionally
Black screen, white letters,
Windows cannot load ntoskrnl.exe please reinstall a copy of this file.
Reboot:
#2 always jsut about
Windows cannot find windows/system32/config
says it's missing or corrupt.
i tried 4 restores!
please use win xp disc and press "r" to restore this file
To get rid of this and reboot I have to actually turn the PC off and unplug the power cord or turn the I-O hard switch to off for about 20 minutes.
Like some capacitor has to "discharge"
then if i', lucky i see my lil win xp boot screen and the thing goes back to slow desktop start. and then back to normal like now!
also preodically when using CD-RW things slow down considerably. almost like using a 133mHz PC. as of the last re-install i did. that may be due to my CDRW being a slave drive on the IDE 1 (not same as HD)
what I do Know:
I have tired 2 other HD's in the PC, i can't even install win98 on any drive using this machine.
I have reformatted and re-installed XP pro 3 times one day. I have run the "restore" utility also.
Oh and i eate meh reg with Nortons Utils 2002 (i will never use again)
I think i have an IDE controller going south. I note that when this happens I see no HD activity lite nor sound from HD before error messages.
I have even switched IDE cables around and swapped known good ones.
I have no real clue as to what is wrong only meh speculations to the IDE conrtroller.
well, thanks for reading this expremely long tedious post you deserve a pat on the back even if you can;t help me!
any help would be greatly appreciated as my system is under warranty, but I have no money to get anywork done on it unless it's a covered part. 🙁
u see we have a baby on the way! :-D so i have to be "frugal"
thanks,
Rick
