I'm in big trouble, help me please!

[littlewing]

So I uninstalled my Nvidia forceware graphics and my nforce chipset drivers. I then rebooted and ran Driver Cleaner in safe mode. Then I ran the filters for the display and chipset/raid/ata drivers. After that I ran CAB CLEANER (which is what I think screwed up my system). Now, everytime I tried to boot up into windows in order to install the new drivers it just won't come up! I mean the screen with the "Windwos XP Professional" and the little loading bar with the 3 green bars running accross it won't come up. The PC will simply boot up and then right before that screen is supposed to come up the monitor will go blank (the green light will turn yellow) and it will reboot itself. Then it will say "Windows XP did not boot up properly what options..blah blah blah" So I choose boot up the last good configuration of Windows and no luck there, same problem. Then I try to boot in safe mode and again same problem. Someone please help me.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Try to fix the MBR?

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu.../XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_ldau.asp

 

[littlewing]

ok i'll try

 

[littlewing]

"Master Boot Record has been successfully written"

It didn't fix my problem. Thanks for the suggestion though.

HELP!

 

[mzkhadir]

boot into safe mode.

reinstall the drivers

reboot.


on another note:
for f*cks why would you reload the mbr, it doesn't do s*it for driver problems.

 

[littlewing]

i already said that I can't get into safe mode either. it does the same thing, right before its gonne go into safe mode it reboots.

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: littlewing
i already said that I can't get into safe mode either. it does the same thing, right before its gonne go into safe mode it reboots.

what other modes have you tried and did you try to reinstall windows.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
boot into safe mode.

reinstall the drivers

reboot.


on another note:
for f*cks why would you reload the mbr, it doesn't do s*it for driver problems.

Next time you decide to open up your mouth and use profanity, read the original post..He can't get into his OS. Fixing the MBR does work in some instances!

 

[boomerang]

If it was mine, I'd do a repair install.

If your XP CD is not at SP2, I'd recommend you slipstream SP2 into it before doing the repair. This is assuming you were at SP2.

 

[deathwalker]

I second the motion to do a Repair Install of your OS.

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: deathwalker
I second the motion to do a Repair Install of your OS.

I third that motion :beer: why did you uninstall everything anyway?

 

[littlewing]

I uninstalled all the drivers so i could update them. its worked before. i think CAB cleaner messed my OS up.

I could format but I would lose all my data in the process. If I do a repair install would i still lose all my data?

 

[deathwalker]

Nope...repair install will not effect installed programs or saved data...go for it

 

[bdoople]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
boot into safe mode.

reinstall the drivers

reboot.


on another note:
for f*cks why would you reload the mbr, it doesn't do s*it for driver problems.

Next time you decide to open up your mouth and use profanity, read the original post..He can't get into his OS. Fixing the MBR does work in some instances!

Only works when you can't get past the MBR. He stated that he could get into the Advanced OS options menu with safe mode and the like displayed, meaning that he could get past the MBR.

 

[littlewing]

now how exactly do I repair the installation using the recovery console?

 

[boomerang]

No, no not the recovery console.

Here's a link with the procedure. It's not the best tutorial, but it'll do.

It will seem like you are doing a clean install of XP. You are not. It will take as long as a fresh install.

I suggested slipstreaming SP2, because all your system files will be restored as they exist on the XP CD. You will have to download all Windows updates including SP2 unless you slipstream. Your choice, but for security reasons, it's a good thing to do.

Slipstream link.

Your data, programs, desktop, etc. will not be affected as mentioned earlier.

 

[littlewing]

Ok i'm in the middle of it but a new problem has sprung up.

While it was reinstalling I got a message:

"The File 'nvatabus.sys' on SRCDATA is needed

Type the path where the file is located and then click OK"


What is this file, where is it, and how should I proceed?

Thanks.

 

[boomerang]

Skip over it. Google that file name to find what it is.

 

[littlewing]

it has to do with nvidia drivers. i googled it.

should i still skip over it?

 

[corkyg]

Download it and put it on a floppy or something you can point to and access.

Nvidia

 

[deathwalker]

That file is a part of the Nvidia platform drivers and is the IDE sys file. If you have a second machine..download the platform drivers...extract the file....then copy the Natabus.sys file to a floppy or cd and then retry..or...skip it and if the system will start ok...it will get installed when you install the nvidia platform drivers.

 

[imported_nocturne]

I have the solution right here... (I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that did this, hehe). Basically, XP no longer knows to use the default mobo driver and can't find the original to init the ATA bus.

If you're on FAT32 it's as simple as booting into dos, finding the NVIDIA install directory, and copying nvatabus.sys back to WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS.

NTFS was a LOT harder. In the recover console, you only have access to the windows directory unless you configured it before to allow access to drives. Since NTFS permissions are usually all screwy for user made folders, I couldn't even get into c:\NVIDIA to get the driver (so close but so far) using a NTFS boot disk. I had to download the drivers on another pc along with a NTFS boot disk and file manager utility. After a lot of dicking around with the boot disks I got it to work.

There ya go (I didn't say it would be easy, btw). Might as well upgrade to the remix drivers (I love 'em), and I also recommend staying with the XP ide driver. Every system I tested it on the MS was better.

 

[imported_nocturne]

As I said... the hardest thing is transferring the file if you use NTFS. Be sure to check out several NTFS boot discs on google. I d/led a bootable CD on that worked great., but I don't remember the name of it.

 

[littlewing]

Man that sounds hard. I repair install won't work you think?

 

[boomerang]

I look at it from this perspective. If I was doing a clean install of XP, I would not need those drivers to get a functional system. The IDE drivers built into XP will allow the system to boot.

I would install these drivers afterwards, from either the CD, or the latest off the net to get full functionality.

This is why I said to skip it.

Now, if you're running a SATA drive with a chipset does that does not natively support SATA, well that is another story.