My system has gone down hard can anybody offer help

[JScalfani]

For some reason on my desktop i was burning a cd and then suddenly i get a blue screen saying physical memory dump. So i held the power button and did a hard shutdown. Now when i restart my computer it is not recongnizing either my cd-rw or my dvd-rom. And i get the message system boot failure. please insert boot disc. I am desperate i have no clue what to do at this point if anybody has an idea what might be the problem or how i can fix please respond.

 

[Corporate Thug]

is your system overclocked?

 

[StraightPipe]

you might try checking IDE cables, but it sadly sounds like a mobo issue

if you can get to CMOS setup (bios) then you might check and see there, also if the CD drives are in the boot sequence take them out until you get this fixed, that should let you into windows.

 

[CZroe]

First, eject the CD or any other media and boot.

Next, check your CMOS setup to see if everything is detected correctly.

If not, try disconnecting your CD-ROM drives and setting your hard drives to the appropriate settings (You may have to change a jumper to "single" if you were using a WD drive on the same cable).

Then see if they are detected.

If not, you're probably screwed. If so, the burn/crash was probably the dying throws of your optical drive.

 

[boyRacer]

reset CMOS

 

[JScalfani]

dammit i was wrong it's not my cd-rw and dvd-rom that is not being detected it is my two 60 gb seagate barricuda hard drives. I went into the bios and everything is being detected so i am not sure what to do at this point if anyone can offer help i would appreciate it still. Also nothing is overclocked on my system.

 

[StraightPipe]

are they both on the same IDE cable? it's strange you would lose them both at same time, makes me think your drives are probly ok, so avoid reformat if possible.

 

[CZroe]

If the CMOS is set to try other boot devices, it may have changed which drive it is trying to boot to. You'll get that error if it's trying to boot to the wrong drive. Could that be it?

 

[JScalfani]

both my hard drives are on the same ide cable. In the bios it detects both of the drive. and the system it set to check for boot from cd, floppy then hd so i know everything is formatted properly. I also have my comp set up with 2000 set up on each drive in case of such an incidence and my comp is not letting me boot to either drive. It can't be any of my drives i am having a problem with. Could it be my motherboard?

 

[JScalfani]

i'm back again i talked to a friend of mine and he said to put in the win2k disc and run a repair. I have never done this before and i was wondering do i the recovery console or the emergency repair process.

 

[CZroe]

If repair works, I still wouldn't trust the drive. I can't see how burning a CD could corrupt the master boot record or something. My brother clicked cancel when XP started to copy files that it thought he dragged and dropped on the DVD+R drive and it TOTALED Windows. He happened to be burning a DVD when that happened. The IMAPI service would fail and virtually any non-pressed CD would crash the system. No applications could burn CDs without a total reinstallation of Windows.