Totally hosed my sys!

[dajo]

Pushed my P4S533 too far and got a hard disk write error - rebooted and got a win.com not found (win98). Tried re-installing win98 and did a million fixes resulting in quite a few c:\dir0000## directories which appears to be my former windows directory.

Windows will not find any new devices. In Device Manager I just see a few system resources - no Plug and Play. Tried flashing the BIOS but it didn't help and I didn't think it would because the OS on my secondary drive, which I am using now, found devices just fine.

Anyone have any ideas about how to get my sys back to the point where it finds PnP devices?

Thanks!

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

sounds like pci bus was too high
did you back down to stock speeds before attempting the reinstall and such?

 

[boyRacer]

Eghk... corrupted data?... dunno how you could fix that other than a full format... but i thought that happens over time and not instantaneous...

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
Eghk... corrupted data?... dunno how you could fix that other than a full format... but i thought that happens over time and not instantaneous...

overclocking pci bus does it as well sometimes

perhaps low level format?

 

[dajo]

You can definitely trash data by overclocking. It's one of the most common and most devastating side effects - much more likely than damaging your components (as long as the voltage is not increased unreasonably).

Oh well! I've ordered Win XP Pro as I was going to do that anyway. Will start with a fresh install/reformat.

Working off my secondary now which is fine except that for some reason it keeps showing a resource conflict for LPT1 port. Only thing is there is no conflict listed and no other device is using that IRQ.

Also, I keep getting an "unknown hardware" at boot up and cannot figure out what that is.

Anyone have any ideas for these issues?

Board is Asus P4S533. Good board. No AGP/PCI bus lock, but pretty solid and pretty fast.