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URGENT! Need Help! An Issue I've Never Seen

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MixDJ

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Ok, let me give you guys the lowdown.

A buddy of mine bought a new barebones pc.

He took the new one and put his hd and parts in it. It works fine.

Then, he swapped out his wifes old system for his.

This is where it starts.

He has a PC Chips cheapy chipset (m810LR) and when he put it together and booted it up, it worked fine aside from a few issues.

Well, my buddy being the budding tech, he figured the system drivers from the new bios disk would fix his issues.

Boy was he wrong. Nevermind he never called me to ask before he chose to do this. He could boot into Win2k before hand, and after that, he got a boot device error blue screen of death.

So, I've formatted, flashed the bios, and reset everything and formatted the hd's and low level formatted the main drive and it hasn't done anything to fix the issue.

I cannot install 98 or XP. Everything I try, I get an error in conjunction to the OS. A kernal error, a ntdlr.sys error (not valid), and another error in 98. Now I'm stuck at the bios and in DOS and can't install the OS.

Any takers on this issue? I've never seen it before and am clueless as to how to go about fixing it.

Any help would be appreciated!
 
Try this before you discount it as odd or stupid... my old man had a PC Chips 810LMR, and he was running win2000 and got the EXACT same error as you. When he would try and install, it would start and then say that a certain line was invalid or corrupt or something... anyways, what had happened was that my bottom ram slot when... it wasn't the ram itself, it was the actual slot. Popped the memory out and just left the top one in, and it worked fine...

Try popping the first stick out, and installing, and then if that doesn't work try the ram in the second slot. Good luck!
 
This worked!

What I don't understand is, how did he burn up that memory by installing that disc? It's odd because the memory was fine before he did that.
 
The memory itself is probably fine. On mine it was the physical slot that was damaged, and I'm really not sure how that happened honestly.

Don't feel about about not catching it, it was the LAST thing I tried on mine, and I didn't think it would help, I was just trying out of frustration.

Glad I could help!
 
Nope, I tested the memory in both slots with the same result. Weird imo.

Thank you tho. 🙂 Another user suggest I inseat the memory also, both of you were pretty much on target. The next time I see this issue, I'll know the fix. 🙂

A Thousand Thank You's!
 
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