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WIN XP crashes and ceases to cooperate anymore

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pdqcarrera

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I built my new computer a few months back with WIN XP-SP1 and haven't been using it much, waiting to install a Network system to link with my two other computers. Today I booted up and it crashed within a few minutes and won't let me reboot back. No reboot to previous successful config, no recovery, no safe mode, no command prompt, nada.

I cannot even reload WIN XP, as it can't see my hard drives. Yes, I did the F6 to load a third-party driver thing. Both drives still show just fine when the bios boots up. I even tried DrDos7 and it showed me the drives and partitians are still there.

I'm totally stuped and sure would appreciate advice.

BTW - this computer has never been on the internet, no e-mail so no chance for a virus attack unless some of the files I've been copying were infected but everything I've done has Virus protection and firewall and never had a virus yet.



Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe
Intel Pentium 4 2.8CGHZ
2x OCZ PC3700 Gold Rev.2 512MB DIMMs
2x Seagate 120GB (ST3120026AS) 7200 8MB SATA HD
MSI FX5900XT 128MB
Thermaltake XASER III V2420AU Super Tower with 420 PS
 
This may sond elementary, but make sure the hdd is detected in the bios and properly configured. Maybe the cmos battery is dead and you've lost all the date in cmos. If that does not help, disconnect the hdd one at a time and make sure the jumpers are set right. And then try re-installing with only one hdd connected. Good luck.😎
 
Thanks for the response.

It turns out that there are two SATA controllers on the ASUS P4S800D-E deluxe mobo that are individually bios enabled and that I errantly had both enabled although both drives are connected to the first controller and nothing on the second. When booting, the bios would first find the drives and then as it boot thru the 2nd controller it would find nothing and then, ignoring the fact it found a pair on the first controller, it would act as if there were no drives at all. I disabled the controller and voila' it booted.

Unfortunately my WIN XP problem wasn't so easily solved and I had to reformat the c: partitian and reload the OS and all my apps. ARGH!!

Cheers,
Ross
 
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