XP Won't boot

a1strank

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When I got home today I saw my computer is "near-freezing" (Mouse can move but clicking anything won't work) after couple minutes later of random-clicking my comp rebooting. I thought it was just a regular computer crash..but after it rebooted it won't boot up anymore. After "detecting IDE deveices" the monitor goes black. Bascailly the comp won't make it to the boot screen and it crashes when it is about going to the windows boot screen. Ok so I thought this would be fixed by booting into safe mode and mess around with it..but I was wrong..I couldn't boot into safe mode (the screen freezes up after I HIT ENTER to boot to safe mode). Basically it won't boot to anything..I tried last known config..etc..everything. The furthest my comp can make is to the screen where you can select safe mode etc..

After this I tried booting with Windows XP CD..it will not work..I can hit F6 to the "Windows Automated System Recovery" but I DO NOT have the disc. The computer crashes and gives me BSOD if I let it continue to load System Files. I tried booting with Norton Ghost I get the same BSOD. The code is 0x0000007b.

I tried resetting BIOS and it doesn't work. I also tried flashing bios but it won't let me flash for some reason..I get some error code like "chipset/flash part isn't avaliable" and I did followed the instructions. (I usually flash it in Windows, but now I can't even get to windows).

I also tried booting some HDD recovery utlities but it would not boot for some reason..the screen just goes black. Need help!!! PLEASE sad.gif

Also tried booting the xp cd without any HDD hooked up to my pc...still BSOD

also tried these:

1. Hooked up my HD to his comp and BOOT MY DRIVE, won't boot up.
2. Hooked up my HD to his comp and BOOT HIS DRIVE, won't boot (If i take out my drive from his comp it boots up fine)
3. Hooked up HIS drive to MY COMP, BOOTS UP FINE
4. Booting the XP CD with HIS COMP while having my drive hooked up to his comp, boots up fine and doing CHKDSK now with the recovery console (Takes LONG TIME)
5. BOtting the XP CD with MY COMP and with HIS DRIVE hooked up to MY comp (without my HDD) BSOD (Obviously there is something wrong with my comp, I am thinking about motherboard, because i get BSOD with HIS drive)
 

a1strank

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Originally posted by: anobium
looks like you need to fromat hardrive fresh install.

format won't work because i've tried putting a new drive on my systme I still couldn't boot with the xp cd
 

ForumMaster

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looks like your hdd is dead. hope you have a backup. if the drive is dead, it also causes problems for the computer. you might try freezing the drive as i have heard that i can sometime give you back another ~30 minutes of uptime to try and backup your stuff. google it. time to buy a new drive anyway.
 

thegorx

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wow .... I hear ya
you might try looking at your motherboard for bad capacitors
or maybe your bios got messed up bad
I had one motherboard that started resetting bios setting to default over and over then just stopped working all together

I'd suspect the motherboard too, so you might want to look into that specifically