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Background - Friend has a p4 based system which had XP working fine, until he tried to reinstall windows.
Problem - He got a BSOD - unmountable boot volume when trying to reinstall
He gave to me to try and fix and thisd is a list of what I have done
Since blue screen - I am not even able to get windows xp cd to get to the menu screen.
I tried taking the HDD out putting it in another machine - worked - formatted it and reinstalled windows Xp on that machine - then moved hdd back to original machine - still nothing.
tried hdd from my computer ( with XP) and same error occurs when booting.
Most forums (including MS help) suggest recovery console, but cant actually get that far.
I put the hdd in another computer and ran RC from there
I used fixboot and fixmbr ( seperate occasions)
I even tried bootcfg
I deleted bootlog
I swapped DDR as well to check mem was not the problem
tried chksdsk and scan disk no errors
The bios settings are all correct ( as they were working before) - I have checked them , changed them and removed all non essentials.
I am completely lost as to what can be done besides getting a new motherboard. Any help is greatly appreciated as i have spent 40 hours in the last week swapping drives up and down, formatting, etc
Problem - He got a BSOD - unmountable boot volume when trying to reinstall
He gave to me to try and fix and thisd is a list of what I have done
Since blue screen - I am not even able to get windows xp cd to get to the menu screen.
I tried taking the HDD out putting it in another machine - worked - formatted it and reinstalled windows Xp on that machine - then moved hdd back to original machine - still nothing.
tried hdd from my computer ( with XP) and same error occurs when booting.
Most forums (including MS help) suggest recovery console, but cant actually get that far.
I put the hdd in another computer and ran RC from there
I used fixboot and fixmbr ( seperate occasions)
I even tried bootcfg
I deleted bootlog
I swapped DDR as well to check mem was not the problem
tried chksdsk and scan disk no errors
The bios settings are all correct ( as they were working before) - I have checked them , changed them and removed all non essentials.
I am completely lost as to what can be done besides getting a new motherboard. Any help is greatly appreciated as i have spent 40 hours in the last week swapping drives up and down, formatting, etc
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Originally Posted by topcat unknown
Background - Friend has a p4 based system which had XP working fine, until he tried to reinstall windows.
Problem - He got a BSOD - unmountable boot volume when trying to reinstall
He gave to me to try and fix and thisd is a list of what I have done
Since blue screen - I am not even able to get windows xp cd to get to the menu screen.
I tried taking the HDD out putting it in another machine - worked - formatted it and reinstalled windows Xp on that machine - then moved hdd back to original machine - still nothing.
tried hdd from my computer ( with XP) and same error occurs when booting.
Most forums (including MS help) suggest recovery console, but cant actually get that far.
I put the hdd in another computer and ran RC from there
I used fixboot and fixmbr ( seperate occasions)
I even tried bootcfg
I deleted bootlog
I swapped DDR as well to check mem was not the problem
tried chksdsk and scan disk no errors
The bios settings are all correct ( as they were working before) - I have checked them , changed them and removed all non essentials.
I am completely lost as to what can be done besides getting a new motherboard. Any help is greatly appreciated as i have spent 40 hours in the last week swapping drives up and down, formatting, etc
Is this a SATA drive? If so, the motherboard might have SATA RAID mode turned on. If you only have a single drive, turn off RAID mode -- then you won't need additional driver to get XP installed.
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Thanks Chanto
the error is correct
I have also received the error
"inaccessible boot device" which comes up on another blue screen when trying to install XP or W2K.
The drive is not RAID ed or SATA
I would like to try what you mentioned but what is/how do i create a driver floppy ( what drivers am I looking for) where do i get them from.
the error is correct
I have also received the error
"inaccessible boot device" which comes up on another blue screen when trying to install XP or W2K.
The drive is not RAID ed or SATA
I would like to try what you mentioned but what is/how do i create a driver floppy ( what drivers am I looking for) where do i get them from.
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Originally Posted by topcat unknown
Thanks Chanto
the error is correct
I have also received the error
"inaccessible boot device" which comes up on another blue screen when trying to install XP or W2K.
The drive is not RAID ed or SATA
I would like to try what you mentioned but what is/how do i create a driver floppy ( what drivers am I looking for) where do i get them from.
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Originally Posted by topcat unknown
Background - Friend has a p4 based system which had XP working fine, until he tried to reinstall windows. Problem - He got a BSOD - unmountable boot volume when trying to reinstall. Since blue screen - I am not even able to get windows xp cd to get to the menu screen.
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Hi Chanto, yes the drive is basic IDE and the MB is Gigabyte GA-8GEM667K. I checked the giga website but there is no driver for hdd controllers ( I found vga etc). It is intel chipset and the drive is ata 100 with 80 wire cable( tried 40 aswell just to see what happened). But i was able to find a bios update.
If what tallcool1 was saying works then i can I am happy to try that as the mother board provides Q Flash which allows me to upgrade the bios without going into the os.
Hi Tallcool1 - thanks for the info - I would like to trey what you suggested but the only jumper i was able to find was a password clear jumper. Do you think a bios update would have the same effect ( remove corruopt bios).
As for hardware the hdd works on another pc - just plugged it straight in - I also tried removing all non essentials to reduce conflict and changed the ram stick ( Kingston 512)
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8GEM667K - can anyone confirm whether it has a cmos reset jumper
If what tallcool1 was saying works then i can I am happy to try that as the mother board provides Q Flash which allows me to upgrade the bios without going into the os.
Hi Tallcool1 - thanks for the info - I would like to trey what you suggested but the only jumper i was able to find was a password clear jumper. Do you think a bios update would have the same effect ( remove corruopt bios).
As for hardware the hdd works on another pc - just plugged it straight in - I also tried removing all non essentials to reduce conflict and changed the ram stick ( Kingston 512)
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8GEM667K - can anyone confirm whether it has a cmos reset jumper
unplug and remove the cmos battery for atleast 2min and then reinstall the batt. boot up and follow the rest of tallcool1's sugestions.
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Thanks BSM,
I pulled the battery out once before but i didn't wait thinking it would be reset straight away. I have pulled it out now and am waiting - another forum suggested 15min to 60 min depending on MB. I couldn't care how long it takes i just want it fixed.
I'll post back and let you know how it goes
I pulled the battery out once before but i didn't wait thinking it would be reset straight away. I have pulled it out now and am waiting - another forum suggested 15min to 60 min depending on MB. I couldn't care how long it takes i just want it fixed.
I'll post back and let you know how it goes
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Originally Posted by topcat unknown
Thanks BSM,
I pulled the battery out once before but i didn't wait thinking it would be reset straight away. I have pulled it out now and am waiting - another forum suggested 15min to 60 min depending on MB. I couldn't care how long it takes i just want it fixed.
I'll post back and let you know how it goes
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;297185
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Doh!No Luck - it must be cursed.
Tried the battery thing and the "cmos error" came up - continued with hdd that has XP on it and same stop screen. Rebooted with CD and gets to "Starting windows setup" screen and BSOD.
Also downloaded the bios update from the MB website and updated it and BSOD. Can't f' n beleive it.
Thanks for that chanto - but that is where i got most of my original info from - load of crap wasted a whole week going through those solutions. Still haven't been able to try the mass storage driver thing that you were talking about as there is no HDD driver on the giga website. There is Intel chipset drivers - INF and IIA ( i think ) but i dont know what they are.
I got a option menu at one stage which gave me safe mode options etc. I selected safe mode and it shows the drivers as they are loading - it gets to mup.sys and that is when the bsod comes up - dont know if it is mup.sys or the next driver making it crash.
Any new ideas will save me from throwing this computer into a wall
Tried the battery thing and the "cmos error" came up - continued with hdd that has XP on it and same stop screen. Rebooted with CD and gets to "Starting windows setup" screen and BSOD.
Also downloaded the bios update from the MB website and updated it and BSOD. Can't f' n beleive it.
Thanks for that chanto - but that is where i got most of my original info from - load of crap wasted a whole week going through those solutions. Still haven't been able to try the mass storage driver thing that you were talking about as there is no HDD driver on the giga website. There is Intel chipset drivers - INF and IIA ( i think ) but i dont know what they are.
I got a option menu at one stage which gave me safe mode options etc. I selected safe mode and it shows the drivers as they are loading - it gets to mup.sys and that is when the bsod comes up - dont know if it is mup.sys or the next driver making it crash.
Any new ideas will save me from throwing this computer into a wall
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