Hello all,

I'm having a boot up problem that I don't even know how to begin to tackle.
The computer is working fine. I have not done any hardware/software/driver
changes since I setup the system a couple of months ago. The motherboard is
Asus. M2N-SLI.

Symptom: Turn the power ON, POST fine, I get to the windows boot up screen
with window logo, stays there for normal amout of time, then the screen
completely turns black and hangs. I can not even boot into safe mode.

On Saturday, I used the computer in the morning, went out for lunch, when I
came back, I saw a message I remember saying "Disk boot failure: insert
system disk and press enter". After restarting the computer and going into
BIOS, I found that all of my SATA drives had dissappeared. After opening the
box to make sure all connections were tight, I restarted the computer. My
SATA devices came back, but I now get a black screen after the boot up screen
with WinXP logo. Due to the fact that all my SATA drives just disappeared, I
have the feeling that this might be related to motherboard, but I don't know
if a mobo could just die without any warning.

I had not reinstall/repair using the winxp cd, for I did not have the chance
to make any backup copies of the files on my hard drive.

I would really appriciate if someone could offer me some troubleshooting
tips on this bizzare problem.

Replied to [Mo Zhang]'s message {REPLY BELOW} :
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> Turn the power ON, POST fine, I get to the windows boot up
> screen with window logo, stays there for normal amout of time, then
> the screen completely turns black and hangs. I can not even boot into
> safe mode.
>

I don't have a solution but just want to tell you that the same thing
happened to me a month ago. I tried the whole day to boot the Computer but
was unsuccessful and the next day, it booted with a chkdsk screen and my pc
is running fine till now

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Mo Zhang wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a boot up problem that I don't even know how to begin to tackle.
> The computer is working fine. I have not done any hardware/software/driver
> changes since I setup the system a couple of months ago. The motherboard is
> Asus. M2N-SLI.
>
> Symptom: Turn the power ON, POST fine, I get to the windows boot up screen
> with window logo, stays there for normal amout of time, then the screen
> completely turns black and hangs. I can not even boot into safe mode.
>
That is the part of the boot sequence where it is looking for drivers
for the hardware it has detected. Try disconnecting all peripherals
and pull all cards except memory & video card, then you should get a
clean boot. Then start reconnecting cards & peripherals one at a time,
booting up after each one until you see which one is causing the hangup.