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Andrew Bestfrenn
I am cobbling together a system consisting of an 8 gig hd formatted
with winxp,
a 750 K6 processor, asus a7 motherboard, 128 meg RAM
When I turn it on I get the following message:
--
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start
successfully. A recent hardware or software change might
have caused this.
If startup was interrupted due to power failure, or because the power
or reset button was pressed, or if you are not sure what caused the
problem, choose Start Windows Normally (from the list below):
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt
Last Known Good Configuration
Start Windows Normally
---
None of the above listed options will work.
All thre Safe Mode options take me into a dead list of files and
nothing happens.
Last Known Good Configuration takes me to a blank black screen and
nothing
happens.
Start Windows Normally just freezes the screen in place and nothing
happens.
Initially the problem was that I had the wrong type of cable connected
to the
hard drive, so I solved that. Then I noticed that the blue end was at
the wrong end. Now, everything seems to be in place , the hard drive
sounds like
it is on , making a faint whirring sound, but not doing anything else
or making any other sound. It has some jumper swithes on the back,
and right
now there is a white square plastic clip over the two pins labelled
CS,
and nothing on the other pins lableled master, slave, and pw2.
I tried moving the clip onto the two pins labeled 'master' but it did
not work. I got a message saying 'please insert system disk'
If anyone has any idea what is going on, please let me know.
with winxp,
a 750 K6 processor, asus a7 motherboard, 128 meg RAM
When I turn it on I get the following message:
--
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start
successfully. A recent hardware or software change might
have caused this.
If startup was interrupted due to power failure, or because the power
or reset button was pressed, or if you are not sure what caused the
problem, choose Start Windows Normally (from the list below):
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt
Last Known Good Configuration
Start Windows Normally
---
None of the above listed options will work.
All thre Safe Mode options take me into a dead list of files and
nothing happens.
Last Known Good Configuration takes me to a blank black screen and
nothing
happens.
Start Windows Normally just freezes the screen in place and nothing
happens.
Initially the problem was that I had the wrong type of cable connected
to the
hard drive, so I solved that. Then I noticed that the blue end was at
the wrong end. Now, everything seems to be in place , the hard drive
sounds like
it is on , making a faint whirring sound, but not doing anything else
or making any other sound. It has some jumper swithes on the back,
and right
now there is a white square plastic clip over the two pins labelled
CS,
and nothing on the other pins lableled master, slave, and pw2.
I tried moving the clip onto the two pins labeled 'master' but it did
not work. I got a message saying 'please insert system disk'
If anyone has any idea what is going on, please let me know.