Hi all, I having a bit of a mare at the mo and any advice would be much appreciated...I'll try and keep it brief...
System: Athlon XP1400, 512mb ram…installed AWOpen CD drive about 6 weeks ago. Running XP..
I was playing an audio CD in windows media player yesterday when the CD suddenly froze as if playing one sample over and over, and the screen froze. I couldn’t even Ctrl,alt,dlt…
Anyway tried to reboot PC which seemed to be having trouble, then got a “CMOS check sum error” in the BIOS. I can imagine this is not a good sign.
Anyway, managed to get back into windows and got the BSOD a couple of times…
1st time: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
2nd time: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Oh, and at some point in all this I got a message in the BIOS about a corrupt file with the path \Windows\system32\config\system..Fantastic!!
Anyway, I tried reinstalling XP again over the top but it seems to be having none of it and now I can’t even boot up windows at all and get a BSOD everytime with no message.
I have a feeling that it may be something to do with the CD drive, but its been running ok for about 6 weeks
Can anyone offer any advice (yes, I’ve already checked all connections, cables, and uninstalled the drive etc)before I nuke the bleedin thing??
System: Athlon XP1400, 512mb ram…installed AWOpen CD drive about 6 weeks ago. Running XP..
I was playing an audio CD in windows media player yesterday when the CD suddenly froze as if playing one sample over and over, and the screen froze. I couldn’t even Ctrl,alt,dlt…
Anyway tried to reboot PC which seemed to be having trouble, then got a “CMOS check sum error” in the BIOS. I can imagine this is not a good sign.
Anyway, managed to get back into windows and got the BSOD a couple of times…
1st time: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
2nd time: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Oh, and at some point in all this I got a message in the BIOS about a corrupt file with the path \Windows\system32\config\system..Fantastic!!
Anyway, I tried reinstalling XP again over the top but it seems to be having none of it and now I can’t even boot up windows at all and get a BSOD everytime with no message.
I have a feeling that it may be something to do with the CD drive, but its been running ok for about 6 weeks
Can anyone offer any advice (yes, I’ve already checked all connections, cables, and uninstalled the drive etc)before I nuke the bleedin thing??