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Mattias Liljenzin
This problem occured to me some days ago, i had upgraded my old Asus
k7n2-delta mobo w/ an amd athlon 2600+, to a brand new Asus K8N SE Deluxe w/
an amd athlon 64 2800+! With this, i have 2x 512 PC3200 400mhz RAMs, a MSI
gf4-ti4200 128ram gfx & 2 IBM HDD's (120/60gb). The installation went fine,
i formatted the partion which i had my old OS on, to Win Xp SP2. After
installing the necessarities of drivers, antivirus & misc stuff, i start
playing the game Neverwinter Nights, and after a few hours i decide to do
something else. So i press the menu and chooses "Exit Game" - the screen
turns black. Abit suprised, i reboot and windows seems to be booting up
normal again. But about 1-2 seconds before i expect the loginscreen to turn
up, the Num Lock-, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock all three simultaneously
flashes once, just as they use to act when u do a restart, and the screen
goes blank again.
I should add that i had some problems in Partion Magic 8, before this
problem occured. I was trying to change the drive letters of some secondary
partions, but it didnt seem to work, and when i rebooted something that
looked like the Scandisk UI showed up, telling me that something couldnt be
runned(i guess it had to do with the partioning) - i really cant remember,
except that it seemed to be just an information note - not a warning or a
bad error. And a few times when i was overclocking and used the Turbo
performance-setting, i got the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Bsod, but it
disappeared when i turned back the settings(just for the record, i have
tried diffirent cables for the 40/80-pin issue).
Since then, ive been trying to correct this problem by formatting and
re-partioning my HD. Also reinstalling win xp, win xp 64 and win 2000 - but
the moment the "Setup is loading windows"(after have been loading plenty of
drivers) shows up, the screen frozes. When im trying to install Linux, it
too freeze after processing some lines, but ends with something like this:
"compressed image found at block 0, VFS: Unable to mount root - use
fsck/e2fsck, freeing memory..." - and the an icecold freeze by the computer.
The confusing part to me, is that i get the exact same errors with and
without my HDD connected! I've also tried booting from a diffirent
CD-ROM(the device, not disc), but the problem still remains the same.
Other things i have been trying with:
*Flashing bios to the version that came along on the CD from vendor.
*Diffirent settings in BIOS, no overclocking, ACPI-adjustments, HD-settings,
disabled on-board devices etc.
*Memtest, 2 diffirent compatible types of memory-sticks (its quite strange
though, that all DOS-based programs are still working, but not the
windows/linux stuffs. 16 bit vs 32bit? Im almost crying since the processor
i bought is 64-bit
*Doing these steps with only the mobo, cd-rom, 256-ram module(tried
diffirent modules aswell), CPU and Videocard.
Thats the troubleshooting ive tried so far, the only thing left i could
possible think of, is hardware-failure of the mobo or CPU - but as the
computer ran just fine, except for the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME(tried
googling it in all possible combos, but i didnt find anyone who had the
symptoms like me), it would be weird if it just.. broke like that. Im trying
my last shot here, before i use my warranty at the vendor.
Please help me solve this, im going nuts
k7n2-delta mobo w/ an amd athlon 2600+, to a brand new Asus K8N SE Deluxe w/
an amd athlon 64 2800+! With this, i have 2x 512 PC3200 400mhz RAMs, a MSI
gf4-ti4200 128ram gfx & 2 IBM HDD's (120/60gb). The installation went fine,
i formatted the partion which i had my old OS on, to Win Xp SP2. After
installing the necessarities of drivers, antivirus & misc stuff, i start
playing the game Neverwinter Nights, and after a few hours i decide to do
something else. So i press the menu and chooses "Exit Game" - the screen
turns black. Abit suprised, i reboot and windows seems to be booting up
normal again. But about 1-2 seconds before i expect the loginscreen to turn
up, the Num Lock-, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock all three simultaneously
flashes once, just as they use to act when u do a restart, and the screen
goes blank again.
I should add that i had some problems in Partion Magic 8, before this
problem occured. I was trying to change the drive letters of some secondary
partions, but it didnt seem to work, and when i rebooted something that
looked like the Scandisk UI showed up, telling me that something couldnt be
runned(i guess it had to do with the partioning) - i really cant remember,
except that it seemed to be just an information note - not a warning or a
bad error. And a few times when i was overclocking and used the Turbo
performance-setting, i got the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Bsod, but it
disappeared when i turned back the settings(just for the record, i have
tried diffirent cables for the 40/80-pin issue).
Since then, ive been trying to correct this problem by formatting and
re-partioning my HD. Also reinstalling win xp, win xp 64 and win 2000 - but
the moment the "Setup is loading windows"(after have been loading plenty of
drivers) shows up, the screen frozes. When im trying to install Linux, it
too freeze after processing some lines, but ends with something like this:
"compressed image found at block 0, VFS: Unable to mount root - use
fsck/e2fsck, freeing memory..." - and the an icecold freeze by the computer.
The confusing part to me, is that i get the exact same errors with and
without my HDD connected! I've also tried booting from a diffirent
CD-ROM(the device, not disc), but the problem still remains the same.
Other things i have been trying with:
*Flashing bios to the version that came along on the CD from vendor.
*Diffirent settings in BIOS, no overclocking, ACPI-adjustments, HD-settings,
disabled on-board devices etc.
*Memtest, 2 diffirent compatible types of memory-sticks (its quite strange
though, that all DOS-based programs are still working, but not the
windows/linux stuffs. 16 bit vs 32bit? Im almost crying since the processor
i bought is 64-bit
*Doing these steps with only the mobo, cd-rom, 256-ram module(tried
diffirent modules aswell), CPU and Videocard.
Thats the troubleshooting ive tried so far, the only thing left i could
possible think of, is hardware-failure of the mobo or CPU - but as the
computer ran just fine, except for the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME(tried
googling it in all possible combos, but i didnt find anyone who had the
symptoms like me), it would be weird if it just.. broke like that. Im trying
my last shot here, before i use my warranty at the vendor.
Please help me solve this, im going nuts