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Hi,
I have a Pentium IV PC with a GB of RAM and two 80 GB SATA Quantum
disks installed, running XP Pro SP2. On Sunday it developed a fault
where it hangs when attempting to boot into XP.
I have booted from the XP CD and gone into the Recovery Console. From
here I ran FIXMBR and then exited the console. Bingo! XP then ran up
perfectly and everything seemed to work fine. Problem solved I
thought. But no, the same fault manifested at the next power-up. In
short, the PC hangs every time it is powered up. Running either
FIXMBR or FIXBOOT from the Recovery Console "fixes" it but the fault
reappears after every power-down.
Anyone any idea what might be going on? I ran the AVG anti-virus scan
routine but this returned no infections.
Any thoughts on this would be very gratefully received!
Regards,
Tim Kearsley
I have a Pentium IV PC with a GB of RAM and two 80 GB SATA Quantum
disks installed, running XP Pro SP2. On Sunday it developed a fault
where it hangs when attempting to boot into XP.
I have booted from the XP CD and gone into the Recovery Console. From
here I ran FIXMBR and then exited the console. Bingo! XP then ran up
perfectly and everything seemed to work fine. Problem solved I
thought. But no, the same fault manifested at the next power-up. In
short, the PC hangs every time it is powered up. Running either
FIXMBR or FIXBOOT from the Recovery Console "fixes" it but the fault
reappears after every power-down.
Anyone any idea what might be going on? I ran the AVG anti-virus scan
routine but this returned no infections.
Any thoughts on this would be very gratefully received!
Regards,
Tim Kearsley