How to do system recovery?

[michelle2785]

Our other computer is on the fritz. It was pieced together by
cyberpowerpc.com and now its going through crash cycles. The only problem is
- theres no option to do system recovery. It sometimes gives us an option to
start in safe mode, but when it tries to do that it just stops at mup.sys.

nothing is working. How do we do system recovery? pressing F10 anywhere in
the process of starting up and crashing is not working.

motherboard: NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Dual Core
processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2
2 NVIDIA gforce 7800 video cards
Ram: 2gb of "Buffalo Select" 2Rx8 DDR2 SD Ram
XP Home edition
"Cooler Master" 600watt power supply
"Maxter Diamondmax 20" 80GB SATA HDD

 

[Xandros]

If the system is still under warranty contact the seller. Or try a Repair
Install using the same version of XP that is currently installed on your
system http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Our other computer is on the fritz. It was pieced together by
cyberpowerpc.com and now its going through crash cycles. The only problem
is
- theres no option to do system recovery. It sometimes gives us an option
to
start in safe mode, but when it tries to do that it just stops at mup.sys.

nothing is working. How do we do system recovery? pressing F10 anywhere in
the process of starting up and crashing is not working.

motherboard: NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Dual Core
processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2
2 NVIDIA gforce 7800 video cards
Ram: 2gb of "Buffalo Select" 2Rx8 DDR2 SD Ram
XP Home edition
"Cooler Master" 600watt power supply
"Maxter Diamondmax 20" 80GB SATA HDD

"System recovery" is a convenience feature used by some manufacturers who
create large numbers of systems from images, and don't want to support users
through an XP and driver install.

Not all systems have it, some people don't want it as it typically does not
allow things like repair installs or the recovery console.

If you didn't get System Recovery disks, if there is no partition for this -
and supplying the recovery files only on the hard disk is a spectactularly
bad idea - then you don't have it.

You should in that case have an XP install CD, and some disks for drivers.
If you don't, you have a problem.

If you lost them, see if you can find them, if you didn't get them, contact
the seller, who is required to provide a reinstall method.

Look on the back of the case for a COA key, and find a utility like the
Magic Jellybean or Belarc Advisor to read the XP install key that was used.

From there, you are looking for an XP Home CD in either OEM or retail
version. If the keys don't work with either, you may need to purchase a
new license.

It's a really good idea to save off the Belarc report so that you can tell
just what drivers were used.

Also, it's a good idea to download and burn to CD XP SP3.

Install XP first, then the motherboard chipset drivers, then drivers for
things like network, video, USB, sound, and anything else.

Then install SP3, then your anti-virus programs. At this point, you can go
online to get the rest of the updates, and then start installing the stuff
you need.

HTH
-pk