C
Chicagorush
I have probably one of the weirdest problems ever. For one let me start
out by telling you what happened before I got this issue.
I was updating my bios settings which didn't work cause it failed on
me. I was updating my graphics driver had to restart the computer like
it said to do. Restarted it. Came up to the "loading windows xp" screen
and then it restarted on its own. Kept doing that over and over finally
I restarted it manually and tried to reconfigure that I might have
overclocked the graphics card a little too much. So I restarted it to
see if i can revert the graphics card back. Didn't work.
Next thing i know. I get the error saying "Error loading OS". Found out
my hard drive doesn't read the C: drive anymore. Couldn't get into
windows or anything. Tried going into the recovery console nothing..
Tried reformatting. Reformatting didn't even work. Ordered another hard
drive. Can't install windows cause the CD comes up to about 34% and
says cannot find file....I keep pressing esc for about 10 files and
still keeps doing the same thing. I can't install windows xp, can't
load up anything besides bios. Manually updated the bios off my laptop
using floppy drives. Can't format the old hard drive. I took out one of
my memory sticks like i saw in another post and cleaned the cd and
still nothing. Is there any way to fix this without buying another
windows xp cd? What can i do? I've been up for about 24 hours trying to
recover this problem. I've gone through almost everything from creating
a MS-DOS start up disk to trying to reformat the hard drive and
updating the bios software. Nothing...This is something that has been
bugging me. I hate being on my laptop which is how i'm trying to solve
something. I've gone to microsoft with being on the phone with them to
asus which is my board manufacture.
Here are my specs:
Asus A8N-SLI motherboard
(2) XFX Nvidia GeForce 7600GT graphics cards.
1GB memory.
(3) SATA HD's (1) 250gb Western digital (which is the main hd that went
down) (2) Maxtor 300gb
(2) CD-Rom drives (1) Memorex cd-rom/burner (1) DVD-Rom/Burner
(1) Floppy Drive
IF anyone can help me out that would be greatly appriciated because i'm
running out of solutions in my head. I have my roommate right now
downloading windows xp pro for me since i already have a cdkey i just
need to see if a new burned disc would work. I'm not sure if it will or
not. If it doesn't i'm out of answer unless i take my hard drive and
put it on his computer or take his hard drive put it on my computer
start it up and then copy install files over to my hard drive. I'm
running out of solutions and would really appriciate the help.
out by telling you what happened before I got this issue.
I was updating my bios settings which didn't work cause it failed on
me. I was updating my graphics driver had to restart the computer like
it said to do. Restarted it. Came up to the "loading windows xp" screen
and then it restarted on its own. Kept doing that over and over finally
I restarted it manually and tried to reconfigure that I might have
overclocked the graphics card a little too much. So I restarted it to
see if i can revert the graphics card back. Didn't work.
Next thing i know. I get the error saying "Error loading OS". Found out
my hard drive doesn't read the C: drive anymore. Couldn't get into
windows or anything. Tried going into the recovery console nothing..
Tried reformatting. Reformatting didn't even work. Ordered another hard
drive. Can't install windows cause the CD comes up to about 34% and
says cannot find file....I keep pressing esc for about 10 files and
still keeps doing the same thing. I can't install windows xp, can't
load up anything besides bios. Manually updated the bios off my laptop
using floppy drives. Can't format the old hard drive. I took out one of
my memory sticks like i saw in another post and cleaned the cd and
still nothing. Is there any way to fix this without buying another
windows xp cd? What can i do? I've been up for about 24 hours trying to
recover this problem. I've gone through almost everything from creating
a MS-DOS start up disk to trying to reformat the hard drive and
updating the bios software. Nothing...This is something that has been
bugging me. I hate being on my laptop which is how i'm trying to solve
something. I've gone to microsoft with being on the phone with them to
asus which is my board manufacture.
Here are my specs:
Asus A8N-SLI motherboard
(2) XFX Nvidia GeForce 7600GT graphics cards.
1GB memory.
(3) SATA HD's (1) 250gb Western digital (which is the main hd that went
down) (2) Maxtor 300gb
(2) CD-Rom drives (1) Memorex cd-rom/burner (1) DVD-Rom/Burner
(1) Floppy Drive
IF anyone can help me out that would be greatly appriciated because i'm
running out of solutions in my head. I have my roommate right now
downloading windows xp pro for me since i already have a cdkey i just
need to see if a new burned disc would work. I'm not sure if it will or
not. If it doesn't i'm out of answer unless i take my hard drive and
put it on his computer or take his hard drive put it on my computer
start it up and then copy install files over to my hard drive. I'm
running out of solutions and would really appriciate the help.