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[mjbailey21 10+ year member]

Friend called me up with an interesting question. His desktop PC randomly stopped working! I went to talk a look at it and I have no solution. When it boots up, it stays at the Abit motherboard logo. When I press tab to see POST, it just has the memory running up. After good while, it tries to boot up. There it stops at "Update Succesful" where it says that before the XP logo normally comes up.

I cleared CMOS and it does the same thing.

When I try to repair with my XP disks, it says it cannot find a harddrive.

Is my HD dead?

Thanks!

Matt

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[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

does it go through the BIOS ? have you tried updating/flashing the BIOS ?

 

[bizflawless 5,000+ posts]

what he said ^, sounds like its corrupted, im thinking your gonna have to find a way to reinstall windows on it

 

[soul05 10+ year member]

maybe a bad sector in the harddrive. i had a similar problem once, eventually i copied all my files onto another harddrive using ms dos and reinstalled winxp

 

[mjbailey21 10+ year member]

I don't think its having a hard time in the bios. It just freezes up when it tries to locate the HD, it appears.

 

[mjbailey21 10+ year member]

bump?

I am just trying to reformat now. When I change the boot sequence, and reboot to get to the xp setup screen, it asks to repair or continue installation and if i choose either it tell me setup must be exited because no hard drive was found.

Whats the other way I can go about reformatting?

 

[bizflawless 5,000+ posts]

bump?
I am just trying to reformat now. When I change the boot sequence, and reboot to get to the xp setup screen, it asks to repair or continue installation and if i choose either it tell me setup must be exited because no hard drive was found.

Whats the other way I can go about reformatting?

do what your doing...reformat it, only way to problem solved, its corrupted //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[mjbailey21 10+ year member]

I am trying to reformat.

Like I said, when I get to Windows Setup to reformat, it tells me to quit setup becauce no hard drive was found.

 

[bizflawless 5,000+ posts]

well Im out, Good Luck w/ the comp...hope it all goes well fo u & ur friend //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[bizflawless 5,000+ posts]

I am trying to reformat.
Like I said, when I get to Windows Setup to reformat, it tells me to quit setup becauce no hard drive was found.

hmmmm, go into bios and check the harddrive status...g2g sorry i couldnt help much, im sure someone else will jump in here in a lil

 

[photocrazy8 10+ year member]

bad data cluster or maybe the registry got messed with...

 

[phildapimp89 10+ year member]

Whatever happened to trial and error Throw in another hard drive and see if it works.

 

[bizzy07 10+ year member]

take the non-working hard drive and hook it up to another computer as a slave drive if you have another computer and format it in windows

 

[mjbailey21 10+ year member]

Stuck a brand new maxtor 200gb HD to it and it did the same darn thing!

 

[bizflawless 5,000+ posts]

try ur luck in this forum section.............http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=12

post it there u should b able to get an answer or search around