PC won't reboot.

botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited September 2004 in Hardware
Hi guys, I seem to be having a day of it. I've been working on the kids PC all day and that is fine. I've also been on mine throughout the day and there's been no problem with that at all untill just now. I noticed my E drive and both optical drives were missing from windows explorer, I've had this before and a reboot normally gets them back. I restarted the PC, it beeps and the very first screen comes up, CPU, Memory test etc, the last line says detecting IDE drives and it sits there doing nothing. The hard drive light is on from the instant you press the power button. Pressing the reset button just goes through the same process. I've checked cables and reset the bios, no change. Help guys, what do I do now?
Thanks.

Comments

  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    I've been trying again in the last few minutes. A couple of times it has detected the drives then said CMOS checksum error?
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    After clearing the bios again it booted. I went into soft menu and set the CPU speed. It boots but extremely slow. After I got it all up I ran a virus check. It was only a short way through and a blue 'critical error' screen came up that said PFN_LIST_ CORRUPT. What does that mean? I rebooted again and got 'boot disc failure' I'm rebooting again and it's checking the file system, again. Help me out guys,
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2004
    Might want to try memtest (in our downloads section). According to this it may also be a driver out of whack making a call to your memory which it shouldn't.

    Try resetting the BIOS again and make sure the "Force update to ESCD" is checked. If you can get into Safe Mode you might want to try blowing out your drivers by uninstalling all the hardware you can and let Windows have another try at it.

    Good Luck! :)
  • pokesquid808pokesquid808 SO CAL
    edited September 2004
    i had that problem before, i unplugged everything and started with just my boot drive. if it boots then you just keep adding one at a time. i don't remember what my blue screen said though, do what profdlp said first. if nothings comes up as a problem then just unplug everything and do it one at a time.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    It's now booting though very slow. Did as prof said, ESCD. If I look around device manager I can't get any properties for the optical drives. I'm just runnig a full virus check then I'll uninstall the opticals one at a time and report back.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    I now have properties for everything and it looks ok. I think prof was right, dodgy driver.
    Thanks guys, I think it's sorted.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    It did it again this morning. I know what it is now though, it's my philips CDRW. I disconnected it and everything is ok. I'm wondering if I should get a DVD writer as a replacement, though I can't see me ever burning a DVD, is there any advantage?
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    larger capacity. even if you don't use them for DVD you can put a lot of data on one.
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