Very Bad Boot Prob
Ok i brought my com to a friends house to hook up to tv through svideo. We hooked it up and i got no signal on tv, so i thought oh vid card settings. I went and hooked my com up to his monitor and turned it all on. My com would get all the way to the Windows loading with the blue moving bar....after awhile it would flash a little blue and then it would restart and go in this cycle. So after many ideas i completely wiped my computer and it started in normal at first....i then installed my vid card drivers, sound drivers, and direct x. Then i restarted for the second time and the same boot thing happened. So i went back and booted from last good config....still jus rebooted. The only way i can start my computer is in Safe Mode. At first i was thinking my vid card....bu the First time i started it up after wipe i could enter the video card properties so i dont kno if that is my problem anymore, and my com reads my hd good. This makes no sense because it all worked a matter of 5 hours ago. Any ideas are GREATLY appreciated.
Specs: Amd 3000, 1024 ddr 2700, geforce fx5700, Soyo Dragron 2, 120 Western Digital, and dvd read/burn drive.
Specs: Amd 3000, 1024 ddr 2700, geforce fx5700, Soyo Dragron 2, 120 Western Digital, and dvd read/burn drive.
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I'd then try a different driver version. Later ones, if they are available, but earlier drivers if you have to.
Good Luck.
Any explanation greatly appreciated. ps my com is nicknamed the antichrist and it can back up its name, lol.
We are a stubborn bunch. If that doesn't get it we'll move on to something else.
Hang in. :thumbup
UPDATE: Ok the blue screen came up when i restarted and it said the error was caused by : Umountable Boot Volume
no idea wat that means will try the driver cleaning tool tomm morning....jus thought i would add this incase it helped any of ya.
im not actually sure what cause it to do it but who knows ive had 2 hdds eva since and not had a prob
and by the way the unmountable boot info is very common
well mine done that but then i fixed it and it went fine by getting another hardive ...so thats what i would suggest and it only ever seem to do it when my hdd was near full
There is nothing in a unmountable boot volume that needs a format to fix either. EVER if the harddisk is sound. And yours is. You might want to make sure the bios has smart enabled also though.
When you do chkdsk are you doing it in safe mode or from recovery console? Try it from recovery console or a ERD boot disk or cdrom.
When you say you checked the disk/cdrom cables etc... Did you check both ends? Try reseating the video card and make sure its ALL THE WAY IN. If you have any other cards remove them for now.
It sounds like it got screwed up after the initial move with maybe a card that wasnt seated properly. When you reboot it or it rebooted itself because it couldnt read from all the devices properly and barfed on the device re-install your trashing the filesystem and it needs cleaned. You need to get rid of extra devices for now like any add-in cards. Even disable sound and LAN in the bios if its there and just get the filesystem cleaned and booted into XP and then we can clean up the rest.
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Could i have messed anything up dealing with my vid card by trying to hook it up svideo without messing with the vid card properties first. Becuase everything worked fine till we got it there and tried svideo. Maybe something was wrong before the svideo but i jus figured i would check.
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so i went and ran my chkdsk /r....rebooted got my unmountable problem, so i did a repair install and am still gettin the unmountable prob.
Now i have just lost my access to safe mode, LOL. Well i am running chkdsk again to gain acces back into safe mode hopefully.
OK even after a full reformat i still recieve the unmountable boot error.
Well now we can officially rule out Hard Drive. I found the Maxtor Diagnostics tool and the hard drive passed with flying colors. So theres some positive news for once.
Alright Update time....As of right now i am unable to partition my hard drive. Memtest passed and so did my hard drive. I am basically out of ideas.
Can you partition and format the hard drive on another mobo? I think that would be next step in checking things out. If the hard drive will partition and format on another mobo, then I would say that it pretty well pinpoints your Soyo mobo as the problem.
Hey jus an idea....but i do have a working semi old p3 system running (the one im on now) and i was wondering if it would it help if i tried to install windows on my older p3 machine and then put the hd back into my soyo mobo and see if that works. I DO have my old hp board but that be a last, cuz it would suck to move everything in and out.
It ended up being my soyo kt880 mobo. I put in my old hp one an everything worked fine. Thank you all for your help...soyo will be hearing from me. Thank you.
Well one more slight prob. I finally got the mobo out of the hp case and into my other case and when i was done hooking it up i realized i get NO power to anything inside the case. no fans or anything. But it does have a green light on back. I was wondering it has two plugs and i kno i put two plugs from the ps into the mobo. One is like a sqaure and one is the big rectangle one. I jus cant find where to put the square one on this mobo. If anyone can help me bout hooking ps up to an hp computer model a330n i would be very appreciative
Ok i found out the ps was good....but now i am trying to hook up the power on button to the mobo for which i have no manual, lol. But hey this is nothing compared to recent probs.
Here's Why: Some HP PSUs are CUSTOM WIRED and will not burn out custom wired HP motherboards but will happily kill Soyo boards. HP PSUs are ONLY for use in HP boxes, some of them (MANY of the HP PSUs only work with HP other things). IF you get a normal everyday motherboard, please get it a matching normal everyday PSU, OK???? ATX12V (the sqaure connector, two yellows and two blacks) and the long rectangular one (about up to ten wire colors depending on who made and wired the PSU). IF your PSU did not come from HP, then please have it thoroughly tested, or check the voltages out of the connectors mentioned above to make sure they are right and STAY right. Ideally you need a logging VOM for this.
That takes care of hardware side, and on the software side NTDLL.DLL can be replaced by a virus which can leave you with a real mess-- AT LEAST several target DLL files.
As for the soyo board....i am being told some kind of ide problem or failure and am working with soyo for a solution. At this point any com is better than no com.
Alright maybe i am not COMPLETELY out of clear yet. I can tell my computer is running a bit sluggish and the only thing different bout this set up is 256 less ram...but i still got 768 so that shouldnt matter. I also am noticing video probs in games and slow and it jus seems to have slow reaction. I am doin a repair install then driver cleaner and diff drivers and see wat happens.
if not the boot sector on ur harddrive is on the bink