Windows will not start up!
Started by
nada
, Jan 26 2006 07:17 PM
#1
Posted 26 January 2006 - 07:17 PM
#2
Posted 26 January 2006 - 07:20 PM
is there anything else written? things like unmountable drive, no boot sector, non-system disk
#3
Posted 26 January 2006 - 09:33 PM
no just "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT"
#4
Posted 27 January 2006 - 06:36 AM
sounds to me like your boot records are corrupted
#5
Posted 27 January 2006 - 06:37 PM
so does that mean i have to get a new harddrive?
#6
Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:12 PM
Gotta saymore than that....nonsystem disk, press any key to reboot?
Check to make sure there isno floppy disk in the floppy drive
Check to make sure there isno floppy disk in the floppy drive
#7
Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:24 PM
nope no floppy and that's the only thing there. press a key to reboot. might the connector be jammed?
#8
Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:27 PM
what can you tell us about the computer? Model/Make
The only thing that makes sense is a failing RAID controller or RAID config if that is the ONLY Message you are getting.
The only thing that makes sense is a failing RAID controller or RAID config if that is the ONLY Message you are getting.
#9
Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:32 PM
wait a minute...that's not the only thing...do you have a windows xp disk so we can get into recovery console...I think Babytech is on to something...you could be getting that if your partition boot sector is hosed (not the master boot sector.
#10
Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:45 PM
it's my really old computer. It's an Intel, Asus P3B-F motherboard. i have a windows xp cd but when i put it in, the computer won't give me an option to boot from it. It just coughs up that screen.
#11
Posted 27 January 2006 - 09:41 PM
you would need to change your boot order in your bios to read from cd first.
#12
Posted 28 January 2006 - 01:35 AM
but my computer won't detect any harddrives or cd drives. when i start my computer, next to the primary master it says NONE and next to secondary master, there is a harddrive i don't use. my cd drive won't be detected and i can't change the boot order in my BIOS.
#13
Posted 28 January 2006 - 09:42 AM
First of all, what do you mean you can't change the boot order? even if no drives are detected, you should be able to change it.
As far as your system not detecting any physical drives, have you changed any of the physical connections? if not your problem is gonna be a lot bigger then what we started with.
As far as your system not detecting any physical drives, have you changed any of the physical connections? if not your problem is gonna be a lot bigger then what we started with.
#14
Posted 28 January 2006 - 11:11 AM
physical cable might have slipped out of the slot
#15
Posted 28 January 2006 - 05:48 PM
well it won't detect any physical drives. i think something slipped out too but everything looks fine. can i just try plugging random data cables into this one empty data cable slot on my motherboard? there's two but one's already plugged in so i'm not sure if i just start plugging random things in. Thanks!
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