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hesperides   06-21-2009 at 04:26:11 PM

Hey, basicly my old Hard drive for some reason or another died. I got a second hand one off a friend which I beleive and he beleives to be allright. = Baracuda 7200 .6 160gb HDD IDE... Obviously when starting it gets stuck on Error loading OS.. So I restarted went into boot menu and placed CDDrive as no1 boot. Placed my XP disk in... it went through the stages:
Press any key to boot..
Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration..
-----now on the blue screen of "Press f6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver.... that passes by what should appear next is sposed to be a screen saying "press enter to install windows xp or R to repair," but that doesn't load up instead I am stuck with....

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4255/windowsstuck.png


Is this a Ram issue or ? This has been bugging me for two days now and I havn't got a clue anymore of how to fix this. Does anyone have any ideas :( ? thank you...

Chris

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hesperides   06-25-2009 at 07:41:52 PM
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Hmm, still no luck with it..?

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Zoron   06-25-2009 at 08:35:08 PM
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Try downloading Ultimate Boot CD and running some diagnostics on the RAM and the hard drive. Does the system POST normally?

------------------------------ Desktop: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit; Intel Q6600 CPU; E-VGA 780i SLI motherboard; E-VGA E-GeForce 8800GT; OCZ Vista 4GB dual-channel kit; Ultra X2 750W power supply; 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB in RAID 0. Laptop: Acer Aspire 8730-6314;
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hesperides   06-27-2009 at 02:27:47 AM
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Hmm, when it stars up it says error in Cmos.. reverting to defaults.. So i have to change the bootup menu everytime.. which is fairly annoying. Other than that the only issue is the crashing/freezing at the blue screen.. I'll try Ultimate Boot CD.

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btk1w1   06-27-2009 at 02:59:21 AM
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Does the BIOS time also revert to default, doesn't keep time?

Your CMOS battery might be cactus.

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