Greetings fellow compatriots!
I'm officially stumped in my conundrum. I have a machine with these specifications:
Motherboard: P5GD1-VM
Processor: Intel E6600 (2.4GHZ)
RAM: 4 Sticks of Corsair XMS2 1GB DDR2 SDRam
Video Card: EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP
Power Supply: 750mw Antec (Don't remember exact model)
Hard Drive I've mainly been working with: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB
Here's my problem:
Randomly, out of the blue when booting this machine, Windows would get to the normal screen with the loading bar, and bam - Blue Screen of death with a 0x00000024 error, which looks like it's an NTFS error.
Alright, so I try putting in my Windows XP Home Edition disc so I can try doing a repair, except when it loads up I get this message:
"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Make sure any hard drisk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program.
Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3."
Oooookay. So I take the hard-drive out, change the IDE cable to a brand new one, reconnect the power connection and boot again.
Blue screen again, except I get this error code: 0x00000007b, which is for "Inaccessible boot device."
At this point, as you can imagine, I am thinking my drive has died.
I take it out, try it in another computer, exact same specifications and BAM. Loads up perfectly. Out of curiousity, I take the hard-drive from the second computer and place it in the first. Exact same errors, but when it's placed back into the second computer, it boots up, no problem. I even tried it on the other IDE channel to no avail.
The BIOS recognizes the hard-drives so I don't think it's a BIOS issue. My only thought at this point is that the motherboard is BUST.
Any ideas?
I'm officially stumped in my conundrum. I have a machine with these specifications:
Motherboard: P5GD1-VM
Processor: Intel E6600 (2.4GHZ)
RAM: 4 Sticks of Corsair XMS2 1GB DDR2 SDRam
Video Card: EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP
Power Supply: 750mw Antec (Don't remember exact model)
Hard Drive I've mainly been working with: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB
Here's my problem:
Randomly, out of the blue when booting this machine, Windows would get to the normal screen with the loading bar, and bam - Blue Screen of death with a 0x00000024 error, which looks like it's an NTFS error.
Alright, so I try putting in my Windows XP Home Edition disc so I can try doing a repair, except when it loads up I get this message:
"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Make sure any hard drisk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program.
Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3."
Oooookay. So I take the hard-drive out, change the IDE cable to a brand new one, reconnect the power connection and boot again.
Blue screen again, except I get this error code: 0x00000007b, which is for "Inaccessible boot device."
At this point, as you can imagine, I am thinking my drive has died.
I take it out, try it in another computer, exact same specifications and BAM. Loads up perfectly. Out of curiousity, I take the hard-drive from the second computer and place it in the first. Exact same errors, but when it's placed back into the second computer, it boots up, no problem. I even tried it on the other IDE channel to no avail.
The BIOS recognizes the hard-drives so I don't think it's a BIOS issue. My only thought at this point is that the motherboard is BUST.
Any ideas?
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