System Specs
Asus A8N SLI Delux Socket 939
AMD 3500+ cpu
2X HDD in Raid 0
FDD
BluRay R/W
2GB RAM
WinXP SP3
EVGA 6800 Video Card
Background: I use this computer as a media server and/or NAS. It stays on 24/7 and has had zero problems for the last 5 years.
What its doing: The computer essentially froze up on me so I rebooted it. I did a cold boot (power off / on) and the BIOS screen comes up - the Raid screen comes up - sees the two HDD of the array and then returns to the power on BIOS screen. It does this in a loop. I get no errors and the normal one beep from the system speaker.
What I have done: I have disabled the FDD in the BIOS - no change. I then disabled the DVD/BluRay drive so It would only attempt to boot from the Raid Array - no change. I have run a memory test - no errors.
I suspect: The boot log may be corrupted in the Raid Array - but it doesn't even attempt to load windows - just recycles as if I powered it off/on.
Power supply could be going bad - fortunately I have a new one coming in the next day or so.
Possibly one of the Legacy Drives could be going bad also - FDD (not used very much at all) but disabling it in the BIOS should have taken care of this.
What I think happened to this computer is: I touched it and got a nice static shock from myself to the case. It was very soon afterward (within 20 minutes) that this problem started.
I was planning on upgrading this computer anyway with a new motherboard / processor / power supply and Win7. I have all the parts either on order or on hand. I would really like to be able to recover the Raid Array to ensure that everything I wanted is off it.
I have not yet tried to run the WinXP Repair utility from the XP install disk - I am kind of thinking that this is a hardware issue.
Asus A8N SLI Delux Socket 939
AMD 3500+ cpu
2X HDD in Raid 0
FDD
BluRay R/W
2GB RAM
WinXP SP3
EVGA 6800 Video Card
Background: I use this computer as a media server and/or NAS. It stays on 24/7 and has had zero problems for the last 5 years.
What its doing: The computer essentially froze up on me so I rebooted it. I did a cold boot (power off / on) and the BIOS screen comes up - the Raid screen comes up - sees the two HDD of the array and then returns to the power on BIOS screen. It does this in a loop. I get no errors and the normal one beep from the system speaker.
What I have done: I have disabled the FDD in the BIOS - no change. I then disabled the DVD/BluRay drive so It would only attempt to boot from the Raid Array - no change. I have run a memory test - no errors.
I suspect: The boot log may be corrupted in the Raid Array - but it doesn't even attempt to load windows - just recycles as if I powered it off/on.
Power supply could be going bad - fortunately I have a new one coming in the next day or so.
Possibly one of the Legacy Drives could be going bad also - FDD (not used very much at all) but disabling it in the BIOS should have taken care of this.
What I think happened to this computer is: I touched it and got a nice static shock from myself to the case. It was very soon afterward (within 20 minutes) that this problem started.
I was planning on upgrading this computer anyway with a new motherboard / processor / power supply and Win7. I have all the parts either on order or on hand. I would really like to be able to recover the Raid Array to ensure that everything I wanted is off it.
I have not yet tried to run the WinXP Repair utility from the XP install disk - I am kind of thinking that this is a hardware issue.