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I have posted before and have not stated my problem clearly here goes again
I am running a gigabyte 7n400 pro board athalon xp 2800
dual channel 512 mem
I went into the bios and selected "load optimal defaults" and the macine
would not reboot, and kept going back to the screen which asks options on how
to start windows. No matter what option I select it continues to reboot. One
time a screen came up stating that I was missing setupdd.sys , a file. I read
up on this and began to swap out memory and remove all pci cards, all this to
no avail.
I also tryed to load "fail safe options" in the bios and still get the
reboot every time.
Some one suggested running windows repair which I have tryed and when I get
to that point it asks me to insert the floppy into drive A.
I do not have a floppy, so in talking to comp usa I was told that since I
have a
"upgrade" of windows Xp Pro the repair option may not be on the disk. But on
the full version (he has it) the repair is there. Dont know if this is true
or not. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this. I have tryed all
logical fixes, and have not been able to run repair as everytime I do it asks
for the repair floppy.
This in not recovery consloe either, I tryed that with chkdsk and was told
that an unrecoverable file was missing. I for marital reasons do not want to
do a new install as all data would be lost, yep no backups
thanks for any help
I have posted before and have not stated my problem clearly here goes again
I am running a gigabyte 7n400 pro board athalon xp 2800
dual channel 512 mem
I went into the bios and selected "load optimal defaults" and the macine
would not reboot, and kept going back to the screen which asks options on how
to start windows. No matter what option I select it continues to reboot. One
time a screen came up stating that I was missing setupdd.sys , a file. I read
up on this and began to swap out memory and remove all pci cards, all this to
no avail.
I also tryed to load "fail safe options" in the bios and still get the
reboot every time.
Some one suggested running windows repair which I have tryed and when I get
to that point it asks me to insert the floppy into drive A.
I do not have a floppy, so in talking to comp usa I was told that since I
have a
"upgrade" of windows Xp Pro the repair option may not be on the disk. But on
the full version (he has it) the repair is there. Dont know if this is true
or not. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this. I have tryed all
logical fixes, and have not been able to run repair as everytime I do it asks
for the repair floppy.
This in not recovery consloe either, I tryed that with chkdsk and was told
that an unrecoverable file was missing. I for marital reasons do not want to
do a new install as all data would be lost, yep no backups
thanks for any help