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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-17-2004 at 03:22:12 PM

hi,

i bought a firewire 3 port pci card and slapped it in the available pci slot. turned on pc and it was automatically installed and recognised by windows xp.

restarted pc and experienced long start up time but eventually got to desktop BUT THEN IT CRASHES and following message window pops up:

HP Ai0 Device Object Server
Register (InssObjectsfailed: hRes = 0x800706135
The interface is Unkmown
Maximum retry attempts exceeded

Help what SHALL I DO?

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mrmonsoon   05-18-2004 at 02:07:48 AM
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Step one, remove the firewire card and see if the system boots. If not, try booting into safe mode, it loads a minimum of "stuff" and poke around and seee whats up.

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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-18-2004 at 03:02:58 PM
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can i go to Start.........to System Restore in 'Safe Mode'?

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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-19-2004 at 01:18:35 PM
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booted into 'safe mode' went to system restore and the following error window message pops up:

SYSTEM RESTORE IS NOT ABLE TO PROTECT YOUR
COMPUTER. PLEASE RESTART AND TRY SYSTEM RESTORE
AGAIN.

I did that but im still getting the above message.
what shall i do?

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Anonymous   05-19-2004 at 06:05:07 PM
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Do like mrmonsoon said and take the firewire card out of the computer. And then see if the computer will boot up. If it does, it's not a problem with windows. Make sure that the card is XP compatible and that you have the latest drivers from the manufacturers web site.

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mrmonsoon   05-20-2004 at 01:57:17 AM
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Sorry for not answering for awhile, had problems with my own rig-turned out to be bad m/b.
I am going to repeat, first, remove the firewire card.
Try to boot normally-Yes-bad card in one way or another.
No-boot into safe mode and remove anysoftware and or drivers for the card. Reboot the computer and try to go in normally.

Update us and we will go from there.

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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-21-2004 at 04:11:42 PM
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rebooted into safe mode and strangely and cant see the devive software/drivers to uninstall?

anyway system restore doesnt work in safe mode so i REPAIRED XP FROM THE SUPPLIED CD Then everything was fine.

but......

WHEN I RESTART THE PC THE SAME BLIMEY PROBLEM EXPLAINED IN THE FIRST POST HAPPENS AGAIN AND AGAIN.

PLEASE HELP?

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Anonymous   05-21-2004 at 05:28:38 PM
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Did you take out the card, as suggested?

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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-22-2004 at 04:38:15 PM
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yes i took out the card straight away when suggested.

please help!

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mrmonsoon   05-22-2004 at 05:29:36 PM
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Ok lets try this, boot into safe mode and get to device manager (right click my computer,properties,in system properties box choose hardware, device manager) and see if the card is still listed. If it is , right click on it and choose uninstall ( I am thinking maybe xp doesn't know it's gone) and then reboot. let me know the results.

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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-24-2004 at 01:44:24 PM
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i did that but already mentioned strangely the card is not listed under device manager.

anyway i cant take this anymore so i did a fresh install of windows but there is a error during fresh installation:

setup encountered fatal error...

please help!!

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mrmonsoon   05-24-2004 at 07:25:58 PM
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Did you distroy the previous partion and create anew one for your fresh install?

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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-25-2004 at 05:44:51 PM
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i destroyed the previous partition.

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sparky853   05-25-2004 at 08:46:42 PM
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Try running memtest86, available <A HREF="http://www.memtest86.com" target="_new">here</A> and test your memory. could be u messed something else up when installing or removing the PCI card.

Spec:
Intel P4 2.4B
MSI 645E Max-U Mobo
1GB DDR333
R9600XT 128MB
SB Live 5.1
WD 60GB
Maxtor 120GB
LG DVD+-R/RW
WIN2K PRO SP4

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mAtRiXrIpOfF   05-27-2004 at 01:55:41 PM
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hi,

how do i format my hard drive by not using the supplied windows CD.

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blah   05-27-2004 at 07:09:31 PM
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What windows?

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

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mrmonsoon   05-27-2004 at 11:23:21 PM
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If you have or can you make a windows 98 boot disk that will work. If not go to the website of your harddrive manufacturer. Most have a program that can be download and put on a floppy disk. You boot to it, it will load a simple os and go from their.
"FAIR WARNNING" microsoft does not like partions made from other software and you may have a problem with that.
Hope that helped.
:)

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