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Just today I was surfing the net fine no problem, dling some torrents, and all like I normally do. Just randomly, my screen goes black, monitor goes to standby and numlock key wont come on or off. My D-link switch in my room slowly backs down to a solid light from an active blinking state, and I have no choice but to hard reset. I do this, and after the normal post screen, and SATA BIOS screen detecting the usual 1 80gb HD, verifying DMI pool data comes up as normal, but this is where it goes wrong. Normally, it will verify DMI pool data for about 1-2sec, then jump right into the XP boot screen. This time, it straight froze there (Verifying DMI crap), and after many repeated attempts of rebooting and letting to "verify", it still stays frozen when at that point.
The BIOS is fully functional, and everything works fine before that DMI screen after the inital BIOS screen with my fullscreen logo and device detection. So I go into the BIOS and set failsafe yada yada, and it comes to instead of a freeze, NTLDR missing press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart. I say, oh defaults in BIOS are to boot from the IDE HD which is my current storage disk, and since it just stores files, no OS it wont obviously boot. So the NTLDR thing is just it telling me that the IDE drive is bootable from since it passed the DMI pool data part on the screen and just failed to boot from the drive.
So I've come to the conclusion that if it attempts to boot from the SATA disk, it will freeze at verifying...DMI. Since there is no OS on the IDE drive, I'm assuming it would boot if it did have an OS on it since I'm currently typing this from the miniPE2-XT boot disk which is basically a modifyed lite windows install on cd which I booted fine into from my DVD-RW drive. Is this an SATA controller problem? Oh almost forgot..When im in the miniPE emulated windows thing on cd, i can access the files fine on the SATA drive, so it dosent seem to be a problem with the hard disk or controller funcionality but some bug with it freezing.
I have tried:
Basic Components: Mobo, VGA, 1 stick RAM, no PCI cards, SATA HD. - Freeze
CMOS Clear - Freeze
PSU on/off switch=drain caps, reboot - Freeze
All components pass tests and are stable when loaded into some sort of GUI to test them, but will not load anything with SATA is set to first priority boot past the DMI pool..(tired of this word yet ).
Thanks for the read if you did, and if you have any ideas at all, please please tell me as I need the computer in normal winXP today to try and lighten my load for digital design class for a project due end period tomorrow.
David.
The BIOS is fully functional, and everything works fine before that DMI screen after the inital BIOS screen with my fullscreen logo and device detection. So I go into the BIOS and set failsafe yada yada, and it comes to instead of a freeze, NTLDR missing press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart. I say, oh defaults in BIOS are to boot from the IDE HD which is my current storage disk, and since it just stores files, no OS it wont obviously boot. So the NTLDR thing is just it telling me that the IDE drive is bootable from since it passed the DMI pool data part on the screen and just failed to boot from the drive.
So I've come to the conclusion that if it attempts to boot from the SATA disk, it will freeze at verifying...DMI. Since there is no OS on the IDE drive, I'm assuming it would boot if it did have an OS on it since I'm currently typing this from the miniPE2-XT boot disk which is basically a modifyed lite windows install on cd which I booted fine into from my DVD-RW drive. Is this an SATA controller problem? Oh almost forgot..When im in the miniPE emulated windows thing on cd, i can access the files fine on the SATA drive, so it dosent seem to be a problem with the hard disk or controller funcionality but some bug with it freezing.
I have tried:
Basic Components: Mobo, VGA, 1 stick RAM, no PCI cards, SATA HD. - Freeze
CMOS Clear - Freeze
PSU on/off switch=drain caps, reboot - Freeze
All components pass tests and are stable when loaded into some sort of GUI to test them, but will not load anything with SATA is set to first priority boot past the DMI pool..(tired of this word yet ).
Thanks for the read if you did, and if you have any ideas at all, please please tell me as I need the computer in normal winXP today to try and lighten my load for digital design class for a project due end period tomorrow.
David.