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NoobToast

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Ok so i decided to give my pc a quick clean out, remove the RAM, Video Card, Sound Card, Unplugged Hard Drive and clean them off and put them in. Then i plugged in this 120 gig barracuta that i havent had in it for quite some time. Booted it up and it went to a part where it would load into a part where it says Load Disk let it sit for a couple seconds then it says Disk Boot Failure. booted it down, then booted it up again and went past that although this time it went to a Disk Check. let it do the disk check. started loading windows then it looped around again and did the same thing. Im guessing my Windows HD is dying, or my MOBO went to hell. Any suggestions.
 
ok mr.toast lets have some more system info the usual cast cpu mb vc,ram os,etc.
 
DrDoU said:
ok mr.toast lets have some more system info the usual cast cpu mb vc,ram os,etc.
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kk

visiontek 2600 hd
Samsung 512mb and Crosair 512mb
1.8 GHz AMD
dont know what mobo is

i bought it from a friend over summer vacation and worked fine til now.
 
d/l cpu-z and see if ti tells you the mb brand.did you make sure that static electricity was not a problem by taking proper precautions
 
kk called my friend and he says its a ATX biostar m7ncd and yes i did take the proper precautions before hooking everything back in. but ya never know. the wierd thing is is i can boot it up in safe mode.
 
try seagates suite of diagnostic tools to give your harddrive a proper checkup.you will need model number.good luck
 
hold on dont i need to get windows running before i can use that. cause windows wont even start.
 
true sorry for the error.as best as i can tell the hard drive may be going bad.i believe you can still do diagnostis if you have a floopy and boot off of there
 
kk..thanks, ill try i have some more info about it:
the following lines appear when i try to boot (this is in monitor hardware)

PXE - E61: Media Test Failure, check cable
PXE - MOF: Exiting Nvidia Boot agent
DISK FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
 
did you reconnect the cable to the harddrive correctly?
 
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