Re: Win2K Spontaneous Reboot - Corrupted Drive
From: Warren C. E. Austin (warrenceaustin_at_netscape.net)
Date: 04/03/04
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 21:57:42 -0500
Try replacing the ribbon cables connecting hard-disks to the controller. You should do this for all devices; if not possible, do so for the primary boot-device.
Power-spikes and other crashes can damage the cables, and Windows'2000 IS NOT fault-tolerant regarding power-leaks, especially from items such as your cabling. If possible boot the machine to MS-DOS and test the functionality of the hard-drive before replacing cables; if it all appears to be work as it should, then definitely replace the cables and try booting back into W2K.
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
Jim wrote:
> Hi
>
> Strange occurrence. The computer has had Win2K on it for a couple of
> years now, no serious problems. It's updated/patched regularly.
> Tonight, the screen saver is active, so I hit a key to get back to the
> desktop. Bam! Spontaneous reboot. While rebooting, after the POST
> messages, there's a very long delay where nothing happens (black
> screen). This lasts about 20 seconds. Then, I get an error:
>
> Disk I/O error: Status = 00001000
>
> Then another error:
>
> Invalid boot.ini file
> Booting from c:\winnt
>
> Then I get the Win2K boot screen. When the status bar is almost filled,
> I get a BSOD with the following error:
>
> STOP: 0x000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
>
> That's it, system is unusable (I tried booting into Safe Mode, same
> sequence of errors). The really strange thing, this exact same thing
> happened to my other computer 2 weeks ago (different hardware, same OS).
> I keep my virus definitions up-to-date and I have firewalls on all my
> boxes. Anyone seen anything like this? On my other computer, I tried
> booting from the Win2K CDROM, hitting Rescue mode and trying 'fixmbr',
> but that didn't help. I rebuilt that box with XP (and a new HD), but I
> don't want to have to do that with this box. It's very strange that two
> machines exhibit the almost identical problem within weeks of each other.
>
> Any suggestions, insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Jim
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