Re: OS choice at bootup: One blank!
From: Tumbleweed (tumbleweednews_at_mysockshotmail.com)
Date: 05/31/04
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:28:25 +0100
"Brian M Davis" <bdavis34@NOSPAMcarolina.rr.com> wrote in message
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> It all started when suddenly, out of nowhere, my P4 2.4Ghz 768MB XP
Pro
> SP1 machine started rebooting spontaneously. After some time I finally
> realized it was doing this mostly while either running eMule and browsing
w/
> IE or while running a setup file, AV disabled.
> Sending error reports would tell me that either that it was an unknown
> driver error or that it was an unknown graphics driver error. Occasionally
> it would tell me to run the Windows Memory Diagnostic.
> I decided to troubleshoot based on the frequency of the
recommendations
> I would get from the error reports. I first decided to reinstall all of my
> drivers. I then focused on my GeForce 4 graphics card driver by going back
> to a previous version until I got back to the original that came with the
> box. I suspected thus far that I was wasting my time because all installed
> drivers had been running on this machine for at least two months with no
> problems.
> I then focused on my Hercules Game Theater XP sound card. Hercules
> asserted that the latest driver was safe to run even though it was not
> submitted to Microsoft for testing and approval. After removing the
hardware
> and uninstalling the driver, things did get much more stable, but Windows
> still continued to reboot while running a software setup file.
> The last time I did that, things really seemed to have gone awry as I
> got a stop error on the next bootup. I rebooted and got a different error
> stating that a system file was missing or corrupt and that inserting the
> Windows cd may be able to fix the problem.
> I tried to do a repair, but that just took me to DOS and I had no idea
> what to do at that point. I typed in "Help" and read the description of
each
> command. I tried something like "Fixboot". Chkdsk wouldn't run saying that
> there was at least one unrecoverable problem. I looked at something
similar
> to "Fixboot" but the description scared me off. I took the disk out and
> decided to try booting to Windows again.
> Upon booting, much to my surprise, I was asked to choose which OS I
> wanted to boot to. To my knowledge, I only had one installed. What's
really
> weird is one choice is Windows XP and the other choice is simply a blank
> space!!! I selected Windows and all booted up as normal. I rebooted to see
> if I would get the option again. I did. I selected the blank. It booted
the
> same as it did when I had just selected Windows. Nothing..... absolutely
> nothing looked abnormal on either bootup.
>
> Any ideas what's going on here? Any course of action to recommend?
>
> Thank you for your time and knowledge!
>
If you have an unrecoverable error on your disk the only sensible course of
action is to install a new one asap and then copy your data over to it.
-- Tumbleweed Remove my socks for email address
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