Re: Serious corruption problem
From: philo (philo_at_privacy.net)
Date: 02/06/05
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 07:14:12 -0600
"Luis ORTEGA" <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>I maintain a half dozen PC workstations at my school for video editing,
>most of which I've built. I was off on a field trip Friday and I turned on
>all the machines and left things ready for the sub. During video class,
>some kids started fooling around and did something to one of the computers,
>perhaps in the bios or in Windows (XP) or even physically, because when I
>returned at the end of the day the computer was frozen on the desktop
>screen but with no taskbar, mouse cursor or any other icon showing.
> No key strokes or mouse movements made any difference, so I did a reboot
> and then the computer advised me to run a checkdisk before coming up all
> the way to Windows, which I did but that process froze at about 20%
> completion of step 2.
> I tried turning it off then back on and then the computer couldn't find
> the primary drive and hung during the bootup process. I went into the bios
> to check around and eventually got it to recognize the primary drive so I
> saved the changes and it continued to load. It again advised to run
> checkdisk and this time it proceeded through the process. It reported
> literally dozens of files that had a problem and had been repaired during
> check disk. Once up into Windows, everything looked normal again and I was
> able to start and use Photoshop and MS Word, but when I tried to start
> Premiere Pro the computer turned rebooted and then couldn't find either
> the master or slave drives on the primary controller.
> I spent over an hour trying to stabilize, it but it either won't recognize
> the primary master, and sometimes the primary slave too, or if I'm
> successful at that, it tried to load Windows and kept hanging at the Win
> XP logo.
> I've tried everything I know in the bios (loading bios defaults, manually
> selecting the drives) but nothing seems to stick. I tried last known good
> configuration also with no luck. I'm stumped.
> This could have been done by operational or physical carelessness or done
> with malicious intent, I don't know. The sub said that the kids were
> fooling around and the room is small, so it could be physical damage, or
> they could have gone into the bios or into Windows explorer or even the
> registry and made some changes.
> No one would admit to anything (but that's another story).
> Can anyone please advise me on what might be going on, and what I might
> try next?
> I can reformat everything and reload if it comes to that, but if it is
> damage to the bios or the mobo or the drives then it won't help.
> Thanks a lot for any advice on this problem.
>
go to the website of the harddive mfg
and download and run the diagnostic utility...
it could be a bad drive
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