Re: Serious corruption problem
From: Fred (nospam_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 02/06/05
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:14:37 +0100
Luis,
Open the PC. Disconnect and reconnect the IDE cable on both ends. If the
problem is due to a loose connection, this will fix it.
Otherwise, mount the disk as slave on a working PC, use the BIOS autodetect,
boot Windows, and check the SMART status using Everest.
You may also go to the manufacturer's web site, and look for a diagnostic
tool.
Good luck, Fred
Luis ORTEGA wrote:
> 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.
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