RE: System blue screens and reboots endlessly under Windows XP
- From: Andrew E. <eckrichco@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:49:01 -0800
You should have installed,1st intel chipset installation utility,then
install intel
matrix storage manager,i believe thiers a 925 chipset add on utility also,all
at intel.com/downloads/chipset software
"Neil Bradley" wrote:
> I've got a Windows XP system that blue screens and reboots endlessly.
> This system worked perfectly a couple of days ago (and months before).
> It gets right to the point where, apparentlly, it's trying to load the
> kernel, blue screens, and reboots. When I went to bed last night, it was
> fine. I woke up to it rebooting like this. (It restarted a bit after
> 4AM, which is when I have it download updates from MS).
>
> System configuration:
>
> * Intel D925EXCV2 system. 3GHz Pentium 4.
> * 2 300 Gigabyte SATA Hard drives connected to the motherboard in a RAID
> 1 (mirrored) configuration
> * 1 400 Gigabyte SATA hard drive connected to the motherboard - no raid
> - just a standalone drive
> * Using the onboard RAID controller
>
> * Windows XP Service pack 2 with everything the latest updates from
> Microsoft.
>
> * System has been working fine for 2+ months. Rebooted a couple of days
> ago and everything was OK then.
>
> * The boot order in the BIOS is the same as it has been since day one -
> no changes, and I verified the peripherals are OK.
>
> * There are no problems with the RAID array according to the controller.
>
> Odd things I've noticed:
>
> * Windows XP now thinks the 400 gigabyte drive is my C (boot) drive, and
> the 300 gigabyte array is my D drive. No idea how this happened, but the
> RAID controller itself still thinks the 300 gig array is the C drive.
>
> * The blue screen, I'm assuming, is an inaccessible boot device or some
> other problem, as I had a similar problem on another machine. I've seen
> this problem if the boot order in the BIOS doesn't match the same boot
> order as when XP was installed.
>
> * The RAID controller driver *IS* present and installed
>
> * If I boot up in debug mode, the system boots to the login screen. I
> can click to login, type my password, and as the system is starting to
> boot, the entire system freezes - no mouse movement, no keyboard -
> completely dead.
>
> * I attempted to do a repair install, but it claims there is no XP
> installation on the RAID array drive, yet I can boot in to the recovery
> console (and loading the RAID drivers off the floppy via F6) and it
> winds up showing up as my C drive if I disconnect the 400 gig drive, and
> my D drive if I have the 400 gig drive connected.
>
> I'm doing a chkdsk /f, but does anyone have any idea what could've
> happend to cause this, or better yet, what I can do to fix it? The data
> is still there on the drive, so I haven't lost anything.
>
> -->Neil
>
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