Re: Restart Loop after running Recovery Console

PC is home built, in use for several years. Upgraded hardware and software
many times. Current mobd is a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939, with 3000 AMD Athlon
64 FX/64 Processor. 1GB DDR. Mobd has two onboard RAID controllers, Sil and
Nvidia. Have a Memorex CDW and Lightscribe DVDWriter. Video is FX5200.

Two new hard drives are Seagate SATA 500GB installed and configured as RAID
Mirror in the Sil ports. They have the 1.5 Gb/sec jumpers installed. One
curious things is that they do not show up in BIOS. The previous 300GB drives
did, as 136GB, though. I am thinking that maybe after the BIOS setup, and
before the XP install, maybe I need to get the onboard controller drivers
installed from the mobd CD?

Your thoughts?

Thanks.

"Gerry" wrote:

What is your computer make and model? What is your Windows XP CD as it
is described on the face of the CD? I know you are saying it is a
genuine Windows XP Pro CD but there are different versions and we need
to establish which it is that you have.

In an hour or so I am departing for a weekend break. I will not be
posting again until next Tuesday. You need to keep follow up posts in
the same thread / conversation. You started a new thread which was
really following on from an earlier problem. When you do this you lose
the interest of those who were monitoring your original problem.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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GP151001 wrote:
OK, finally agreed there was nothing more I can do to repair my
install. Now I have a new error with a clean install with two new
SATA drives:

"Setup could not read the CD inserted, or the CD is not a valid
Windows CD."

"When the CD is in the drive, press ENTER."

Well, it is most certainly is a genuine Windows XP Pro CD. No visible
scratches, and it did start boot from it and start the install. What
the heck is going on?

"Gerry" wrote:


Background on latest Stop Error message
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms795800.aspx

Automated System Recovery overview in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818903

Automated System Recovery is the replacement for Emergency Repair
Disks in Windows XP. This option may not be available to you.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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GP151001 wrote:
OK, used the <F8> key, and set to disable auto restart. Got the
following error message:

BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO

STOP: 0x00000074 (0x00000003, 0x00000002, 0x80084000, 0xc000014C).

Thanks.

"Gerry" wrote:

Please post a complete copy of the Stop Error Report.

Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties,
Advanced, Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box
before Automatically Restart.

Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure even after you
have solved the problem as it's better disabled. Check for variants
of the Stop Error message.

An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and
select option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

If you are using a wireless keyboard and the F8 key does not work
substitute a wired keyboard and mouse for this exercise only.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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GP151001 wrote:
Have run multiple Recovery Installs of XP SP2, and Recovery
Console (bootcfg, chkdsk /r, and fixboot). PC still goes into
restart loop. Was getting brief two or three line message on blue
screen, but could not see error message. It flashed too quickly.
Also ran MAP ARC command and boot.ini file looked ok.

Boot drive mirror was broken when upgrading raid controller
firmware. Was actually down graded to older code. Drives came up
as "striped." Kept one drive and put in USB case. Looks like file
systems and data are still intact. Have XP SP2 CD, but no boot
disk or ASR disks, or backup.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.



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