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Location: NJ | I just can't win.
I am trying to put together a machine for recording.
the MB I have is a P3 850 mhz it worked fine until I disabled it a year or 2 ago.
loaded a new hitachi 160g HD
loaded win xp pro
now I get a mircocode error
and when it finally boots it says that win bat. dll or something like that file is missing.
I reinstalled winxp and still get the error
any suggestions?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | hit the side of the box and try again. used to work on the TV. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Take it to a local 'puter fix-it shop, tell them what you are using it for and let the pimply face kid wipe the hard drive clean install your programs. If he looks at you though his thick glasses with tape in the middle and suggests you upgrade your RAM or ROM or RAP or whatever, do it.
Sometimes it's just not worth expending our ever decreasing life force over. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | hard to say. have you formatted C: drive before reinstall? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by alpep:
and buy a mac is not an option or suggestion Damn! That blows my suggestion out of the water.  |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by LBJ:
hard to say. have you formatted C: drive before reinstall? new drive formatted it before I even put in windows.
not worth taking this beast to anyone for an install, I have done this a hundred times at least with little problems, this time of course when I need the damn thing to run it won't |
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Location: south east Michigan | I have done this a hundred times All the more reason to realize that something is very different THIS particular time. |
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Location: NJ | Have you unplugged the computer and plugged it back in??
(evidently, that works in India . . .) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Total discharge of electricity....works 30% of the time.
Al, before you go to bed tonight tell it to do a deep format. This will take hours but you will be asleep.
Tomorrow take a deep breath and reinstall. |
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Location: NJ | stephen
can't even get into windows and it will no longer boot from the hitachi disk
maybe I have a bad cd drive |
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Location: big island | probably need to do a BIOS update from the MB's manufacturer. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Sounds like either the hard and/or cd drive died.
My hard drive was sick once, not dead, just crippled. I replaced her and have been happy ever since. And this is on a computer that's now 8 years old. A dinosaur in computer years. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I know buying a new one is out of the question, but I believe you can buy a Dell mini tower for less than $500. And you don't need to get any of the other stuff, just the computer. sometimes it's best to just bite the bullet. |
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Location: NJ | bios recognizes the CD and the HD drives but when it says press C to boot from the CD drive it does Nothing.
I will swap out drives and see what happens. or just find another MB |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Dear Al,
I sent the wrong power supply. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Stick to playing live and leave the recording equipment to the engineers. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Stick to playing live and leave the recording equipment to the engineers. problem is no body cares if I play live or not |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | So Michael Dell and Bill Gates walk in to a bar and they see Steve Jobs with a parrot on his shoulder ...
Dave |
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| and the parrot says to Gates and Dell....
Byte this! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | OH! That's good !!! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Al, if it turns out you need a drive I have several lying around here in the 150-300 gig range. |
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Location: Jet City | I'm trying really hard not to say it Al.... I really am. |
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Location: closely held secret | Take the hard drive back and get a different one. Chances are good it's defective. This has been happening since chinese components became so widespread, manufacturers discover whole batches get out with bad components and don't do anything about it until people start complaining. I bought 5 500g drives for my machine at work and 4 out of 5 were defective... |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Damon67:
I'm trying really hard not to say it Al.... I really am. There are many here that share the sentiment and anguish Damon.  |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by alpep:
any suggestions?
and buy a mac is not an option or suggestion Rent, borrow, or steal a Mac.
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