sch Posted September 28, 2006 Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 A couple days ago i got a blue screen of death , i didnt have anything runng. I reset the computer and it boots just fine but when it gets to windows xp splash screen it just apears to be loading forever. hard drive stops spinning after maybe 5 seconds. so i try to boot in safe mode and all is well , list all the drivers and then it stops and just sits there. its does this in all the boot options - safe mode w/ cmd, lst good cfg, etc.. So then i booted from xp disk and entered windows setup to either reinstall or repair but both give me the same result - no hard drive installed in this machine make sure cords properly installed ......." i had a bootable cd into DR-DOS laying around so i booted that and looked for my hard drive and i can see everything there no problem....i dont understand this!!!! is this a MBR problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted September 28, 2006 Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 Sounds like bad ram to me...You could download MEMTEST and run it to find out if it is the ram that's gone bad..It's really easy to make the disk.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playaj20008 Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 A couple days ago i got a blue screen of death , i didnt have anything runng. I reset the computer and it boots just fine but when it gets to windows xp splash screen it just apears to be loading forever. hard drive stops spinning after maybe 5 seconds. so i try to boot in safe mode and all is well , list all the drivers and then it stops and just sits there. its does this in all the boot options - safe mode w/ cmd, lst good cfg, etc.. So then i booted from xp disk and entered windows setup to either reinstall or repair but both give me the same result - no hard drive installed in this machine make sure cords properly installed ......." i had a bootable cd into DR-DOS laying around so i booted that and looked for my hard drive and i can see everything there no problem....i dont understand this!!!! is this a MBR problem?I have had this problem before. For me, I just let it sit at the loading screen. It will sit there for a good 20-30 minutes but eventually it will get through. Once in You should run antivirus and anti-spyware, defragment, and perform all the other usual fixes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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