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Failure to boot
My Gateway 700 seems is having problems. First indication
was that it would stop at the Gateway screen (with press tab for information at the bottom). Pressing tab would go to an simple info screen that just said the type of processor and hard disk. To get out of that screen, I had to turn the machine off. Then it would boot normally. This has happened several times. It seemed to get worse and I had to go through this sequence 2-3l times before it would boot normally. Once it didn't show any info on the hard disk. Then on starting it would go to a screen saying to insert a boot disk in A: Sometimes if I turned it off it would just boot normally. Two times when it went to the A prompt, I inserted a Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools disk, which it booted and then I went to diagnostics which said the hard disk was ok, (then it would boot normally). I've also used PC Doctor (came on the machine) and did a complete test of the hard disk and the system and all were working fine. I was beginning to think this was a software problem, but today, while on the internet, it went from netscape to the A prompt and wouldn't even recognize the WD diagnostic disk. To me that suggest some kind of hardware failure. I've pulled and replugged in the data and the power cables to the HD. It's been working for the past few hours, but I expect it to again not boot properly. I looked at the system event log and it shows several Errors --a device/H/D/O failure during paging. So: It could be the HD, but the tests indicate it is ok. It could be the cables. I don't have another cable to try yet, but I don't think this is the problem. It could be the power supply, but I don't have any evidence for this and my computer is not really hot and the output air is barely warm. Have I missed anything or what else should I look at? Thanks. |
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George,
I am sure one of the Guru's here will answer your question, but here is a microsoft website where you can enter the event viewer message source and ID and get some information about your specific error: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/support/ee.asp Hope this helps, Kevin "George E. Cawthon" wrote in message ... My Gateway 700 seems is having problems. First indication was that it would stop at the Gateway screen (with press tab for information at the bottom). Pressing tab would go to an simple info screen that just said the type of processor and hard disk. To get out of that screen, I had to turn the machine off. Then it would boot normally. This has happened several times. It seemed to get worse and I had to go through this sequence 2-3l times before it would boot normally. Once it didn't show any info on the hard disk. Then on starting it would go to a screen saying to insert a boot disk in A: Sometimes if I turned it off it would just boot normally. Two times when it went to the A prompt, I inserted a Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools disk, which it booted and then I went to diagnostics which said the hard disk was ok, (then it would boot normally). I've also used PC Doctor (came on the machine) and did a complete test of the hard disk and the system and all were working fine. I was beginning to think this was a software problem, but today, while on the internet, it went from netscape to the A prompt and wouldn't even recognize the WD diagnostic disk. To me that suggest some kind of hardware failure. I've pulled and replugged in the data and the power cables to the HD. It's been working for the past few hours, but I expect it to again not boot properly. I looked at the system event log and it shows several Errors --a device/H/D/O failure during paging. So: It could be the HD, but the tests indicate it is ok. It could be the cables. I don't have another cable to try yet, but I don't think this is the problem. It could be the power supply, but I don't have any evidence for this and my computer is not really hot and the output air is barely warm. Have I missed anything or what else should I look at? Thanks. |
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It happenned to me and over time it nolonger start the HD as in CMOS it
was not there. Turned out to be a MBR corruption. Wiped the HD (30%) with gwscan and reloaded XP pro. End of problem. Albert George E. Cawthon wrote: My Gateway 700 seems is having problems. First indication was that it would stop at the Gateway screen (with press tab for information at the bottom). Pressing tab would go to an simple info screen that just said the type of processor and hard disk. To get out of that screen, I had to turn the machine off. Then it would boot normally. This has happened several times. It seemed to get worse and I had to go through this sequence 2-3l times before it would boot normally. Once it didn't show any info on the hard disk. Then on starting it would go to a screen saying to insert a boot disk in A: Sometimes if I turned it off it would just boot normally. Two times when it went to the A prompt, I inserted a Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools disk, which it booted and then I went to diagnostics which said the hard disk was ok, (then it would boot normally). I've also used PC Doctor (came on the machine) and did a complete test of the hard disk and the system and all were working fine. I was beginning to think this was a software problem, but today, while on the internet, it went from netscape to the A prompt and wouldn't even recognize the WD diagnostic disk. To me that suggest some kind of hardware failure. I've pulled and replugged in the data and the power cables to the HD. It's been working for the past few hours, but I expect it to again not boot properly. I looked at the system event log and it shows several Errors --a device/H/D/O failure during paging. So: It could be the HD, but the tests indicate it is ok. It could be the cables. I don't have another cable to try yet, but I don't think this is the problem. It could be the power supply, but I don't have any evidence for this and my computer is not really hot and the output air is barely warm. Have I missed anything or what else should I look at? Thanks. |
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