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A Big Mystery To Me
Okay, having some problems with my system at home. I'm going to run
down a list of problems, things I've tried, and the results. I'm stumped here, so I'd like whatever feedback is out there... I've got a P4 2.4GHz processor with 512MB PC2700, GeForce 4 Ti4200, Soundblaster Audigy2, 300w power supply, c:\ drive is a 60 GB Maxtor, and d:\ drive is a 120GB Western Digital. - Got home one day and the monitor was black. I rebooted the system and got into Windows, however, my D:\ drive didn't show up. - Tried rebooting again only to not be able to boot into Windows at all. It would get to the Windows XP Loading screen, then go blank, wait a few moments, and restart. - Booting into save mode froze and died on me when it got to agp440.sys (I think it is) - I hastily installed Linux on a free partition on my c:\ drive, and was fortunately able to recover many of the files on my D:\ drive and burn them to DVD. Not the slightest problem accessing the drive or the data. - I tried physically disconnecting the D:\ drive, and the system booted. - I went into the Windows XP recovery console and ran chkdsk on the D:\ drive. It said it found one or more errors on the drive. - The system booted up fine into Windows after this for all of one day; I ran a chkdsk from Windows and found that the D:\ drive reported 4KB in bad sectors. - The next day it went back to going blank after the XP loading screen. - I tried the recovery console again, chkdsk found errors on D:\, but this time the system still didn't boot into Windows. - I ran chkdsk on the C:\ drive and it said it found one or more errors. - I tried using the XP disk to recovery my Windows XP installation. At one point during the process, it reported that a dll couldn't be loaded. After restarting the system and re-attempting this process, everything installed properly. However, upon trying to boot into Windows I got a very rare BSOD with the error message of "INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR". - It did this every time I tried to boot the system. Finally, I gave up and formatted the C:\ drive and reinstalled Windows. It booted into the system fine, and everything seems to work well. - I ran a chkdsk from Windows to happily find that there were no bad sectors on the C:\ drive. - I have yet to plug the D:\ drive back in. I'm kind of afraid to. I haven't added any new hardware or any significant software on the system in quite some time, and it appeared to have been running fine under its previous configuration. I haven't a clue what started this frustrating chain of events. I'm open for any input and/or speculation. Kenneth |
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