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HELP!!! Computer stuck in Stand-By
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DDG994
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26. September 2007 @ 18:01 |
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HEY, My PC is stuck in stand by. I made a Bootable XPSP2 disk and went to do a fresh install of windows and I got a boot error. it asked for the bootable disk. I thought it meant the XP disk(original). It didn't it wanted the 98se disk that came with my system. So after many failed attempts at a lot of bone head things my computer is now in stand by and wont come out. I have a boot disk 3.5 of 98se and I have my bios update on floppy but I can't get my computer on. Any suggestions?? Thanks
Jimmy
Gateway Performence 733
I believe a 140 MG WD hard drive (it's 2 months old)
256 ram (133)
Intel Pentium 3
Floppy (A)
CD (D)
I've never had a problem with this thing at all it's been very reliable.
Jimmy
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26. September 2007 @ 23:19 |
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Is the hard disk blank, or does it have stuff on it?
Also have you set your PC to boot from CD first in the BIOS?
some older motherboards only seem to try the first option then give up.
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DDG994
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27. September 2007 @ 06:48 |
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I unplugged everything ie. hd and floppy and booted it up checked the bios my HD is showing 137MG went to WD website and it said olderBIOS cant see the HD so I put my boot up XP disk in and split the HD in half. formatted it and all that. computer starts back up and starts the loop all over again. it's not holding onto any data. also I can hear it spin but i don,t hear "clicking" it sounds weird. I've got 2 "crappy" older PCs (IBB aptiva & Compaq) that I'm gonna put the HD in and see if it's still good. I was trying to update the Gateway for my 12 year old neice. If worse comes to worse I just take 1 of the other hard drives and put it the Gtwy for her all she does is play Sims. Also i tried a BIOS update but I need a NEW disk it saya it can;t be formatted. thank you for your help and any other advice is appreciated. Everything I've done so far I got from post's on this site. this is the best site I've seen for advice. I'll keep ya posted. Thanks,
Jimmy
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27. September 2007 @ 09:39 |
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Sounds like a plan, give it a test in some other PCs (they'll need to be quite recent to see more than 127GB). Btw, I hope it's a 140 GB hard drive not MB as that would be quite small!
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DDG994
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27. September 2007 @ 17:19 |
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Hey...(UGHHHHHHHH) its a 160GB but the whole windows thing..it only saw 137gb so now i put it into the IBM aptiva I thats layin' out in the garage and put in the data lifeguard disk (I put it in as a slave to the 12GB HD) the DLG cd saw the whole 160GB. so the HD is good i deleted everything/formatted it and made a mirror copy of windows 2000pro that was on the IBM unhooked the master and hooked the 160GB up as master. woulndt boot. so i put it in my Gateway and would'nt boot. So now I'm pissed..Bill gates is no friend of mine. So I go and try to take an OEM XP disk and install that....starts that whole F?%^%#$% loop again(computer almost got thrown about a block).So i shut it down and restarted it no I get NTDLR is missing press any key to re-start.
I still need to get a blank floppy to do the BIOS? If I do the bios and install XP with OEM disk will that work???? I'm starting to beleive that microsoft is out to take over the world the whole conspiracy thing.
thanks
jimmy
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28. September 2007 @ 04:30 |
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As someone who tried to install Vista sixteen times before realising that is motherboard is incompatible (it shouldn't be) with it, I can sympathise.
Get your recent PC. Use a floppy to get into DOS, and wipe the 160GB clean. Then boot from your XP CD and run the installer. If after or during the install you get 'NTLDR is missing' the hard disk is faulty. On occasions, hard disks can work, be recognised and transfer data fine, but simply cannot hold an OS as they mess up the bootloaders. My 500GB WD is one example.
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DDG994
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28. September 2007 @ 07:24 |
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Thats what i was going to try today. My Gateway has had Xp on it before Once through an upgrade and Once when th HD was new. I think I know where my Original problem csme from I made my own Bootabl CD of XPSP2 ...But, I woused the boot.img from a 98se disk whoops. thanks for your help. I'll keep ya posted.
Jimmy
Jimmy
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DDG994
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28. September 2007 @ 07:28 |
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O'yeah where can i get the disk and what commands do i use? (I'm fairly new at all this.) Thanks
Jimmy
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28. September 2007 @ 08:32 |
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Well unless you own XP (not just that it came on a PC, but you actually own the disc) you'll have to buy it again to get a legal copy.
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DDG994
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28. September 2007 @ 08:59 |
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I own an OEM disk but its still not working just took HD from the Compaq I have and stuck the hard drive in the gateway no luck so I threw in the XP disk same shit. I think the disk is bad. I just contacted Gateway. I'm waiting to hear back.
Jimmy
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DDG994
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30. September 2007 @ 17:13 |
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Okay I put the HD from the old Compaq in 12GB and made the hard drive the Slave. It booted, it loaded and it works(Windows 98se). I'm installing XP on the WD 160GB HD right now the same way and it seems to be okay. I'll keep the 12GB HD as an Emergency drive just in case. Thanks for all your help. I'll keep ya' posted. I still need to do a BIOS update though.
Cheers,
Jimmy
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