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No boot after power failure!

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Name: xxdarksliderxx
Date: August 3, 2005 at 10:12:54 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: 3GHz/2048mb DDR2 533Mhz R
Comment:

I recently had a power outage while computer was on. I was in a game. When I start my computer now, in:

Normal mode, I get a blue screen which shows for all of half a second, then the computer reboots. This happens right after the windows XP loading screen.

Last known good configuration, same thing.

All safe modes, no blue screen, just reboots.

I pulled out all my memory and inspected it, looks fine. Put it all back in, no change. I figured it was linked to my memory because I've seen that screen before with faulty RAM. Any other ideas?




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Name: El Klandero
Date: August 3, 2005 at 10:17:33 Pacific
Reply:

Something might have gone screwy with the power supply. After I shut down my comp by tripping the surge protector my PSU was fried. Hope that helps.

No time for love, Dr. Jones!


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Response Number 2
Name: lordstorm
Date: August 3, 2005 at 10:57:47 Pacific
Reply:

pop in ur winxp cd
boot from it
goto the recovery console
run CHKDSK

exit when done
reboot

that should fix it

hope that helps


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Response Number 3
Name: xxdarksliderxx
Date: August 3, 2005 at 11:27:57 Pacific
Reply:

Yes, that would be a good idea, if I had a legal copy of XP. I have no possible way of running the XP CD unless there is a boot disk for the recovery console.


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