Re: SUSE 10 + WinXP was working, now nothing?!
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:10:50 -0700
m.wanstall@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all, this problem could be caused by any number of issues and I'm
getting a little frantic here so I'll list my whole morbid story from
the top, sorry in advance for the whole speal. :)
I got a new 200gb Seagate HD about a year back and hadn't needed it
installed until I was setting this box up as a testing box, and I had
noticed that the HD had a little rattle in it straight after I bought
it but I tested it as soon as I got home and it had worked fine.
About 2 months ago I installed Win XP Pro and then installed SUSE 10.0
using GRUB to handle my boot stuff. All has gone fine since then, both
OSes running smoothly until yesterday! When trying to run a newly
d/led copy of Zsnes Win version (yes I know, I wasn't "testing"
anything, just goofing off) I got the first Blue Screen of Death I've
had since installing the OS (unfortunately I didn't pay much attention
to it, it was some sort of kernel error, and I just rebooted). I tried
the same procedure again to see if it was the Zsnes exe causing this,
and it did the same thing. So I deleted the prog, got the dos version
of it, and went on my merry way. Next thing I did was download
Limewire (okay, so I wasn't in a working mood :P) and upon installing
it it hung and I got another BSoD...again, I rebooted and tried
reinstalling and the same issue, so I gave up with that too and by now
I'm starting to think something could be fishy.
Now, in the meantime my power supply's fan's motor had been sounding
like it was dying for some time and then I started to get these
mysterious reboots for no reason or no prompt (but once I thought I
saw a quick flash of a BSoD before the restart) and then finally the
power supply wouldn't turn on anymore, it just died.
So I dive into the computer, pull out the power supply, go and invest
in a new one, found my graphics card was getting really hot so I moved
the sound card that was wedged up against it's fan down a slot. After
ALL of this was done I started my comp up and success, it actually
started! BUT then I first try to log in to my WinXP boot and I get the
loading screen, then I wait for about 30 seconds and I get a quick
flash of the BSoD and then it reboots. NOW, the strange quirk is after
this reboot my BIOS won't even detect my HD, it just hangs at the
"detecting IDE drives" and then eventually skips to "Insert system
disk" stuff and it won't detect the disk until I switch the comp off
and on again, then it does the same thing, detects it once, reboots
and then nothing. So then I reboot the comp and try a few more times,
still nothing. Then I finally decide to login to SUSE so I can go in
search of answers on Google, and what?!?! Now Grub won't even load.
It's detecting the drive at BIOS and then going to the "Insert system
disk"...so I reached for the SUSE install DVD and booted up the
recovery console, then had no clue what to do, so I tried the WinXP
Recovery Console. Tried FIXMBR, it did nothing, didn't even say it
needed fixing or anything. Tried FIXBOOT, it said it can't do it.
Tried changing directories to see if I could directly open my
boot.ini, I can't, CD won't change to anything but C:\WINDOWS.
So now I am thoroughly all out of ideas. I need the stuff that's on
this HD so I can't just format it. Is there ANY hope for me?!?!
Since you replaced the power supply, you know that isn't the problem
although you've definitely got hardware problems. This has nothing to
do with either of the operating systems (software).
Take the hard drive with your data (and insert all the usual noises
about how you should have backed up previously) and slave it in another
machine. You can use Knoppix to get the data off or, if the hard drive
is just data and the other machine is running an NT-based Windows you
may be able to get the data that way. If the hard drive does not show
up in another machine, you should have listened to the Rattle Warning
because the only way to get data off a physically failed hard drive is
to send it to a professional data recovery firm. I like Drive Savers
(www.drivesavers.com).
Once you've got your data off the drive (or not), go back to the
original machine and start hardware testing. If the BIOS can see no
other drives, your motherboard has died.
Malke
--
It is very dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
.
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