iphitus Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 If you can get to a usable terminal, see if there are any errors in your dmesg log. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Well, I ran the PowerMax utility...found nothing. I swapped the IDE cables...no luck I took another drive from an old comp, did a low-level format, installed windoze...put it in this comp, and it won't boot at all. Can't boot from the CD, can't get into the BIOS. What bothers me about that is this HDD seems to run fine (well, except the few screwy things I've mentioned)...so...why would a 200GB run and a 15GB not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monolith Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 I would say its a ram problem try reinserting it (if it was fine before) then run memtest from a bootable floppy, I had all sorts of weird errors because of incorrectly inserted ram(explorer crashing and a messagebox coming up saying just "error") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 (edited) then run memtest from a bootable floppy ...yea...small problem there...I believe I fried my floppy controller :S I've got this EVEREST program though...it's got some RAM tests...dunno if it's any good though...just DLed it a few days ago to try to figure this thing out, turns out the only real tests it have appear to be RAM... Â edit: Well, turns out the EVEREST tests are just benchmarks...none of which I seemed to do too good on... I opened it up, and did discover that the RAM was in the DDR3 slot, but moving it over didn't help at all. Edited May 29, 2005 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 You can get memtest on a bootable cd. You'll find it on the "ultimate boot cd" along with many other nice tools: Â http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 I DLed it, but Nero won't burn it. Gives me an 'Invalid field in command' error... :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 ultimate boot cd very nice.................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 memtest is on knoppix too. Â Â ill ask again! did you check your dmesg logs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 ill ask again! did you check your dmesg logs? ...and those would be where? :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 /var/log/dmesg  You need to be root to read the dmesg log. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 (edited) anything specific I should be looking for here? It all looks ok to me...but...since I don't really understand half of it and don't know what to look for...and it's really big...  this is ok, right? 0MB HIGHMEM available.512MB LOWMEM available. ooh...this is bad...I think...'cause my mouse is USB: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice but wait...later it says... input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:10.0-1usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x3B11 usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver  ...im a bit confused....lol no major errors though it appears. Edited May 30, 2005 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 Well, it appears my CD-Rom drive, of all things, was the problem. Got new drives today, and I can now go to 'My Computer' with no problems. Hopefully the rest will work OK too. Still having problems, look like IDE controller problems, but that's for a different topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 the cd-rom was the troublemaker? wow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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