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Massive system screwy-ness [solved]


Urza9814
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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?

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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...

 

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.

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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-0000:00:10.0-1

usbcore: 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.

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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.

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