XP Will Not Load
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From: KenP on 6 Apr 2010 17:08 Dell Dimension PC w/Win XP Pro - Started getting msg bout hard disk failure on startup. Ran diagnostics and rec'd error code indicating drive was failing. Purchased and installed new WD Cav Blue drive. Drive has Zip Drive on same cable. Tried all kinds of combos. Removed zip, reset jumpers and still XP will not load. Initial blue screen comes up indicating set up is checking configuration then screen goes black and that's it. Thought it mite be cause new drive not partitioned so put drive in another PC w/same XP O/S cd and it installed and loaded w/o problem. Then put in original PC and no can read error comes up. Have talked w/WDC T/S and they say it not drive and I agree. I've changed cables tween HD and MB with no diff results. Two or three hairs short of hairless. Any help will be greatly appreciated. KenP
From: philo on 6 Apr 2010 17:14 KenP wrote: > Dell Dimension PC w/Win XP Pro - Started getting msg bout hard disk failure > on startup. Ran diagnostics and rec'd error code indicating drive was > failing. > > Purchased and installed new WD Cav Blue drive. Drive has Zip Drive on same > cable. Tried all kinds of combos. Removed zip, reset jumpers and still XP > will not load. Initial blue screen comes up indicating set up is checking > configuration then screen goes black and that's it. > > Thought it mite be cause new drive not partitioned so put drive in another > PC w/same XP O/S cd and it installed and loaded w/o problem. Then put in > original PC and no can read error comes up. > > Have talked w/WDC T/S and they say it not drive and I agree. I've changed > cables tween HD and MB with no diff results. > > Two or three hairs short of hairless. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > KenP run a ram test
From: sgopus on 6 Apr 2010 17:43 This sounds more of a hardware question than xp general, try that group instead. "KenP" wrote: > Dell Dimension PC w/Win XP Pro - Started getting msg bout hard disk failure > on startup. Ran diagnostics and rec'd error code indicating drive was > failing. > > Purchased and installed new WD Cav Blue drive. Drive has Zip Drive on same > cable. Tried all kinds of combos. Removed zip, reset jumpers and still XP > will not load. Initial blue screen comes up indicating set up is checking > configuration then screen goes black and that's it. > > Thought it mite be cause new drive not partitioned so put drive in another > PC w/same XP O/S cd and it installed and loaded w/o problem. Then put in > original PC and no can read error comes up. > > Have talked w/WDC T/S and they say it not drive and I agree. I've changed > cables tween HD and MB with no diff results. > > Two or three hairs short of hairless. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > KenP
From: LVTravel on 6 Apr 2010 21:09 "KenP" <KenP(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:050F306C-D098-48EB-910F-374B27081BF7(a)microsoft.com... > Dell Dimension PC w/Win XP Pro - Started getting msg bout hard disk > failure > on startup. Ran diagnostics and rec'd error code indicating drive was > failing. > > Purchased and installed new WD Cav Blue drive. Drive has Zip Drive on same > cable. Tried all kinds of combos. Removed zip, reset jumpers and still XP > will not load. Initial blue screen comes up indicating set up is checking > configuration then screen goes black and that's it. > > Thought it mite be cause new drive not partitioned so put drive in another > PC w/same XP O/S cd and it installed and loaded w/o problem. Then put in > original PC and no can read error comes up. > > Have talked w/WDC T/S and they say it not drive and I agree. I've changed > cables tween HD and MB with no diff results. > > Two or three hairs short of hairless. Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > KenP The old Zip drive must be set as the slave device on the EIDE (PATA) cable and the WD drive must be set as Master with Slave present. The old Iomega Zip drives had a tendency to cause issues if they were set to cable select so ensure that the drives jumpers are set correctly. I know the new WD drive has instructions on the top of the drive for the jumper positions. I can't remember if the Zip drive does but IIRC the slave position is the middle of the three positions on the jumper block between the power connector and the data cable connector. Let us know if this helps.
From: Jose on 7 Apr 2010 10:48 On Apr 6, 5:14 pm, philo <ph...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > KenP wrote: > > Dell Dimension PC w/Win XP Pro - Started getting msg bout hard disk failure > > on startup. Ran diagnostics and rec'd error code indicating drive was > > failing. > > > Purchased and installed new WD Cav Blue drive. Drive has Zip Drive on same > > cable. Tried all kinds of combos. Removed zip, reset jumpers and still XP > > will not load. Initial blue screen comes up indicating set up is checking > > configuration then screen goes black and that's it. > > > Thought it mite be cause new drive not partitioned so put drive in another > > PC w/same XP O/S cd and it installed and loaded w/o problem. Then put in > > original PC and no can read error comes up. > > > Have talked w/WDC T/S and they say it not drive and I agree. I've changed > > cables tween HD and MB with no diff results. > > > Two or three hairs short of hairless. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > KenP > > run a ram test Have you reduced things down to just the minimum components to achieve the most basic configuration possible? One HDD, one motherboard, one cable (and power of course) and nothing else (remove the ZIP drive or any other drive entirely from the equation). Concentrate your efforts on getting that simple configuration working first, then start adding your other stuff back one thing at a time. Do not waste time just trying things. What does the the "no can read error" really say or does it say "no can read"? If you decide you want to run a RAM test, maybe you would like to also know how to do it: Run a test of your RAM with memtest86+ (I know it is boring and will cost you a CD). Memtest86+ is a more up to date version of the old memtest program and they are not the same. The memtest86+ will not run under Windows, so you will need to download the ISO file and create a bootable CD, boot on that and then run the memtest86+ program. If even a single error is reported that is a failure and should make you suspicious of your RAM. If you have multiple sticks of RAM you may need to run the test on them one at a time and change them out to isolate the failure to a particular single stick. Always keep at least the first bank of RAM occupied so the test will find something to do and there is enough to boot your system. Sometimes, reseating the RAM in the slots will relieve the error but a failure is still cause for suspicion. The file and instructions are here: http://www.memtest.org/ If someone says to run memtest86, you can say that you know memtest86+ supercedes memtest86 and here's why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86
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