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tauripip · May 29th, 2004, 05:36 AM

Hi,
I am hopin there is a genius who will be able to assist me, here goes with the long sad story :-

Had the dreaded missing NTDR missing problem, the only way we over come this was to litterally make 2pcs out of 3 using motherboard (good and working fine) from one and an old 10gb hard drive from another. Anyway to cut along story short the "new" pc installed windows xp pro fine and was up and running for a short while. Then it would not get past the initial boot up sequence, solved this problem with a new CMOS battery, put in a new one of these and pc booted up straight away and ran great, only problem was there was no on-board sound. No problem installed a new Phillips sound card............now this is where problem starts,

installed the sound card, pc found new hardware.....turned off on board sound card in BIOS as directed in installation manual supplied by Phillips, this went OK, then installed the new sound card drivers from the supplied disk.again this went thru ok and then it had to restart..............and now it wont get past loading xp on startup. It gets to the stage of the loading lights running under the xp pro logo and it wont go any further, the screen stays at this stage, doesnt go black as alot of other people seem to have a problem with, just hangs at this stage. I have checked all the connections etc and everything is ok.
Seeing as there wasnt much on the hard drive to worry about i thought ok, we'll just reinstall xp again, altered the BIOS to boot from CRROM drive first, the pc recognises this and will try and get me to press any key to boot from CD but i have tried 3 keyboards to try and get it to actually realize i am pressing any key but it will NOT boot from the CD as it wont recognise that i have pressed any key. (Thought it may be that the keyboard with this pc as it is a cordless one so tried the keyboard i am using to type this [plug in] but no luck tried another keyboard and still same problem).

Thought it cant be the keyboard any way as it works fine in changing the BIOS so PC recognises the keyboard at this stage.

Right have gone on enough now and the depression is setting in all over

again

So please someone out there must have some suggestions for me to try (not the suggestion of chucking the thing out the window as i've come close to doing this already).

Let me know if you have any brain waves, i'm off to take the anti depressants this blasted pc has left me relying on.

Thanks in advance for any help
tauripip
tauripip@aol.com

May 29th, 2004, 05:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
tauripip Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 30	PC WONT BOOT PAST XP LOADING SCREEN Hi, I am hopin there is a genius who will be able to assist me, here goes with the long sad story :- Had the dreaded missing NTDR missing problem, the only way we over come this was to litterally make 2pcs out of 3 using motherboard (good and working fine) from one and an old 10gb hard drive from another. Anyway to cut along story short the "new" pc installed windows xp pro fine and was up and running for a short while. Then it would not get past the initial boot up sequence, solved this problem with a new CMOS battery, put in a new one of these and pc booted up straight away and ran great, only problem was there was no on-board sound. No problem installed a new Phillips sound card............now this is where problem starts, installed the sound card, pc found new hardware.....turned off on board sound card in BIOS as directed in installation manual supplied by Phillips, this went OK, then installed the new sound card drivers from the supplied disk.again this went thru ok and then it had to restart..............and now it wont get past loading xp on startup. It gets to the stage of the loading lights running under the xp pro logo and it wont go any further, the screen stays at this stage, doesnt go black as alot of other people seem to have a problem with, just hangs at this stage. I have checked all the connections etc and everything is ok. Seeing as there wasnt much on the hard drive to worry about i thought ok, we'll just reinstall xp again, altered the BIOS to boot from CRROM drive first, the pc recognises this and will try and get me to press any key to boot from CD but i have tried 3 keyboards to try and get it to actually realize i am pressing any key but it will NOT boot from the CD as it wont recognise that i have pressed any key. (Thought it may be that the keyboard with this pc as it is a cordless one so tried the keyboard i am using to type this [plug in] but no luck tried another keyboard and still same problem). Thought it cant be the keyboard any way as it works fine in changing the BIOS so PC recognises the keyboard at this stage. Right have gone on enough now and the depression is setting in all over again So please someone out there must have some suggestions for me to try (not the suggestion of chucking the thing out the window as i've come close to doing this already). Let me know if you have any brain waves, i'm off to take the anti depressants this blasted pc has left me relying on. Thanks in advance for any help tauripip tauripip@aol.com