Computer is stalling on start up at the detecting IDE drives line on start up!
I haven't done anything to it and just wont start.
Any ideas?
Kiwi back at home!
Computer is stalling on start up at the detecting IDE drives line on start up!
I haven't done anything to it and just wont start.
Any ideas?
Pansy-Twin
Possibly your hard drive has died, or the connector just needs a wiggle. Im sure someone local will be able to have a look.
Weekend cruiser
LOL Speedie, nice one
Look Ma, no hands hehehe
buy a new computer....... with a new monitor...
and I will take your old one off ya hands.... for parts for mine... (need a new monitor as well.. )
fuckin grumpy leave me alone
Originally Posted by sAsLEX
Alex,
do you want me to come and have a look at it for you ?
F/F
"Kiwi Biker, still a great place despite the mods "
"Would crawl over broken glass before owning Suzuki"
The only reason I only ride in the Iron man Class is I have no friends left to enter the two man events,
my own fault really.
Look Ma, no hands hehehe
Shit dont let F/F near your comp... he even looses photos (in the gallery section) from his computer...
(pt)
Need new round thangs!
Sounds like a dead hdd (unless you added a new one).
listen closly to it, can you hear it? is it clunking?
also if theres anything important on it, dont touch it as that could destroy it more, get someone to try and retreive your data
Hopefully for your sake its just an error for some reason
1990 Suzuki Bandit GSF 250 for sale 39k kms $3,500
Kiwi back at home!
No unusual noises thank god, HDD is getting on a bit though.
Forum whore
Got to computer store. Buy a can of compressed air (don't use a vacuum cleaner on blow. MASSIVE static charge).
Open PC up. Pull all cable and power connectors off. Blow air up the arse of every connector. Blast your CPU HeatSink fan unit.
Carefully and firmly replug everything.
If it still does it. Pull the power out of the CD drive (or DVD drive, OR burner, or whatever) and reboot. If it starts OK your Optical drive is ferked.
If it still doesn't start, open her up, pull the power out of your HDD. If it races through to a prompt saying unable to find ntloader (or something) than your HDD is on the way out.
Now listen very carefully: pay someone to duplicate, image, or migrate your disk contents to a new drive.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Kiwi back at home!
Could I use Contact Cleaner instead of compressed air? Got plenty of that at home....
The 2nd-most bad arse KBer.
Just stick a plaster on it.
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
Every Day im Shuffling Shuffli
probly not a good idea.
you havent got a non bootable cd in the cd rom by any chance have you?
Kiwi back at home!
nah checked that
battlefield dvd is prob in one of the drives but that aint bootable and has been in there for over a year basically
Need new round thangs!
so long as its the type of contact cleaner that completly evaporates a second or two after spraying it on, we use it at work all the time but its not cheap $30 a can at a company price rate....
If it were me id take it out and put it in one of my other machines, get someone that knows what they're doing to take a look at it for you - if I was in aucks i'd be there now
1990 Suzuki Bandit GSF 250 for sale 39k kms $3,500
Kiwi back at home!
I dont pay for it hence thought it would be easier to use than finding somewhere to buy compressed air
Was also thinking I could install linux on my other hdd, but will try the cleaning things first, as it prob doesn't have much space on it at present.
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