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| Thread ID: 118415 | 2011-06-03 05:31:00 | Constant BOOTFAIL and POST interrupt | DarkFather (16402) | Press F1 |
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| 1206662 | 2011-06-10 04:48:00 | In my experience, and according to Microsoft, Drivers are 99% of the time responsible for BSOD, not memory...If you have memory issue, this normal appears as computer freeze\lockup...... Do you allow Windows to update your drivers for components?.... Everything that needs drivers is installed from the manufactures website or disk. My graphics card, audio card, chipset, etc. Most everything I get the newest drivers when I install. Now, are you speaking of the "Optional hardware updates" in Windows update? Because I never have installed those, there are 7 of them usually. I have been told the optional ones can be wrong. |
DarkFather (16402) | ||
| 1206663 | 2011-06-10 05:23:00 | Everything that needs drivers is installed from the manufactures website or disk. My graphics card, audio card, chipset, etc. Most everything I get the newest drivers when I install. Now, are you speaking of the "Optional hardware updates" in Windows update? Because I never have installed those, there are 7 of them usually. I have been told the optional ones can be wrong. Yes, the hardware driver updates....The Windows driver can screw things up for a gamer, however it could be worth a shot looking at using Update for the drivers.....I only glanced at the thread, did you find any info regarding the BSOD? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1206664 | 2011-06-10 05:36:00 | As far as the battery. I will have to figure out where to buy one. the CMOS batt is usually fairly generic & cheap. Even most supermarkets have them. I got one from a car parts shop !! Heres the link for tdsskiller. Rootkit infections arnt very common (ive only seen it twice) but can be very hard to detect. support.kaspersky.com malwarebytes (spyware scanner) this is very good & free. You need to make sure that the issues arent caused by infections. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ It may also pay to make a image of that basic/minimal XP install & burn to DVD. Just in case. could save you alot of wasted time later. MaxBlast is very good for that, its free from seagate. Or the WD equivalent. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1206665 | 2011-06-10 05:59:00 | the CMOS batt is usually fairly generic & cheap. Even most supermarkets have them. I got one from a car parts shop !! Heres the link for tdsskiller. Rootkit infections arnt very common (ive only seen it twice) but can be very hard to detect. support.kaspersky.com malwarebytes (spyware scanner) this is very good & free. You need to make sure that the issues arent caused by infections. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ It may also pay to make a image of that basic/minimal XP install & burn to DVD. Just in case. could save you alot of wasted time later. MaxBlast is very good for that, its free from seagate. Or the WD equivalent. I fully scanned both my other internal drives with malwarebytes. 9 threats were found on the second drive, 7 of them were from Keygen's that I have not used in ages or since this trouble began, so that clears them as being any cause. But, 2 of them were in the system volume information\_restore section. If I am not wrong, this could be what keeps infecting my new installs since it has infected the restore section of that HD and could be infecting my new install when I use that drive? One is Trojan.Dropper.PGen the other is a PUP.Hacktool.Patcher. I have been wanting to do an image so I dont have to keep doing this. I will look into MaxBlast. The one thing I am unclear on is if it makes a full exact copy of your drive including all Windows and Registry files, or just some files? |
DarkFather (16402) | ||
| 1206666 | 2011-06-10 07:03:00 | It copies everything unless you tell it otherwise. The forum rules are against keygens and cracks of any sort though |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1206667 | 2011-06-10 07:12:00 | It copies everything unless you tell it otherwise. The forum rules are against keygens and cracks of any sort though Ok, i'll try it. Haven't used any keygens, not in the past few installs anyway. They were just setting there, those programs were old and had not been used in ages. I deleted them anyway after the scan. |
DarkFather (16402) | ||
| 1206668 | 2011-06-10 10:40:00 | Maxblast images you whole hard drive to dvd or another HD. An exact copy of the whole thing is the easiest option Maxblast also has the option of making a Bootable CD, you'll need that as well to use to recover with. If it complains that you havnt got a Seagate HD, HIT 'alt T', 'Alt O' (Tech Overide) at that message. The stuff in your system restore is probly just old stuff. It wont be causing you problems. AntiSpyware programs REALLY dont like keygens, but its only finding the keygen & not infected win/system/program files etc then its ALL OK. good luck |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 1206669 | 2011-06-17 18:02:00 | So, in doing some research on my setup it seems my PC has been running my Hard Drives as IDE ever since I built this PC nearly 4 years ago now. ALl my hard drives are SATA. How do I go about getting them to read as SATA now, especially after all this time? Which drivers do I need? Maybe this is part of the cause of my trouble recently? | DarkFather (16402) | ||
| 1206670 | 2011-06-17 21:16:00 | You have to enable AHCI in the BIOS . And you need SATA drivers (from the mobo site) However, if you're using XP, you shouldnt enable AHCI in the BIOS now, or the system will crash, the next time you boot it up . You usually install SATA drivers during the install of windows (with XP anyway - Or the SATA drivers need to be slipstreamed on an XP cd) . Vista and Windows 7 install basic SATA drivers . And AHCI should be enabled in the BIOS before you install windows Having it on IDE mode or SATA wouldnt cause corrupt files tho Looks like this mobo uses Silicon Image SATA drivers ( . asus . com/Download . aspx?SLanguage=en&m=M2N32-SLI+Deluxe&p=1&s=24" target="_blank">support . asus . com) . Change it to XP . They're under IDE |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1206671 | 2011-06-17 21:34:00 | You have to enable AHCI in the BIOS . And you need SATA drivers (from the mobo site) However, if you're using XP, you shouldnt enable AHCI in the BIOS now, or the system will crash, the next time you boot it up . You usually install SATA drivers during the install of windows (with XP anyway - Or the SATA drivers need to be slipstreamed on an XP cd) . Vista and Windows 7 install basic SATA drivers . And AHCI should be enabled in the BIOS before you install windows Having it on IDE mode or SATA wouldnt cause corrupt files tho Looks like this mobo uses Silicon Image SATA drivers ( . asus . com/Download . aspx?SLanguage=en&m=M2N32-SLI+Deluxe&p=1&s=24" target="_blank">support . asus . com) . Change it to XP . They're under IDE Yes, I downloaded those drivers and created the floppy disk to install them . However, do I need to reinstall Windows (again) and install them during the install with F6 when prompted to? The thing is, I have always just installed Windows without ever installing the SATA/Raid drivers because I thought they were part of Windows XP Pro . I guess my SATA drives have always run under IDE without me ever even knowing . You are sure this wouldn't be causing any issues? Could installing the SATA drivers increase my performance as well? The Slipstream with NLite is a bit confusing because my XP Pro disk is only SP1 but all instructions I find are for SP3 . Do I not need to make the slipstream include SP2 and SP3? Can the Slipstream also include the Chipset drivers? |
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