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hawkeye · 03-05-2004, 06:14 AM

Here's My (homebuilt) system:
AMD Athlon XP2000 on a VIA motherboard
GeForce 4 (64m)
Audigy 1
1 G Corsair DDR PC3200 RAM
1 LG DVD +-R/RW RAM CD r/rw/rom
1 CD r/rw/rom
1 WD 80 G HD (slave)
1 SeaGate 200 G HD (master)
XP Pro (OEM)

(I purchased the Seagate, the ram, and XP last week from newegg)

Last night, when I came back to my room, there was an error message on my screen that said that trillian had to close because of a fatal error, and asking if I wanted to send an error report.
I clicked 'Don't Send' and my computer restarted. as I watched, it went thru the Post sequence, and as the XP logo flashed on the screen, it restarted. every time since, it has restarted either right before the XP logo flashes, or right as it does. I have tried booting from the XP install cd, but it gives me error code 7 and says that a file is not found. the only thing that has done anything at all is I have tried to boot off a norton systemworks 2002 cd, which has worked, but when I try to switch drives, it says that 'path or drive not found'.

please, I really need this computer, and I would like to save the data on it, I have about 60 g of stuff that I haven't backed up yet (just got the DVD r-s in the last couple of days and haven't had time yet.) (yes, I'm pathetic)

03-05-2004, 06:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
hawkeye back from sabbatical Location: Mosptopia	Massive XP rebooting problem Here's My (homebuilt) system: AMD Athlon XP2000 on a VIA motherboard GeForce 4 (64m) Audigy 1 1 G Corsair DDR PC3200 RAM 1 LG DVD +-R/RW RAM CD r/rw/rom 1 CD r/rw/rom 1 WD 80 G HD (slave) 1 SeaGate 200 G HD (master) XP Pro (OEM) (I purchased the Seagate, the ram, and XP last week from newegg) Last night, when I came back to my room, there was an error message on my screen that said that trillian had to close because of a fatal error, and asking if I wanted to send an error report. I clicked 'Don't Send' and my computer restarted. as I watched, it went thru the Post sequence, and as the XP logo flashed on the screen, it restarted. every time since, it has restarted either right before the XP logo flashes, or right as it does. I have tried booting from the XP install cd, but it gives me error code 7 and says that a file is not found. the only thing that has done anything at all is I have tried to boot off a norton systemworks 2002 cd, which has worked, but when I try to switch drives, it says that 'path or drive not found'. please, I really need this computer, and I would like to save the data on it, I have about 60 g of stuff that I haven't backed up yet (just got the DVD r-s in the last couple of days and haven't had time yet.) (yes, I'm pathetic) __________________ You're not fat, You're just a giant ball of love, covered in anger.