Sorry for the delay in reply, I've been a little under the weather. Yes, the computer does finish the boot normally. Without the one minute...
My puter has this problem; I get the bios startup screen, then the Windows splash screen......................................and then a blank...
I realise that this thread is sorta old but....You could also have done a cntrl-alt-del and opened task manager, and looked under Processes tab,...
Ha!! I didn't think there was anyone older than me out there!!! But it kinda bums me out that I don't know exactly what the problem was, and...
Hurrah, it's back. not sure what I did, I fiddles with a number of device settings in the bios, ran XXclone , etc. Hooked it back up, booted to XP...
Ya know, I can reload all that stuff, and save what I need from my archives, but it chaps my butt to not be able to find out why this happened and...
Seems to me, if the 200GB drive boots ok, no bsod, and the 74GB blue screens only after the proggy I loaded on it, then the program install messed...
In the version of XXClone I DL'd, "Write MBR ", and "Write Boot Sector" are under the Cool Tools tab. And I did that. Now the bios recognizes...
Not having ever seen this proggie (and I just DL'ed it) can you give me some idea as to how to go about it, or is it fairly obvious?
ACPI BSOD gone, hdd woes remain. Regretably, there are no clones. Both drives are sata, so switching drives is easy, I just set the 200 as my...
I did turn it back on. I always load a bootable copy of windows on all hdd's, so I can boot into the 2nd hdd ok, tho a lot of the drivers are...
Also, the hdd no longer shows up in the bios, it's gone. Only the 2nd drive is listed. The master boot record is gone, maybe?
Did that Bill, I turned off the ACPI complience under bios, but 'puter wouldn't boot at all, only started to load drivers and locked up. I have 2...
I got this program called "Intervideo Windvd Suite" with my new Asus A8N32 Mobo. My system was running fine, no problems. Had been running for...
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