Hello. thank you for taking the time to read this long post I consider myself above average when it comes to Windows but I'm out of ideas short of reinstalling XP over itself and I can't download the SATA drivers I need right now.
I had my system restart due to a Software Update. When it came back it was stuck in a reboot cycle. The splash screen would occur then it would reboot. I had this happen on a 2003 Server a few months ago. On that system the update corruped something on the hard drive. I was able to use a BartPE cd to run chkdsk and it fixed everything.
I tried that same procedue but because I didn't have the right SATA drivers on the BartCD it wouldn't see the drive.
I then took the drive out of the system it was in and moved it to one of my 2K3 servers. I was able to boot the server and run chkdsk on the SATA drive. It found many errors but fixed them all.
I then put the SATA drive back in the original PC.
Now when I boot I can not log in. As soon as I touch any key on the keyboard the computer locks hard. I can boot into safe mode command prompt only but not regular safemode. If I boot into Safemode Command Prompt Only and try to start the GUI by typing EXPLORER I get a BSOD with a stop message that goes away too quickly to write down.
The motherboard is an ASUS A7V600
I had my system restart due to a Software Update. When it came back it was stuck in a reboot cycle. The splash screen would occur then it would reboot. I had this happen on a 2003 Server a few months ago. On that system the update corruped something on the hard drive. I was able to use a BartPE cd to run chkdsk and it fixed everything.
I tried that same procedue but because I didn't have the right SATA drivers on the BartCD it wouldn't see the drive.
I then took the drive out of the system it was in and moved it to one of my 2K3 servers. I was able to boot the server and run chkdsk on the SATA drive. It found many errors but fixed them all.
I then put the SATA drive back in the original PC.
Now when I boot I can not log in. As soon as I touch any key on the keyboard the computer locks hard. I can boot into safe mode command prompt only but not regular safemode. If I boot into Safemode Command Prompt Only and try to start the GUI by typing EXPLORER I get a BSOD with a stop message that goes away too quickly to write down.
The motherboard is an ASUS A7V600