Hello, I'm new to the forums and I hope you can help me. About 6 weeks ago I built my
first custom PC, here are the specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66Ghz
ASUS P5N-E SLI Motherboard
Corsair 2GB RAM 800Mhz (1GB x 2)
XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB GPU
Antec EarthWatts 500W PSU
Windows XP Professional
The PC was running fine until a few weeks ago, I got a blue screen while I was using Firefox. This happened a few times and I could restart the PC and it would be fine. At first I ignored it but it happened again, the PC would restart when Windows loaded up and do this a few times until it would be stable so to speak.
Today the same thing happened when I switched on the PC so I let it restart and choose Last Known Good Configuration, it was running fine for a while until I got another blue screen which looked like a 0x07, the PC restarted and I got the message Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk and Press Enter.
I don't have a floppy drive so I can't boot via floppy so I went into BIOS to set CD as first boot priority when I realized that none of my devices were detected in BIOS. I have a SATA DVD drive and Hard Drive but they weren't showing in BIOS.
I tried using a HD from my old PC with Windows on it. BIOS detected it under Primary IDE and when I tried to load it I got a boot screen with Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking etc. I tried Start Windows Normally, Safe Mode, Safe with Networking and Last Known Good Configuration but each time I would get a brief blue screen and the PC would restart immediately.
Your help would be appreciated, please let me know if there is anything else you need to know.
first custom PC, here are the specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66Ghz
ASUS P5N-E SLI Motherboard
Corsair 2GB RAM 800Mhz (1GB x 2)
XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB GPU
Antec EarthWatts 500W PSU
Windows XP Professional
The PC was running fine until a few weeks ago, I got a blue screen while I was using Firefox. This happened a few times and I could restart the PC and it would be fine. At first I ignored it but it happened again, the PC would restart when Windows loaded up and do this a few times until it would be stable so to speak.
Today the same thing happened when I switched on the PC so I let it restart and choose Last Known Good Configuration, it was running fine for a while until I got another blue screen which looked like a 0x07, the PC restarted and I got the message Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk and Press Enter.
I don't have a floppy drive so I can't boot via floppy so I went into BIOS to set CD as first boot priority when I realized that none of my devices were detected in BIOS. I have a SATA DVD drive and Hard Drive but they weren't showing in BIOS.
I tried using a HD from my old PC with Windows on it. BIOS detected it under Primary IDE and when I tried to load it I got a boot screen with Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking etc. I tried Start Windows Normally, Safe Mode, Safe with Networking and Last Known Good Configuration but each time I would get a brief blue screen and the PC would restart immediately.
Your help would be appreciated, please let me know if there is anything else you need to know.