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alrite you guys are my last hope..
specs are on my sig and profile..
on thursday nite i was editing a video and exporting it to .mpg for a friend, and like any sort of export i had to leave it on to do its job (few hrs). Checked it again friday morning before i left for uni and it was still going, so i turned off the monitor and left. When i came back to check if it was finished yet i turned on the monitor and out came a plain black screen saying something on the lines of "Error loading OS".
So as you would do, poped in the winxp cd and boot up to recovery console thinking that either the hdd crashed again (which happend before, fixed by wipeing the partition with xp home and reloaded it again) or got some errors on the hdd.. so first i did a chkdisk /f and it scanned ok so i then typed in dir to get the directory list and it came out with my secondary hdd's contents for C:/. tried to change directory cause (maybe drive letters got mixed somehow), didnt get anywhere, so went into diskpart gui to see what its picking up and i got the 2nd hdd (as C:/), a whole lot of unknowns (which i assumed was the int. card reader). So i turned off etc and unplugged those, turned it back on and went to the cd boot, winxp installer says it cant find any hdd. restarted, went to bios and it dissapeared from the sata list..
by this stage i was thinking
a) hdd kaput
b) hdd had a heat stroke
c) dust or foreign object (found a dead spider on the bottom of the case.. scary...) caused something to have problem...
went and got the air compressor and gave it a good clean that was due for a while, and took out the hdd and had a good look, seemed ok, no irregular noises, proceed to boot it outside the case and it spun up, bios picks it up as well and proceeded to load windows and freezes on the win boot screen. restart the pc and went through safe mode with command prompt and it seems to get stuck with mup.sys.
by now hardware is at basic stage (vid, mobo+sound, hdd, ram, 1 dvd drive). used my laptop to google mup.sys and it mentions something about replaceing it or disabling it through recovery console.. in goes the winxp cd and it does that "inspecting hardware configuration" screen then flashes then nothing. 5 minutes later still blank screen...
and that is where i'm stumped.
the hdd has 3 partitions, 1: windows 20gb, 2: applications 30gb, 3: data 137gb. i did forsee windows crashing hence the three part setup for a quick recovery, but i didnt forsee a full hdd faliure, and hope to still be able to fix this short of a full hdd wipe, as like every other pc, has some vital and important data inside with hopes of recovery.. and the sad irony is that i was planning to ghost the data partition that day... (ran out of dvds)
other maybe usefull info to mention.. case temp hovers between 31`C to 46`C (or maybe a bit more, not too sure) which is kinda normal, thats with an open side pannel. psu turns out to be a no name (or a brand thats called "K"), 320w, although bios sensors give me normal voltages.. although that is soon going to be replaced by a Shaw 500w dual-fan low noise psu
specs are on my sig and profile..
on thursday nite i was editing a video and exporting it to .mpg for a friend, and like any sort of export i had to leave it on to do its job (few hrs). Checked it again friday morning before i left for uni and it was still going, so i turned off the monitor and left. When i came back to check if it was finished yet i turned on the monitor and out came a plain black screen saying something on the lines of "Error loading OS".
So as you would do, poped in the winxp cd and boot up to recovery console thinking that either the hdd crashed again (which happend before, fixed by wipeing the partition with xp home and reloaded it again) or got some errors on the hdd.. so first i did a chkdisk /f and it scanned ok so i then typed in dir to get the directory list and it came out with my secondary hdd's contents for C:/. tried to change directory cause (maybe drive letters got mixed somehow), didnt get anywhere, so went into diskpart gui to see what its picking up and i got the 2nd hdd (as C:/), a whole lot of unknowns (which i assumed was the int. card reader). So i turned off etc and unplugged those, turned it back on and went to the cd boot, winxp installer says it cant find any hdd. restarted, went to bios and it dissapeared from the sata list..
by this stage i was thinking
a) hdd kaput
b) hdd had a heat stroke
c) dust or foreign object (found a dead spider on the bottom of the case.. scary...) caused something to have problem...
went and got the air compressor and gave it a good clean that was due for a while, and took out the hdd and had a good look, seemed ok, no irregular noises, proceed to boot it outside the case and it spun up, bios picks it up as well and proceeded to load windows and freezes on the win boot screen. restart the pc and went through safe mode with command prompt and it seems to get stuck with mup.sys.
by now hardware is at basic stage (vid, mobo+sound, hdd, ram, 1 dvd drive). used my laptop to google mup.sys and it mentions something about replaceing it or disabling it through recovery console.. in goes the winxp cd and it does that "inspecting hardware configuration" screen then flashes then nothing. 5 minutes later still blank screen...
and that is where i'm stumped.
the hdd has 3 partitions, 1: windows 20gb, 2: applications 30gb, 3: data 137gb. i did forsee windows crashing hence the three part setup for a quick recovery, but i didnt forsee a full hdd faliure, and hope to still be able to fix this short of a full hdd wipe, as like every other pc, has some vital and important data inside with hopes of recovery.. and the sad irony is that i was planning to ghost the data partition that day... (ran out of dvds)
other maybe usefull info to mention.. case temp hovers between 31`C to 46`C (or maybe a bit more, not too sure) which is kinda normal, thats with an open side pannel. psu turns out to be a no name (or a brand thats called "K"), 320w, although bios sensors give me normal voltages.. although that is soon going to be replaced by a Shaw 500w dual-fan low noise psu
just need to know what i need to purchase before i go to the shops
