Heya.
My PC just stopped dead one day and I've had no luck restoring it.
The PC goes through the BIOS, POST, hangs at detecting IDE drives and then goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner.
I've been able to boot to my XP install cd and then select 'repair' but when it gets to 'starting windows' I get a blue screen with the error 'page_fault_in_nonpaged_area' and it mentions 'partmgr.sys'.
I've swapped out RAM, the floppy drive, the HDD, the ribbon cables. No change.
I've been able to boot from a floppy but *only* if the HDD isn't connected even though I've set the floppy to boot first.
Another thing I've noticed is that once in a while when it's detecting the Drives it won't detect the HDD unless I go into the BIOS and manually have it autodetect it.
I'm going crazy here. Any ideas?
My PC just stopped dead one day and I've had no luck restoring it.
The PC goes through the BIOS, POST, hangs at detecting IDE drives and then goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner.
I've been able to boot to my XP install cd and then select 'repair' but when it gets to 'starting windows' I get a blue screen with the error 'page_fault_in_nonpaged_area' and it mentions 'partmgr.sys'.
I've swapped out RAM, the floppy drive, the HDD, the ribbon cables. No change.
I've been able to boot from a floppy but *only* if the HDD isn't connected even though I've set the floppy to boot first.
Another thing I've noticed is that once in a while when it's detecting the Drives it won't detect the HDD unless I go into the BIOS and manually have it autodetect it.
I'm going crazy here. Any ideas?