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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
Do you have a bootable CD you can try? At least you might be able to
see if it will boot from a CD. Does the external USB case have a power brick? As people have stated the harddrive may be drawing to much power. As somebody whom is going through the process of reloading WinXP Pro and programs because he could not get corrupted video drivers straightened up I can understand why you do not want to reformat and reload. And maybe the power requirements of the new video card is stressing the computer's PSU. -- Bill Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
Do you have a bootable CD you can try? At least you might be able to
see if it will boot from a CD. Does the external USB case have a power brick? As people have stated the harddrive may be drawing to much power. As somebody whom is going through the process of reloading WinXP Pro and programs because he could not get corrupted video drivers straightened up I can understand why you do not want to reformat and reload. And maybe the power requirements of the new video card is stressing the computer's PSU. -- Bill Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
It turns out this drive causes any Windows XP or 2000 computer to crash. I
tried it as a secondary/slave drive on several desktops and on the USB enclosure on laptops and they all instantly crashed when they detected the USB drive, or BSOD if it was installed. I value my data on my Vista machine too much to try that. I downloaded the Western Digital diagnostics onto a bootable CD, installed only the suspect drive in a computer, and it ran and passed with an error code of 0000, which means no errors! My next effort to recover the data on the drive was to create a set of WinXP bootup floppies and was able to start a chkdsk /f before I left, which should be complete when I get back. Meanwhile the computer which developed the problem now has a new hard drive and Windows XP, but it did on one occasion right after install have the same BSOD as before with the ntfs.sys error but then it rebooted OK, and seems to have no problems now. To answer some other questions: When I tried to do a repair with the XP CD as soon as I chose R for repair, it crashed BSOD. The USB external case has separate power. The drive crashed the original PC with only the drive and nothing else, on-board LAN, etc, no other drives or cards, so it can't be power issues. Other USB devices do not crash the PC with the new drive. The external drive bay works on the other machines, unless it has the suspect drive in it, so that rules the bay out. I haven't tried the Linux boot CD. The new AGP card is working on the new drive. There should not have been any malware on the drive as antivirus was up to date and just finished the latest Windows and Office updates. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
It turns out this drive causes any Windows XP or 2000 computer to crash. I
tried it as a secondary/slave drive on several desktops and on the USB enclosure on laptops and they all instantly crashed when they detected the USB drive, or BSOD if it was installed. I value my data on my Vista machine too much to try that. I downloaded the Western Digital diagnostics onto a bootable CD, installed only the suspect drive in a computer, and it ran and passed with an error code of 0000, which means no errors! My next effort to recover the data on the drive was to create a set of WinXP bootup floppies and was able to start a chkdsk /f before I left, which should be complete when I get back. Meanwhile the computer which developed the problem now has a new hard drive and Windows XP, but it did on one occasion right after install have the same BSOD as before with the ntfs.sys error but then it rebooted OK, and seems to have no problems now. To answer some other questions: When I tried to do a repair with the XP CD as soon as I chose R for repair, it crashed BSOD. The USB external case has separate power. The drive crashed the original PC with only the drive and nothing else, on-board LAN, etc, no other drives or cards, so it can't be power issues. Other USB devices do not crash the PC with the new drive. The external drive bay works on the other machines, unless it has the suspect drive in it, so that rules the bay out. I haven't tried the Linux boot CD. The new AGP card is working on the new drive. There should not have been any malware on the drive as antivirus was up to date and just finished the latest Windows and Office updates. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
The chkdsk was run on the wrong disk - my friend was trying something else!
So I put the bad disk back in the machine and booted with the 6 XP boot floppies to run the chkdsk. It crashed as soon as I chose R for repair. I ran the extensive Western Digital diagnostics from a floppy and it reported no errors. After trying every possible way to get to read this disk I have given up - it is still under warranty and I have an RMA to return it. The data is history. Unless someone knows a good piece of recovery software that won't crash the computer as soon as it detects the drive... so far only the Western Digital software hasn't crashed. Mich "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... It turns out this drive causes any Windows XP or 2000 computer to crash. I tried it as a secondary/slave drive on several desktops and on the USB enclosure on laptops and they all instantly crashed when they detected the USB drive, or BSOD if it was installed. I value my data on my Vista machine too much to try that. I downloaded the Western Digital diagnostics onto a bootable CD, installed only the suspect drive in a computer, and it ran and passed with an error code of 0000, which means no errors! My next effort to recover the data on the drive was to create a set of WinXP bootup floppies and was able to start a chkdsk /f before I left, which should be complete when I get back. Meanwhile the computer which developed the problem now has a new hard drive and Windows XP, but it did on one occasion right after install have the same BSOD as before with the ntfs.sys error but then it rebooted OK, and seems to have no problems now. To answer some other questions: When I tried to do a repair with the XP CD as soon as I chose R for repair, it crashed BSOD. The USB external case has separate power. The drive crashed the original PC with only the drive and nothing else, on-board LAN, etc, no other drives or cards, so it can't be power issues. Other USB devices do not crash the PC with the new drive. The external drive bay works on the other machines, unless it has the suspect drive in it, so that rules the bay out. I haven't tried the Linux boot CD. The new AGP card is working on the new drive. There should not have been any malware on the drive as antivirus was up to date and just finished the latest Windows and Office updates. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
The chkdsk was run on the wrong disk - my friend was trying something else!
So I put the bad disk back in the machine and booted with the 6 XP boot floppies to run the chkdsk. It crashed as soon as I chose R for repair. I ran the extensive Western Digital diagnostics from a floppy and it reported no errors. After trying every possible way to get to read this disk I have given up - it is still under warranty and I have an RMA to return it. The data is history. Unless someone knows a good piece of recovery software that won't crash the computer as soon as it detects the drive... so far only the Western Digital software hasn't crashed. Mich "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... It turns out this drive causes any Windows XP or 2000 computer to crash. I tried it as a secondary/slave drive on several desktops and on the USB enclosure on laptops and they all instantly crashed when they detected the USB drive, or BSOD if it was installed. I value my data on my Vista machine too much to try that. I downloaded the Western Digital diagnostics onto a bootable CD, installed only the suspect drive in a computer, and it ran and passed with an error code of 0000, which means no errors! My next effort to recover the data on the drive was to create a set of WinXP bootup floppies and was able to start a chkdsk /f before I left, which should be complete when I get back. Meanwhile the computer which developed the problem now has a new hard drive and Windows XP, but it did on one occasion right after install have the same BSOD as before with the ntfs.sys error but then it rebooted OK, and seems to have no problems now. To answer some other questions: When I tried to do a repair with the XP CD as soon as I chose R for repair, it crashed BSOD. The USB external case has separate power. The drive crashed the original PC with only the drive and nothing else, on-board LAN, etc, no other drives or cards, so it can't be power issues. Other USB devices do not crash the PC with the new drive. The external drive bay works on the other machines, unless it has the suspect drive in it, so that rules the bay out. I haven't tried the Linux boot CD. The new AGP card is working on the new drive. There should not have been any malware on the drive as antivirus was up to date and just finished the latest Windows and Office updates. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
M Skabialka wrote:
The chkdsk was run on the wrong disk - my friend was trying something else! So I put the bad disk back in the machine and booted with the 6 XP boot floppies to run the chkdsk. It crashed as soon as I chose R for repair. I ran the extensive Western Digital diagnostics from a floppy and it reported no errors. After trying every possible way to get to read this disk I have given up - it is still under warranty and I have an RMA to return it. The data is history. Unless someone knows a good piece of recovery software that won't crash the computer as soon as it detects the drive... so far only the Western Digital software hasn't crashed. Mich I don't know how valuable your data is but you might want to look at Spinrite. The program has been around since the days of DOS and runs from a floppy. I last used it to repair a Windows XP boot drive that was crashing much like yours so that I could use Ghost to copy the drive. In a couple of hours the drive worked fine and I was able to make the copy. It won't work if the drive is truly dead, but when it starts it runs extensive diagnostics on the drive and will tell you if it will be able to run on the drive. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... It turns out this drive causes any Windows XP or 2000 computer to crash. I tried it as a secondary/slave drive on several desktops and on the USB enclosure on laptops and they all instantly crashed when they detected the USB drive, or BSOD if it was installed. I value my data on my Vista machine too much to try that. I downloaded the Western Digital diagnostics onto a bootable CD, installed only the suspect drive in a computer, and it ran and passed with an error code of 0000, which means no errors! My next effort to recover the data on the drive was to create a set of WinXP bootup floppies and was able to start a chkdsk /f before I left, which should be complete when I get back. Meanwhile the computer which developed the problem now has a new hard drive and Windows XP, but it did on one occasion right after install have the same BSOD as before with the ntfs.sys error but then it rebooted OK, and seems to have no problems now. To answer some other questions: When I tried to do a repair with the XP CD as soon as I chose R for repair, it crashed BSOD. The USB external case has separate power. The drive crashed the original PC with only the drive and nothing else, on-board LAN, etc, no other drives or cards, so it can't be power issues. Other USB devices do not crash the PC with the new drive. The external drive bay works on the other machines, unless it has the suspect drive in it, so that rules the bay out. I haven't tried the Linux boot CD. The new AGP card is working on the new drive. There should not have been any malware on the drive as antivirus was up to date and just finished the latest Windows and Office updates. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
M Skabialka wrote:
The chkdsk was run on the wrong disk - my friend was trying something else! So I put the bad disk back in the machine and booted with the 6 XP boot floppies to run the chkdsk. It crashed as soon as I chose R for repair. I ran the extensive Western Digital diagnostics from a floppy and it reported no errors. After trying every possible way to get to read this disk I have given up - it is still under warranty and I have an RMA to return it. The data is history. Unless someone knows a good piece of recovery software that won't crash the computer as soon as it detects the drive... so far only the Western Digital software hasn't crashed. Mich I don't know how valuable your data is but you might want to look at Spinrite. The program has been around since the days of DOS and runs from a floppy. I last used it to repair a Windows XP boot drive that was crashing much like yours so that I could use Ghost to copy the drive. In a couple of hours the drive worked fine and I was able to make the copy. It won't work if the drive is truly dead, but when it starts it runs extensive diagnostics on the drive and will tell you if it will be able to run on the drive. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... It turns out this drive causes any Windows XP or 2000 computer to crash. I tried it as a secondary/slave drive on several desktops and on the USB enclosure on laptops and they all instantly crashed when they detected the USB drive, or BSOD if it was installed. I value my data on my Vista machine too much to try that. I downloaded the Western Digital diagnostics onto a bootable CD, installed only the suspect drive in a computer, and it ran and passed with an error code of 0000, which means no errors! My next effort to recover the data on the drive was to create a set of WinXP bootup floppies and was able to start a chkdsk /f before I left, which should be complete when I get back. Meanwhile the computer which developed the problem now has a new hard drive and Windows XP, but it did on one occasion right after install have the same BSOD as before with the ntfs.sys error but then it rebooted OK, and seems to have no problems now. To answer some other questions: When I tried to do a repair with the XP CD as soon as I chose R for repair, it crashed BSOD. The USB external case has separate power. The drive crashed the original PC with only the drive and nothing else, on-board LAN, etc, no other drives or cards, so it can't be power issues. Other USB devices do not crash the PC with the new drive. The external drive bay works on the other machines, unless it has the suspect drive in it, so that rules the bay out. I haven't tried the Linux boot CD. The new AGP card is working on the new drive. There should not have been any malware on the drive as antivirus was up to date and just finished the latest Windows and Office updates. "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... A friend bought a new monitor for his XBox and wanted to also use it for his computer also but the computer only had a VGA port. He bought a new AGP video card with DVI-D interface and installed it into his 5 or 6 year old XP computer. It immediately crashed on boot, BSOD with errors about ntfs.sys, even when he put the old video card back, or even used the onboard video card. Set CMOS back to defaults, changed out the memory, CMOS battery, and other PCI cards. Finally took the hard drive out and put it in an external USB case and connected that to anothr XP machine which promptly crashed as soon as it recognized the USB connection. Tried it a couple of times more - crashed again each time with a generic MS message about possible driver problems. Until this point this PC was working great - what are some steps to getting this drive woking again, and saving data if ast all possible? I am wary about connecting the drive to a known good machine as I don't want it to kill it! Anti-virus was up-to-date. Mich |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
Computers are truly amazing machines. They are marvels of the modern
age. They in fact make the modern age what it is. Without computers we would not have access to the knowledge and comforts that we now take for granted.{{http://farm3.static.flickr.com/ 2440/3627413443_f863e751c0.jpg}} |
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New AGP card crashed computer - now what?
Computers are truly amazing machines. They are marvels of the modern
age. They in fact make the modern age what it is. Without computers we would not have access to the knowledge and comforts that we now take for granted.{{http://farm3.static.flickr.com/ 2440/3627413443_f863e751c0.jpg}} |
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