Can't Restart - whats wrong? harddrive?

Asus boards usually have an option of either F5, or F7 to reset BIOS to the
Default values. After that, the only change you might need to make is the
Boot order. Windows 9x couldn't have cared less is the BIOS settings were
all over the map; XP does.

Im not sure if I made this clear.
When my original harddrive died (the 40 gig one) it was running XP
also.

I have the asus A7V266-E motherboard, but upgraded the BIOS.
Actually I dont even know how to update the BIOS.

Asus has a Flash Utility that can do it while you run windows. Nothing could
be easier.

Should I do this anyway?

wrote:
Asus boards usually have an option of either F5, or F7 to reset BIOS
to the Default values. After that, the only change you might need to
make is the Boot order. Windows 9x couldn't have cared less is the
BIOS settings were all over the map; XP does.

Im not sure if I made this clear.
When my original harddrive died (the 40 gig one) it was running XP
also.

I missed that.

Try booting from the XP CD and take the first 'Repair' option to enter the
Recovery Console (if it asks for the Administrator password, use blank.
It's not asking for the one you may have set during the XP Installation).

Use the Format command in there. (Don't use the /Q switch.)
*FORMAT*
format drive: /Q /FS:file-system
Use this command to format the specified drive to the specified file system.
In the command syntax, /Q performs a quick format of the drive, drive is the
drive letter of the partition to format, and /FS:file-system specifies the
type of file system to use such as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. If you do not
specify a file system, the existing file system format is used if it is
available.



I have the asus A7V266-E motherboard, but upgraded the BIOS.
Actually I dont even know how to update the BIOS.

Asus has a Flash Utility that can do it while you run windows.
Nothing could be easier.

Should I do this anyway?

My thoery is to leave well enough alone. If you were running XP successfully
before...

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

If you look at the BIOS upgrades released for your board, they have been to
support the XP2200+ and then the XP2600+. I doubt you need either of them.

relic wrote:
wrote:
Asus boards usually have an option of either F5, or F7 to reset BIOS
to the Default values. After that, the only change you might need to
make is the Boot order. Windows 9x couldn't have cared less is the
BIOS settings were all over the map; XP does.

Im not sure if I made this clear.
When my original harddrive died (the 40 gig one) it was running XP
also.

I missed that.

Try booting from the XP CD and take the first 'Repair' option to
enter the Recovery Console (if it asks for the Administrator
password, use blank. It's not asking for the one you may have set
during the XP Installation).
Use the Format command in there. (Don't use the /Q switch.)
*FORMAT*
format drive: /Q /FS:file-system
^^^^
That doesn't come out too clear. "Format D: /FS:NTFS"


Use this command to format the specified drive to the specified file
system. In the command syntax, /Q performs a quick format of the
drive, drive is the drive letter of the partition to format, and
/FS:file-system specifies the type of file system to use such as FAT,
FAT32, or NTFS. If you do not specify a file system, the existing
file system format is used if it is available.



I have the asus A7V266-E motherboard, but upgraded the BIOS.
Actually I dont even know how to update the BIOS.

Asus has a Flash Utility that can do it while you run windows.
Nothing could be easier.

Should I do this anyway?

My thoery is to leave well enough alone. If you were running XP
successfully before...

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

If you look at the BIOS upgrades released for your board, they have
been to support the XP2200+ and then the XP2600+. I doubt you need
either of them.

Try booting from the XP CD and take the first 'Repair' option to
enter the Recovery Console (if it asks for the Administrator
password, use blank. It's not asking for the one you may have set
during the XP Installation).
Use the Format command in there. (Don't use the /Q switch.)
*FORMAT*
format drive: /Q /FS:file-system
^^^^
That doesn't come out too clear. "Format D: /FS:NTFS"

What drive am I formatting? Why?
Originally I just did the C, but I did the D a little while ago using
Disk Management.

Im thinking of just deleting the partition and doing a fresh install of
XP.

There has only been two changes between my old computer and this one.
1. New harddrive drive. - perhaps its a bad drive?
Perhaps the "rebooting" information is stored on a bad sector of the
drive? So xp cannot access it so it does not know how to restart....?
Make sense?

2. New XP cd. - I lost my original CD, so for this install I used my
friends CD.
Which is an Original (in other words, very old) XP Professional (which
is what I have, so my code is valid) which means it does not have SP2
or even SP1.
Could something be wrong with the disc?
But I did not notice any error message during the install.
True, xp might not be able to handle big drives, but Im having problems
restarting which is the C drive, which is only about 35 gigs.

So Im Lost right now, and not sure what the problem could be.
This sucks.

"Julie" wrote in message
...
Lez Pawl wrote:
wrote in message
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It's a common issue, started a few months back.
If you want to paddy you can format and start again, load the
updates one-by-one and make a note of when the issue occurs.

It started with the installation of XP, not a update.

It was a fresh format, so I put in the CD and it started the install
automatically, and when it got to the restart part it did not
restart, and since then it has not been able to restart.

Shutting down is fine though.


some in depth info

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_d...e_barriers.htm


Do you not understand the implication of the OP's statement, "BUT, I
partitioned the 320 into a 35 gig and whatever is left"?














so me Julie YOU answer his question.....................

wrote:
Try booting from the XP CD and take the first 'Repair' option to
enter the Recovery Console (if it asks for the Administrator
password, use blank. It's not asking for the one you may have set
during the XP Installation).
Use the Format command in there. (Don't use the /Q switch.)
*FORMAT*
format drive: /Q /FS:file-system
^^^^
That doesn't come out too clear. "Format D: /FS:NTFS"

What drive am I formatting? Why?
Originally I just did the C, but I did the D a little while ago using
Disk Management.

You said you did a Quick format because it died trying to do a full format.
What I suggested was to do a full format using the Format command from the
Recovery Console. However, forget it until you make a Slipstreamed XP/SP2
CD.


Im thinking of just deleting the partition and doing a fresh install
of XP.

There has only been two changes between my old computer and this one.
1. New harddrive drive. - perhaps its a bad drive?
Perhaps the "rebooting" information is stored on a bad sector of the
drive? So xp cannot access it so it does not know how to restart....?
Make sense?

No.


2. New XP cd. - I lost my original CD, so for this install I used my
friends CD.
Which is an Original (in other words, very old) XP Professional (which
is what I have, so my code is valid) which means it does not have SP2
or even SP1.
Could something be wrong with the disc?

Yes, 48-bit LBA support isn't there. Make a Slipstreamed CD!
http://kadaitcha.cx/slipstream.html

Reinstall using that.

But I did not notice any error message during the install.
True, xp might not be able to handle big drives, but Im having
problems restarting which is the C drive, which is only about 35 gigs.

So Im Lost right now, and not sure what the problem could be.
This sucks.

"Julie" wrote in message
...
Lez Pawl wrote:
"Julie" wrote in message
...
Lez Pawl wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
It's a common issue, started a few months back.
If you want to paddy you can format and start again, load the
updates one-by-one and make a note of when the issue occurs.

It started with the installation of XP, not a update.

It was a fresh format, so I put in the CD and it started the
install automatically, and when it got to the restart part it did
not restart, and since then it has not been able to restart.

Shutting down is fine though.


some in depth info

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_d...e_barriers.htm


Do you not understand the implication of the OP's statement, "BUT, I
partitioned the 320 into a 35 gig and whatever is left"?

so me Julie YOU answer his question.....................

In other words, you haven't been able to see the posts from relic which
_do_ answer his question? Nor have you been able to figure out that his
BIOS doesn't need to be updated because he is able to partition _all_ of
the disk?

That is why you are called an idiot, idiot.


















ohhhh me Julie bad week is it.............

Lez Pawl wrote:
"Julie" wrote in message
...
Lez Pawl wrote:
"Julie" wrote in message
...
Lez Pawl wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
It's a common issue, started a few months back.
If you want to paddy you can format and start again, load the
updates one-by-one and make a note of when the issue occurs.

It started with the installation of XP, not a update.

It was a fresh format, so I put in the CD and it started the
install automatically, and when it got to the restart part it did
not restart, and since then it has not been able to restart.

Shutting down is fine though.


some in depth info

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_d...e_barriers.htm


Do you not understand the implication of the OP's statement, "BUT,
I partitioned the 320 into a 35 gig and whatever is left"?

so me Julie YOU answer his question.....................

In other words, you haven't been able to see the posts from relic
which _do_ answer his question? Nor have you been able to figure out
that his BIOS doesn't need to be updated because he is able to
partition _all_ of the disk?

That is why you are called an idiot, idiot.

ohhhh me Julie bad week is it.............

That's quite a leap... from Julie's being very honest about you, all the way
to Julie having a bad week. Do you always attempt to blame your problems on
someone else?

"Damian" wrote in message
reenews.net...
Lez Pawl wrote:
"Julie" wrote in message
...
Lez Pawl wrote:
"Julie" wrote in message
...
Lez Pawl wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
It's a common issue, started a few months back.
If you want to paddy you can format and start again, load the
updates one-by-one and make a note of when the issue occurs.

It started with the installation of XP, not a update.

It was a fresh format, so I put in the CD and it started the
install automatically, and when it got to the restart part it did
not restart, and since then it has not been able to restart.

Shutting down is fine though.


some in depth info

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_d...e_barriers.htm


Do you not understand the implication of the OP's statement, "BUT,
I partitioned the 320 into a 35 gig and whatever is left"?

so me Julie YOU answer his question.....................

In other words, you haven't been able to see the posts from relic
which _do_ answer his question? Nor have you been able to figure out
that his BIOS doesn't need to be updated because he is able to
partition _all_ of the disk?

That is why you are called an idiot, idiot.

ohhhh me Julie bad week is it.............

That's quite a leap... from Julie's being very honest about you, all the
way to Julie having a bad week. Do you always attempt to blame your
problems on someone else?



no probs here me old mucker........

Are you using version 1011 bios update?

I have the same M/B in a computer for my son. If you never upgraded the
bios, that is where I would start.

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

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I have a computer that was pretty advance back in 2001, which means its
a low end model now.
A few weeks ago the harddrive died, so I just picked up a new 320 gig
drive.

Tonight I installed xp on it, but
During the installation at 2 points where it is supposed to restart, it
did not.
When I did windows update (3 times, critical updates, SP2, etc) - it
did not restart.
I tried manually restarting, it does not restart.

It hangs and does not do anything.
So I have to do a hard shut down.
When I boot it back up, its fine (as if the installs worked and it
restarted)

If I choose "Shutdown" it shuts down, but when I choose Restart, it
does not work.

What could be the problem?

1. Bad/weak power supply? I have a good power supply from 2001, but
maybe its not enough to handle the 320 gig harddrive? But then again,
previously I had a 40, 120 and 160 gig harddrives running at the
sametime without problem.

2. Bad harddrive? Its a 320 gig western digital, with a 1 year
warrenty.

3. Windows problem? But the first time it hung on the restart, it was
during the windows installation, so windows wasnt in totally yet.

4. Something else?

Thanks