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Answer» Hi Started off with my old PC that has MCP6P M2+ MB with Athlon 7750 Dual core processor with about 160g hdd. After some trouble that I think was caused by a 4port usb unit I decided to format and start again. Formatted with secure erease - whole disc - now can't get anything to boot. I've tried 2 different drive units plus the FLOPPY and it just hangs after different lengths of time. I've tried with windows xp , Linux , hiren's boot cd and secure erease floppy to try partition but nothing is working. On windows I got to the - press any key - but pressing keys didn't work , secure erease hangs while checking the systems , Linux just stops during loading. I guess it something to do with when I formatted the drive but I'm stuck. Can anyone help point me in the right direction ? Thanks , Adam Quote I've tried 2 different drive units plus the floppy and it just hangs after different lengths of time.Does this mean you tried other hard drives other than the 160GB that had the initial problem, and why the floppy? The fact that a USB HUB would have made a system so corrupt that a rebuild was necessary has got me stumped as for its pretty much a passive device. Hi I've only tried the one harddrive. The '2 different drive units' are CD drives and the secure erase uses a floppy to work from. To be honest about the usb hub , I'm guessing - It was a powered unit and I'm guessing that something that was plugged through it has corrupted something in the windows program as it wouldn't run properly. At the time it was easier to build a new PC than to sort it out , I'm now trying to sort it. Hi Bit of an update , Tried a second hard drive - same results Tried to load mini windows xp from usb - would only get so far then crashed - blue screen Ran memtest - showed a lot of failed sections but it was also showing ; processor - ecc/eec ? - disabled. Went into the bios and did a 'load OPTIMIZED settings' wondering if the processor had been turned off somehow , still got the same results. What I'm now thinking is maybe the processor has packed in , so stopping everything from 'talking' with each other ? If anyone nows if I'm barking up the wrong tree please let me know or does it sound feesable ? Thanks , AdamBad STIK of RAM... You will have to do MemTest on each one to figure out which one it is... Let it run at least 1 hour on each. Hi Only 1 stick in it at the moment ( about 1 or 2 gb ) and the memtest was left a couple of hours , what do you think ? Thanks , AdamNo errors ? ? Test the other stik next for an hour or so... It may not be the RAM...but sure sounded as it was. Hi When I ran Memtest it was running for a couple of hour's ( but didn't come to a stop ) and it was showing a lot of failed area's but as it was also showing that the processor was disabled , I wasn't sure what to go for first. Couldn't find any setting in BIOS for turning the processor off , but could BAD ram do this ? Thanks , AdamMemTest runs until the User stops it...it's designed that way... Any errors at all and the RAM is bad ...you will continue to have issues until it's replaced. I wouldn't put too much worry into how MemTest is reporting the CPU...fix the RAM issue 1ST. Hi Thanks for the replies , I'll have to either take one of the ram sticks out of my other pc or get hold of a stick from somewhere and give it a try. Many thanks , Adam |
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