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Joined: Thu Mar 13 2008, 12:50AM
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I don't know if anyone has heard of this issue before, but apparently if you put an XP computer to sleep with some wireless cards, it may not boot the next time you restart it. Well, at least now I can say that it is true.
Me, being the idiot I am, and not learning from my friends' experiences, put a wireless card in my nice gaming rig a few months back, getting rid of the 50' long cable snaking to my router. However, I forgot about that little issue, and now it seems that the boot sector is now corrupted on my install. Strangely, it was because XP randomly decided to go to sleep in the middle of a match of Battlefield 2. No warning, I just got a screen that it was going to sleep and down it went. It woke up fine, but when I went to turn my computer this morning, it wouldn't start. I know several ways of resolving the issue (I repair my friends' computers quite often), but I never learned to fix this one in any easy, non-destructive way. I was wondering if anyone else here has had this problem and knows how to fix it simply without loosing files, and more importantly, my configuration. A windows repair is my first choice, though I've never had luck with it in the past.
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A PC has an almost infinite number of ways to fail so it is rare for the cause and effect to be clear. I have fixed thousands of problems like that and even with identical symptoms I have hardly ever found the same problem to be the cause.
The symptoms can be caused by a bad PSU, overheating CPU, overheating graphics card, bad RAM, broken harddrive and a few others.
Try the recovery console and the fixboot and fixmbr commands if you are pretty sure the boot sector is corrupted.
Remember to read the instructions before you do anything.
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Joined: Thu Mar 13 2008, 12:50AM
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Thanks for the help guys. I tried to get into the repair console last night, and found that even with trying two different CDs, it didnt think the system disk was in the drive. Checking for the drive boot order in the BIOS, I found that "Removable Media" was set to all three boot options. So, I changed it to CD first, HD next and RM third. Still didn't fix the problem. Then I realized that the DVD drive wasn't showing up in the BIOS at all, along with a good many other options that I knew were wrong. So I did a good old fashioned BIOS reset, re-entered my settings, and voila! It works!
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Joined: Fri Jan 25 2008, 05:22AM
Location: Maryland, USA
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If you don't want the err... Partyvan showing up, just hook the HD up to another comp as an external and either copy files and reformat, install another OS and boot with that or repair the boot sector somehow.
Yes I know the Partyvan doesn't generally care about the users but...
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