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mcarlsonus · 11-12-07, 05:56 PM

Think you had a catastrophic sub-standard power supply failure that caused an internal spike. It went to the point of first resistance. In this case, the leading 7600 card.
I've been off too. After deciding to hook up the old 3200+, 2GB, 4200RPM IDE HD, and seeing how SH4 looked on it (NOT good!), I went back to the "major leaguer" which now reports "BOOTMGR not found..." Haven't been able to get around that, no matter what I've tried (it now sees the C: drive as just another removable drive !)
A NEW lesson to Vista users: apparently when one uses a thumb/zip drive to utilize ReadyBoost, when one powers down the system and unplugs it, the "reactivation" results in the machine seeing the ReadyBoost drive as the boot drive. In short, I was using a 4GB, ReadyBoost-approved USB dongle to increase boot speed. It worked fine - until I unplugged the thing. Now the machine's riding the short bus...

11-12-07, 05:56 PM	#109
mcarlsonus Weps Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 362 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	My two cents...(about what's it worth!) Think you had a catastrophic sub-standard power supply failure that caused an internal spike. It went to the point of first resistance. In this case, the leading 7600 card. I've been off too. After deciding to hook up the old 3200+, 2GB, 4200RPM IDE HD, and seeing how SH4 looked on it (NOT good!), I went back to the "major leaguer" which now reports "BOOTMGR not found..." Haven't been able to get around that, no matter what I've tried (it now sees the C: drive as just another removable drive !) A NEW lesson to Vista users: apparently when one uses a thumb/zip drive to utilize ReadyBoost, when one powers down the system and unplugs it, the "reactivation" results in the machine seeing the ReadyBoost drive as the boot drive. In short, I was using a 4GB, ReadyBoost-approved USB dongle to increase boot speed. It worked fine - until I unplugged the thing. Now the machine's riding the short bus...