Machine wont boot I'm stumped...

SteamWake · 10-10-10, 09:47 AM

So I was sitting here talking with my wife with the desktop sitting idle at the desktop. No programs running when BEEP ... what in tha ?? The machine decided to re-boot itself except now it wont boot.

It goes through the POST and BIOS then halts at a black screen with a blinking cursor.

I can get it to boot from the XP disk and get to recovery console run a chkdsk and fixboot. Attempt to boot from the C:/ drive again and same results. Hangs at a _ prompt.

Unfortunatly I dont have another PCIE video card to swap out to see if that is the issue. But I'm thinking it is the fixed disk but I'm not sure.

If it was the disk why would it all of a sudden reboot itself while idle?

10-10-10, 09:47 AM	#1
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Machine wont boot I'm stumped... So I was sitting here talking with my wife with the desktop sitting idle at the desktop. No programs running when BEEP ... what in tha ?? The machine decided to re-boot itself except now it wont boot. It goes through the POST and BIOS then halts at a black screen with a blinking cursor. I can get it to boot from the XP disk and get to recovery console run a chkdsk and fixboot. Attempt to boot from the C:/ drive again and same results. Hangs at a _ prompt. Unfortunatly I dont have another PCIE video card to swap out to see if that is the issue. But I'm thinking it is the fixed disk but I'm not sure. If it was the disk why would it all of a sudden reboot itself while idle? __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648