Hi,
I'm having a problem with my winxp pc at home. I built it a while ago and all was well, but its been slowly degrading over time (2+ years). The floppy drive stopped working almost a year ago, but when i installed winxp home, it installed fine and just disabled the floppy. When i went to finally disconnect it physically, I now get a bsod after booting up windows. it progresses to the loading screen, and looks like it will boot up, but then it flashes a bsod. I lost my original winxp disk, but i did make a copy of it (it was an oem), but my copy has a corrupt firewire module (or whatever it is, eitherway, the disk is bad and i can't boot up to it).
I have a feeling that i have some faulty hardware going on, but booting to knoppix showed ram was fine (memtest 5 times). I also moved the harddrive to my slackware box and backed everything up, but i'm not sure how to determine if other components of the system are bad (other than buying other parts and testing that way, but i figure there are too many variables by that method). could this be just a windows error (since it does boot up mostly)? if so, can i get a friends windows cd to boot to and run repair tools (i have an oem version, what if they use corporate [i know i know, i'm trying to convince them to buy it], or retail)?
Thanks for any help, i've been messing with it with little success
I'm having a problem with my winxp pc at home. I built it a while ago and all was well, but its been slowly degrading over time (2+ years). The floppy drive stopped working almost a year ago, but when i installed winxp home, it installed fine and just disabled the floppy. When i went to finally disconnect it physically, I now get a bsod after booting up windows. it progresses to the loading screen, and looks like it will boot up, but then it flashes a bsod. I lost my original winxp disk, but i did make a copy of it (it was an oem), but my copy has a corrupt firewire module (or whatever it is, eitherway, the disk is bad and i can't boot up to it).
I have a feeling that i have some faulty hardware going on, but booting to knoppix showed ram was fine (memtest 5 times). I also moved the harddrive to my slackware box and backed everything up, but i'm not sure how to determine if other components of the system are bad (other than buying other parts and testing that way, but i figure there are too many variables by that method). could this be just a windows error (since it does boot up mostly)? if so, can i get a friends windows cd to boot to and run repair tools (i have an oem version, what if they use corporate [i know i know, i'm trying to convince them to buy it], or retail)?
Thanks for any help, i've been messing with it with little success
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