- Jan 25, 2001
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I am working on a friends Dell 9200 that started getting a BSOD "unmountable Boot Volume" ....seemed easy enough, looks like the boot sector is fried, so I tried a Windows repair and it would BSOD before I got to the repair area. Ok...new drive in order.
New 250GB Seagate sata, Windows loads to a point then gives me a severe BSOD and goes into constant reboot+fail mode. I do a memory check (try 4 differant sticks, all the same result)
Ok, sorry buddy, looks like your motherboard has gone wonky and corrupted the OS data on the way....and preventing a new OS install????
I order a new mobo and installed that last night, same thing, same exact thing in every way.
I went thru all the BIOS settings, turned off one of the cores....nothing I do has any effect, the only thing I haven't tried is replacing the processor (2.13 Dual core) I do have a similar processor in another computer so I'm going to try it next but I wanted to see if anyone had any clues before I did.
Thanks for any ideas.
New 250GB Seagate sata, Windows loads to a point then gives me a severe BSOD and goes into constant reboot+fail mode. I do a memory check (try 4 differant sticks, all the same result)
Ok, sorry buddy, looks like your motherboard has gone wonky and corrupted the OS data on the way....and preventing a new OS install????
I order a new mobo and installed that last night, same thing, same exact thing in every way.
I went thru all the BIOS settings, turned off one of the cores....nothing I do has any effect, the only thing I haven't tried is replacing the processor (2.13 Dual core) I do have a similar processor in another computer so I'm going to try it next but I wanted to see if anyone had any clues before I did.
Thanks for any ideas.